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With Fossils Crashing, Renewables Surging, Alberta and Saskatchewan Need a New Narrative
Across nearly a dozen pieces of news and analysis over the last week, a consistent theme is emerging: Canada’s fossil sector crash is accelerating, ... -
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Early Signs Show Biden Setting Up to Deliver on Bold Climate Action Agenda
It’s still the earliest of early days in the Biden administration’s transition process, with countless decisions to be made, cabinet appointments to be vetted, ... -
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China’s Solar Surge Leads to Glass Shortage
With glass supplies running short and prices correspondingly spiking, Chinese solar manufacturers are appealing to Beijing to approve new glass factories—an industry that hit ... -
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Woynillowicz: EV Job Creation Can Match Internal Combustion as Canada Moves to Ramp Up Production
It took just a month for Canada to move past its former status as “a speck on the global EV manufacturing map”, after Unifor ... -
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Big Ag Opts for Fast Weight Gain, Shorter Life as Solution to Cattle Methane Problem
The shorter a cow lives, the less time it will have to produce methane. Having done the math, emissions-wary beef producers in the U.S. ... -
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International ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Calls for End to Forced Obsolescence
A growing movement calling for the “right to repair” is finding deep, cross-partisan support, with advocates ranging from medical personnel desperate to repair broken ... -
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Japan’s Plan for Carbon Neutrality by 2050 Leans Into ‘High-Efficiency’ Coal, CCS, Nuclear
“High-efficiency” coal plants, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear generation are cornerstones of the highly-touted plan for carbon neutrality by 2050 that Japanese Prime ... -
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Net-Zero Commitment Could Bring Australia $63 Billion in New Investment by 2025
A commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050 from Australia’s notoriously coal-friendly government would unlock A$63 billion in new investment over the next five years ... -
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Global Hydrogen Race Will Be Only Won by Cleanest Producers, Smith and Petrevan Predict
As Canada moves to stake its claim in the burgeoning hydrogen fuel market—a claim that includes Alberta’s recent bet on “blue hydrogen”—policy experts are ... -
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Wilkinson Interested in Carbon Border Adjustment as Analysts Scan Biden Trade Policies
The Trudeau government is expressing warmer interest in carbon border adjustments (CBAs) as a way to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions without putting Canadian ... -
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Building Retrofits, Clean Transportation Lead Green Budget Coalition’s 2020 Recommendations
The Green Budget Coalition is calling on the Trudeau government to include C$10 billion for building energy retrofits, $4.8 billion for clean transportation, $4.8 ... -
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Federal, Ontario Governments Announce $590 Million for Ford’s Oakville EV Plant
The federal and Ontario governments will each invest C$295 million to help Ford Motor Co. retool its assembly plant in Oakville to make electric ... -
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California Internal Combustion Vehicle Ban Will Help Automakers, Boost the Grid, RMI Says
California’s decision to ban sales of internal combustion vehicles after 2035 is good news for both automakers and the electricity grid, Rocky Mountain Institute ... -
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Analysts See ‘Green’ Hydrogen Costing Less than Fossil-Sourced Product within a Decade
While the definition of “clean” or “green” hydrogen is still distinctly fuzzy, the truly green variety produced from wind- or solar-generated electricity could become ... -
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Chinese Chemical Plants Begin Capturing Nitrous Oxide, a Super-Pollutant 300 Times More Potent than CO2
An industrial gas company in China has taken a “noteworthy step” to capture and reuse nitrous oxide, a climate pollutant that is 300 times ...
