sustainable development
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Trash-to-Gas Isn’t a Fairytale Climate Solution
It seems like magic: In millions of operations scattered around the globe (some big, some very small), waste is transformed into energy. Landfilled garbage, sewage, and farm effluent are processed into burnable biogas, which can be used as a substitute for natural gas, a fossil fuel. Unlike natural gas, which sits in limited supply deep…
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EV Prices Are Trending in the Wrong Direction
The price of electric cars is climbing in China. Companies that make and sell EVs in the world’s biggest car market have raised prices across their electric lineups twice since February, as Bloomberg reports. Carmakers claim EV prices are going up because the cost of raw materials has suddenly increased. And the upward trend of…
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Texas Climate Deniers Are Trying to Kill a Massachusetts Wind Farm
A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it’s real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere.
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United Flies First Plane With 100% ‘Sustainable Aviation Fuel’
United Airlines made aviation history this week, completing a flight between Chicago and Washington DC, using a slightly less environmentally disastrous fuel source — or, as they would prefer you call it, “sustainable aviation fuel” or SAF in aviationspeak.