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‘Battery Swapping’ Could Boost EV Uptake
Biden administration officials gearing up to fund 500,000 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles might be better off investing in the mechanics of “battery swapping”, ... -
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Biden Jobs, Infrastructure Plan Aims to ‘Turbocharge the Transition’ Off Fossil Fuels
U.S. President Joe Biden travelled to Pittsburgh last Wednesday to unveil a US$2-billion jobs and infrastructure plan that includes a 10-year, $650-billion commitment to ... -
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New Legislation Requires Massachusetts to Reach Net-Zero by 2050
Two months after he vetoed a landmark climate bill, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) has signed something very similar, with a 2050 net-zero target ... -
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Don’t Let Nuclear Boosterism, ‘Hydrogen Hype’ Distract from Practical Renewable Alternatives, Analyst Urges
Nuclear boosterism and “hydrogen hype” mustn’t distract countries from the renewable energy technologies that can actually deliver on a 2050 target for net-zero greenhouse ... -
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‘Conventional Energy Bubble’ Could Cost Utilities $1 Trillion as Cheap Renewables Undercut Fossil Plants
Power utilities are on track to lose US$1 trillion over the next 15 years after analysts, agencies, and bankers grossly overestimated the revenue they’re ... -
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Initial Economic Gains Mustn’t Deter Freeland’s Green Recovery Budget, Analysts Warn
The federal government could be at risk of squandering its best opportunity at a just, green transition if a rosy February jobs report, the ... -
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Lion Electric to Build $185-Million Battery Plant in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
Electric school bus and truck manufacturer Lion Electric is building a new C$185-million battery pack assembly plant near its headquarters in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, after ... -
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Transition to Electric Cars Need Not Demand a Toxic Lithium Legacy
Despite widespread assumptions, lithium and rare earth minerals like coltan—and all the environmental and social harms that attend their extraction and use—are not necessarily ... -
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$565-Billion House Bill Aims to Cut U.S. Emissions 50% by 2030, Decarbonize Grid by 2035
The United States would cut its greenhouse gas emissions 50% from 2005 levels by 2030 and count on a clean electricity standard to achieve ... -
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Windsor, Ontario Courts Investor for $2-Billion Battery Manufacturing Plant
The auto manufacturing town of Windsor, Ontario is angling for a C$2-billion investment in an electric vehicle manufacturing plant, Canada’s first, that would create ... -
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Western Australia Plans 1,000 New Microgrids Combining Solar+Storage+Hydrogen
The Labor government in Western Australia expects to save hundreds of millions of dollars with a A$259-million, five-year green manufacturing plan that will see ... -
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‘There’s a Lot to Rebuild’, Trudeau Tells Biden, as Canada, U.S. Map Climate Partnership
Accelerating climate ambition and building back better are two of the six components of a new U.S.-Canada partnership roadmap that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ... -
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Texas Blackouts Highlight Disaster Risk for U.S., Canadian Utilities
With many Texans still scrambling to recover from a week of freezing cold weather, power blackouts, and water shortages, early analysis in the United ... -
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BREAKING: Texas Was ‘Seconds and Minutes’ from Months-Long Blackouts, Grid Operator Admits
At least 47 people were dead, hundreds of thousands of homes were still without power, half of the state was under a boil water ... -
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Trudeau Touts Hydropower Exports as U.S. Looks to Canadian Dams for Electricity Storage
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking to promote hydropower exports to the United States, as one response to President Joe Biden’s commitment to decarbonize ...
