5 Trends Are Ushering In The Age Of Electric Vehicles: BloombergNEF

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:30:09 +0000

At the BloombergNEF Summit in San Francisco, California last week, BNEF’s Colin McKerracher made a case for electric vehicles finally reaching the “end of the beginning” as businesses and consumers recognize and begin to embrace electric vehicles en masse

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105 Cities Have Made The Global CDP 2019 “A” List For Climate Action

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:30:33 +0000

The increase in CDP A-list cities from 43 in 2018 to 105 in 2019 is encouraging. More climate action is being taken globally at more levels of government than ever before

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Delta Airlines’ Claim Of Becoming Carbon Neutral In March Is Disingenuous At Best

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 03:00:04 +0000

The Delta CEO said that the company isn’t going to decarbonize, it isn’t going to buy offsets, and they are going to spend about $100 million a year moving chairs around on the deck of the Hindenburg

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The Exxon Plant Near My House Caught Fire

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 06:16:51 +0000

Exxon PlantThe Exxon plant here in Baton Rouge has caught fire this — and even though officials say there wasn’t an explosion, several witnesses reported hearing one. I also heard one and I live just 5 miles away

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Shell & Greenlots Install First Heavy Duty EV Charging Hub In Fontana

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:54:21 +0000

Shell’s Greenlots has partnered with Volvo as part of its LIGHTS electric trucking program to install the first of four planned heavy duty fleet charging stations

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Trump Wants To Plant 1 Trillion Trees — After Destroying Clean Air, Clean Water, & Human Health Protections

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:15:45 +0000

President Trump wants to plant one trillion trees to protect the environment. In his State of the Union Address, he announced that the United States would join the One Trillion Trees Initiative

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A Gas Station!

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:17:01 +0000

There was a building on a relatively busy corner leading out of town that could never stay in business. From the time I was a kid, it kept changing and opening as something else — a restaurant, a trading post, an antique store, a restaurant several times, and probably a few other businesses over the years that I can’t even remember

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Update: Help CleanTechnica Create A New Section — Key Renewable Energy Articles

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:30:17 +0000

Last week we asked for your help in creating our new Key Articles section, and you delivered. There were many comments with excellent suggestions, and plenty of helpful commentary. In addition, an unexpected dynamic came along — good suggestions reminded me of other articles that also needed to be included

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In-Depth Renewable Energy 101 & Climate Change 101 — Thorough Beginner’s Guide

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:00:44 +0000

climate changeThis section is meant as a primer to the world of climate change and renewable energy. CleanTechnica has posted over 40,000 articles since its inception in 2008, however, reading all of them would take months, so the following is a distillation of the key pieces of the puzzle

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Malmö, Sweden Goes Electric With An Order For 60 Fully Electric Buses From Volvo

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:00:56 +0000

Volvo electric busVolvo is making a significant dent in transit emissions in its home country of Sweden with the announcement that it has received an order for 60 fully electric articulated buses from the transit operator in Malmö, Sweden

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