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What the growing environmental job market means for economic recovery

Despite our economy being hard hit by COVID-19, the environmental...

source: By Jane Marsh

This Vermont utility is revolutionizing its power grid to fight climate change. Will the rest of the country follow suit?

Visitors entering a code-locked central control room at Green Mountain Power (GMP)’s Colchester, Vt., headquarters instinctively lower their voices, whispering in deference to operators relaying orders...

source: TIME

How to win big for the climate: rein in the 'super polluters'

A crackdown on a limited number of ‘hyper-emitting’ power plants could yield outsize cuts in the carbon emissions resulting from global electricity generation. Don Grant and his colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder,...

source: Nature.com

Elon Musk: It's possible to make 'extremely safe' nuclear plants

Elon Musk is “pro nuclear.” So said Musk while talking about making bitcoin mining sustainable at The B-Word conference hosted by the Crypto Council for Innovation. Nuclear energy is considered “clean energy”...

source: CNBC-TV

Armenia to build its biggest solar power plant

The Armenian government is looking to expand the country’s renewable energy capacity with an ambitious plan to build two new solar power plants. This month, the government finalized a deal with United Arab Emirates-based renewable energy company Masdar to build the...

source: Eurasianet

'We see the threat:' EPA gives Jackson timeline to begin addressing city's water issues

City of Jackson officials have eight days to submit a plan to the Environmental Protection Agency for how it will repair its water systems, six years after the city's water was deemed largely unsafe to drink. The city and...

source: Clarion Ledger

'Burden falls on exposed people' as EPA weighs PFAS rules

Breast cancer doesn’t run in his family. But that didn’t prevent Tom Kennedy’s diagnosis with the disease five years ago, and it won’t stop the cancer, now in his brain and spine, from killing him. Kennedy, 49, blames the tap water he drank for more...

source: E&E News

EPA fines PM Properties for violations related to underground storage tanks in northern Virginia

PM Properties, Inc. will pay $27,483 in penalties for environmental violations associated with underground storage tanks of fuel at CrossAmerica Partners fuel stations in Verona and Weyers Cave, Virginia, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency announced.

source: EPA.gov

This mask for cows isn't for COVID - it helps reduce methane emissions

In a year, a single cow can belch around 220 pounds of methane, a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas. (A much smaller amount is emitted in cow farts.) There are a billion cattle on the planet—and over the next few decades,...

source: Fast Company

Men's spending habits result in more carbon emissions than women's, a study finds

When it comes to climate change, male consumers may get a bit more of the blame than their female counterparts. Men spend their money on greenhouse gas-emitting goods and services, such as meat and fuel, at a much higher rate than women, a new Swedish study found.

source: NPR

A record decline in carbon emissions

According to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21, global energy demand fell by an estimated by 4.5% in 2020. This is the largest annual decline since the end of World War II. The plunge in energy demand was the largest factor behind the estimated...

source: Forbes

Advocates say energy efficiency - not gas - offers Appalachia best economic prospects

Investment in energy efficiency should be part of a transition plan to improve the quality of life for counties in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania that have had lots of natural gas activity, according to new reports from the Ohio River Valley Institute.

source: Energy News Network

Lawmaker asks state to turn down energy company's request to draw water from Big Sewickley Creek for fracking

A lawmaker has asked Pennsylvania’s top environmental official to turn down a plan by PennEnergy Resources to draw as much as 3 million gallons of water a day from Big Sewickley Creek and one of its tributaries for natural gas drilling.

source: TribLive

Carlyle launches renewable-energy infrastructure unit

Private-equity giant Carlyle Group Inc. is launching a company to develop renewable-power-generation and storage projects in a push to reorient its energy business toward sustainable investments.

source: The Wall Street Journal

Largest US renewable developer plans transmission, solar surge

The world’s largest renewable developer is eyeing transmission project opportunities as the Biden administration focuses on adding large amounts of wind, solar and storage to the nation’s grid in the coming decades. “We’re...

source: E&E News

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What the growing environmental job market means for economic recovery

This Vermont utility is revolutionizing its power grid to fight climate change. Will the rest of the country follow suit?

How to win big for the climate: rein in the 'super polluters'

Elon Musk: It's possible to make 'extremely safe' nuclear plants

Armenia to build its biggest solar power plant

'We see the threat:' EPA gives Jackson timeline to begin addressing city's water issues

'Burden falls on exposed people' as EPA weighs PFAS rules

EPA fines PM Properties for violations related to underground storage tanks in northern Virginia

This mask for cows isn't for COVID - it helps reduce methane emissions

Men's spending habits result in more carbon emissions than women's, a study finds

A record decline in carbon emissions

Advocates say energy efficiency - not gas - offers Appalachia best economic prospects

Lawmaker asks state to turn down energy company's request to draw water from Big Sewickley Creek for fracking

Carlyle launches renewable-energy infrastructure unit

Largest US renewable developer plans transmission, solar surge

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