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Another US City Bans Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers

March 15, 2025 admin Agriculture, air quality, batteries, electrify everything, landscaping

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000

Gas-powered leaf blowers are a real problem for the environment. They discharge toxic chemicals and planet-warming emissions into the air and disrupt natural habitats. If you have any skepticism, a 2023 report makes it clear: the impacts of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment generated more than 600,000 tons of carbon … [continued]

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Another US City Bans Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers

March 15, 2025 admin Agriculture, air quality, batteries, electrify everything, landscaping

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000

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Another US City Bans Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers

March 15, 2025 admin Agriculture, air quality, batteries, electrify everything, landscaping

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000

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Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Isn’t Really A Clean Burning Fuel

March 14, 2025 admin air quality, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, Energy, Energy Storage, HEALTH, hydrogen, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:08:48 +0000

Hydrogen is often celebrated as the fuel of the future, heralded as a perfect solution that emits no carbon dioxide (CO₂) when burned or utilized in fuel cells. Yet, while technically correct — hydrogen itself emits no carbon dioxide upon combustion — the framing of hydrogen as a fully ‘clean’ … [continued]

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25 New Electric School Buses Unveiled At Compton, California School District

March 12, 2025 admin air quality, California, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:35:46 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, the Compton Unified School District and Durham School Services announced the unveiling of a new fleet of 25 electric school buses. Some of the best sustainable transportation stories are the ones about diesel and gas buses being replaced by fully electric ones. Diesel and gas … [continued]

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Fighting for Breath: Wildfire Smoke, Climate Change, & the Urgency of Adaptation

March 11, 2025 admin Air pollution, air quality, buildings, climate change, HEALTH, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:55:28 +0000

Wildfire season is arriving earlier, lasting longer, and burning more intensely than ever before. Communities that once thought of wildfires as rare, late-summer events now find themselves choking on smoke as early as spring. Per FireSmoke.ca, there are over 200 wildfires burning in North America already, and it’s the beginning … [continued]

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The End of Diesel: Europe’s Buses Are Going Fully Electric — Fast

March 11, 2025 admin air quality, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy, EU, Europe, ev sales, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:50:55 +0000

Electric buses are transforming Europe’s public transportation system faster than many policymakers expected. In 2024, nearly half of all new city buses sold in the European Union were battery-electric, according to a new report from Transport & Environment (T&E). This shift marks a decisive moment in the debate over how … [continued]

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Trump’s Tariffs Are An Economic & Environmental Boomerang

March 11, 2025 admin air quality, batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, tariffs, trump tariffs, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:20:52 +0000

The first Trump trade war was a disaster for US cleantech, and it looks like 2025 is setting up to be an encore performance. Between 2018 and 2020, Trump’s tariffs on solar panels cost the US an estimated 10.5 GW of lost solar capacity, delaying the transition to clean energy … [continued]

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Hydrogen Is An Indirect Greenhouse Gas So Now Hydrogen Proponents Are Denying It

March 2, 2025 admin air quality, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Europe, hydrogen, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:46:41 +0000

Hydrogen has been touted as a clean energy source, a critical pillar of decarbonization efforts in sectors from heavy industry to transportation. Policymakers and industry leaders alike have been singing its praises for decades, envisioning a future powered by green hydrogen, electrolyzers, and pipelines feeding a global energy transition. But … [continued]

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