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Cut U.S. Emissions 50% by 2030, Over 300 Corporate Leaders Urge Biden
With U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate leaders’ summit just over a week away, more than 300 major corporations are urging the White House to ... -
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U.S. Prepares for Another ‘Devastating’ Fire Season
From California to Wisconsin, U.S. policy-makers are putting dollars into pre-emptive action and more “boots on the ground” as a lower-than-normal snowpack portends a ... -
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‘Chaotic’ UK Retrofit Program a Cautionary Tale for Trudeau, Biden
A failed attempt at a building energy retrofit program in the United Kingdom could offer lessons for governments in Canada and the United States ... -
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Fossils Could Replace Two of 10 Workers with Robots in a Decade, Save $7B Per Year in Wages
At least two out of 10 fossil workers around the world involved in drilling, operational support, or maintenance could be replaced by robots over ... -
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U.S. Army Corps Declines to Close Dakota Access Pipeline Despite Missing Permit
Indigenous leaders and progressive Democrats are urging the Biden administration to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ... -
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Inuit Party Election Win in Greenland Casts Doubt on Rare-Earth Mining Project
Greenland’s plans for a massive rare-earth metals mine have been thrown doubt with the recent election victory of Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), a party firmly ... -
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Prepare to Lose 450,000 Fossil Jobs in Transition Off Carbon, TD Warns
As many as 450,000 of the 600,000 people now employed directly or indirectly by the Canadian fossil industry could be looking for new jobs ... -
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62% of Big Five Bank Directors Have Ties to ‘Climate-Conflicted’ Industries, New Database Shows
Nearly two-thirds of the directors of Canada’s five biggest banks have past or present ties to high-carbon industries, making “climate-conflicted” bank directors a far ... -
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Global Forest Loss Accelerates Despite Pandemic Restrictions
Two recent studies are offering new evidence that the carbon-sequestering forests required to hold average global warming to 1.5°C are in peril. -
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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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New Start-Up Aims to Build U.S. Energy Equity One Neighbourhood at a Time
To be poor and a person of colour in the United States all too often means living with energy poverty and its associated health ... -
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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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‘No Means No’, Indigenous Groups Say, as Sweden Cancels Solar Geoengineering Experiment
The Canadian scientist behind a controversial attempt to combat climate change by dimming the sunlight reaching the Earth is vowing to keep at it ... -
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Record 260 GW of New Capacity in 2020 ‘Marks Start of the Decade of Renewables’, IRENA Says
Renewable energy producers around the world installed a record 260 billion watts of new capacity last year, with China and the United States setting ... -
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U.S. Looks to Canada as ‘51st State’ for Supplies of Electric Vehicle Minerals
Less than two weeks before U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a US$2-trillion infrastructure plan with heavy emphasis on electric cars and clean electricity, U.S. ...
