The small North Carolina town of Carrboro has initiated the country’s first climate accountability litigation against an electric utility. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, claims Duke Energy waged a “deception campaign” in order to obscure the climate hazards of fossil fuels. This led to delayed action in curbing planet-warming emissions, which caused the costs of […]
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 50th annual Automotive Trends Report, model year (MY) 2023 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles have led to an 11% decline in carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles. The report noted that fuel economy reached a record high and greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles reached a record […]
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed his intention to do away with what he has referred to as the “electric vehicle mandate” — a federal tax credit of $7,500 for people who purchase electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States, reported AFP. If Trump decides to end the EV rebate, California Governor Gavin Newsom has pledged […]
Solarcycle, a company handling end-of-life solar panels, is opening a new solar panel recycling facility in Cedartown, Georgia. According to the company, the upcoming 5-gigawatt facility will span 255,000 square feet and will eventually have the capacity to recycle around 10 million old solar panels annually, or as much as 30% of the country’s retired […]
Cruise ships are producing higher levels of toxic air pollutants than they did before the pandemic, according to a new study by the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E). The analysis, “Europe’s luxury cruise ships emit as much toxic sulphur as 1bn cars,” found that despite the introduction of a sulphur cap four years […]
In an agreement struck during overtime at the United Nations COP29 Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday, the world’s wealthiest nations agreed to a combined annual contribution of at least $300 billion to assist developing nations with tackling the impacts of the climate crisis. Developing nations had sought more than $1 trillion per year […]
The COP29 United Nations Climate Conference extended into overtime on Friday, as the offer by the world’s richest countries of $250 billion annually by 2035 to assist poorer nations struggling with the most dire effects of the climate crisis was rejected as inadequate. “I’m so mad. It’s ridiculous. Just ridiculous,” said Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, […]
According to a new analysis from think tank Ember, evidence is growing that the planet is nearing a global peak in fossil fuel emissions from the power sector. Half the economies in the world are making the transition away from fossil fuel use, and are five or more years past a peak in fossil power […]
In Switzerland, highway noise barriers surrounding the Oberland Autobahn near Wangen-Brüttisellen will soon provide solar power. Last year, Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office made the surfaces of highway noise barriers free and set out to cover 350 of them in solar panels. Swiss officials estimated that the arrays could generate 100 gigawatt hours of clean energy […]
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