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US EPA Funds Brownfields Job Training Across the Country

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments green economy, green jobs, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:40:44 +0000

One of Hillary Clinton’s “big mistakes” in the 2016 presidential campaign was admitting that the coal industry could not and would not be revived, but saying that she’d put programs in place to help with retraining and to help coal workers find new jobs. That was not a popular thing … [continued]

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It’s Against The Law In Canada To Call Hydrogen Buses Zero Emissions

December 21, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:42:07 +0000

In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]

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New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric bus, electric buses, electric mass transit, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, new flyer, Oil, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

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Big Tata Power Clean Energy Projects in Bhutan & India

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments Bhutan, clean power, green economy, hydroelectric, India, investment, Solar energy, tata power, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:42:03 +0000

India has been a major market for clean energy deployment — solar energy and wind energy deployment. It’s been much less successful stimulating the electric vehicle market. Tata Group is India’s largest business conglomerate. It’s enormous, selling various products and services in more than 160 countries. One of its companies … [continued]

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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000

Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]

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Stellantis & CATL’s New JV Will Invest Up To €4B To Build Large-Scale LFP Battery Plant In Spain

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery factories, catl, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, green economy, lithium ferrous phosphate (lfp), Manufacturing, Spain, stellantis

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:10:39 +0000

Stellantis and CATL recently announced a strategic agreement for a joint venture that could see up to €4.1 billion invested in the construction of a large-scale European lithium iron phosphate battery plant. The facility, which they say will be constructed in multiple phases in Zaragoza, Spain, is intended to eventually … [continued]

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The Sustainable Tires Of The Future Will Be Made With Plants (Again)

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments bridgestone, clean transport, dandelion rubber, Electric vehicles, ev tires, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, natural rubber, research, rubber, SCIENCE, supply chains, sustainable aircraft fuel, sustainable tires, tires, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:28:33 +0000

Sustainable tires could be made with butadiene derived from algae, food waste, and other renewable resources instead of petroleum, if a new research project pans out.

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Deloitte Complicit In Indefensible Brampton Hydrogen Bus CUTRIC Study

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, subsidies

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:57:13 +0000

In one of my articles related to the debacle that is Canada’s transit think tank CUTRIC’s guidance and modeling on bus fleet decarbonization, especially the Brampton fleet report that was off by about $1.5 billion on a $9 billion price tag, I shared the open letter to the Board I’d … [continued]

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Ford Gets $9.63 Billion Loan for BlueOval SK from US DOE

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments atvm, batteries, blueoval, clean transport, colleges, doe (loans), Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ford, ford blueoval sk battery park, green economy, green jobs, investing in america, Joe Biden, kentucky, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, lpo, Manufacturing, policy & politics, sk on, subsidies, tennessee, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:14:35 +0000

Donald Trump may be the president-elect in the United States, but tons of Joe Biden policy is still alive and getting rolled out. As I’ve written recently, there actually seems to be a sprint to get as much implemented before Trump and Republicans take over. One of those items is … [continued]

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Electric Vehicles Create More Jobs than Fossil Fuel Vehicles — Research

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ford, green economy, green jobs, research, SCIENCE, tesla, university of michigan

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:10:02 +0000

In a comment thread on an article yesterday, a reader made an important point. Although there’s a common narrative that a transition to electric vehicles will reduce jobs in the auto industry, the opposite is actually true! A University of Michigan study published earlier this year found that automotive assembly … [continued]

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