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WSJ: More Investment Money Than Ever Flows to Clean Energy
The Wall Street Journal reports: More Money is Flowing into Green Energy Than Ever Before. Here’s Why: Investors have been pouring more money than ever into renewable energies such as solar and wind. WSJ looks at how the pandemic, lower … Continue reading
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Tagged Green Energy, Investments, Joe Biden, Wall Street Journal
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Experts: Era of big battery storage has arrived
A lithium-ion battery that cost $1,183 in 2010 cost just $137 in 2020, the age of competitive big battery storage has arrived, according to Eric Gimon, a policy adviser for the think tank Energy Innovation. Speaking of two large battery projects, … Continue reading
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Tagged lithium-ion battery, Monterey Bay, storage
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Solar, Wind Power Boosted by Stimulus Bill
The Covid 19 Stimulus Bill, waiting for President Trump’s signature, has excellent Holiday Season news for clean energy and greenhouse reduction advocates. Here is what Inside Energy News writes: In what Senate leaders are hailing as the single biggest victory … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, hydrofluorocarbons, nonpartisan, offshore wind, Republicans, Stimulus Bill, Vineyard Wind 1, wind power
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Apple aims to produce autonomous, electric vehicle by 2024
Reuters reported earlier this week that: Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology. The story is continuing evidence that electric vehicles … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, autonomus, batteries, electric vehicles, EVs
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A Trend: Decarbonizing Atmosphere Will Boost Economy
We have been saying it for a while, but it is again reinforced in this Atlantic Magazines Weekly Planet newsletter: taken together…the world’s most powerful financial institutions believe that the future is decarbonized—and that, far from hurting the economy, climate action … Continue reading
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Tagged European Union, hydrofluorocarbons, US Congress
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Drawdown Conference, Networking Event Jan. 7-9
An upcoming virtual conference sponsored in part by Project Drawdown, from which the Sandwich Climate Action Coalition got its initial inspiration, is set for early January 2021. The international conference in full or part might be of interested to readers … Continue reading
Posted in Actions, Climate News, Meetings
Tagged climate conference, Energy Chapter, January 2021, NCSE, Project Drawdown, Sandwich Master Plan
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Need a job? Become an arborist
The New York Time reports that because of climate change and resulting distressed trees there is a need for more arborists in New England. Kristina Bezanson of UMass Amherst, who is among those training the next generation of arborists, said she … Continue reading
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Tagged arborists, jobs, New England, Trees
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Solar, Wind Power Company Tops Exxon in Value
The CBS News headline shouts out the good news: Wind and solar producer tops Exxon as most valuable U.S. energy company The Sandwich Climate Action Coalition continues to watch a trend away from fossil fuels to renewables; so this is … Continue reading
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Tagged clear energy, ExxonMobil, investing, NextEra Eneregy, renewables, wind power
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California to Phase Out Combustion Vehicle Sales by 2035
The Washington Post reports: California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state that created U.S. car culture, will stop selling gasoline-powered automobiles within 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday. The articled adds: Transportation currently accounts for the largest … Continue reading
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Tagged California, electric vehicles, Gavin Newsom
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NH Plan to Install EV Charging Stations on Hold
This from the Concord Monitor: Electric vehicle fans anticipating fast-charging stations along New Hampshire highways will have to wait some more. Plans to use $4.6 million from the VW “dieselgate” settlement to install DC fast chargers along 6 major routes … Continue reading
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Tagged electric vehicles
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