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Brazil charges Volkswagen unit with treating farm workers like slaves decades ago

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If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach …

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This isolated town in Maine could be a model for the clean energy future

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If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach …

This isolated town in Maine could be a model for the clean energy future Read More

Most of Europe is fine without Russian gas

10/10/2024 - Leave a Comment

The contract for Russian gas is toxic. The gas is replaceable. Let’s move on.  That’s the logic many European officials have adopted as a multibillion dollar deal keeping Russian gas …

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Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids

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By the time that Hurricane Helene made its way hundreds of miles inland on September 27, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm. But Helene remained unusually expansive and …

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Time for a switch

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Ellie Standen explains how levies break, dividends divide and it’s time to take back the power industry into the public sector.  Keir Starmer’s Labour Government has promised great things in …

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As Pennsylvania chooses the next president, its unions are choosing clean energy

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The U.S. presidential campaigns both have their eyes on the critical swing state of Pennsylvania — and Pennsylvania, as ever, has its eyes on energy. The state is the nation’s …

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Analysis: UK’s record-breaking renewable auction ‘will cut consumer bills’

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More than 130 wind, solar and tidal energy projects secured funding in the latest round of the “contracts for difference” (CfD) scheme, amounting to 9.6 gigawatts (GW) of capacity. This …

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One way a plastics treaty could help the Global South: Fund waste management

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If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend …

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Not politics, not interest rates: India’s surging economy at risk from water

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NEW DELHI, July 4 (Reuters) – In the Vivekananda Camp slum, adjacent to the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, communal taps supply brackish water for about two hours a day. …

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Power planting

28/06/202402/01/2025 - Leave a Comment

Rohini Kamal outlines the promises and problems for Bangladesh in building solar arrays on its farmland. More than 100 countries met in Dubai during November last year where they pledged …

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