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Duke Energy’s New 15-Year Plan Benefits Environment, Raises Electric Bills

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA)- South Carolina cannot avoid the growth that’s not only happening but is expected to continue in the years ahead. “When you talk to our folks who do this type of planning for a living and have for many years, they haven’t seen this type of projected growth in more than 30 years,” […]

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Republicans Want a Fight Over Energy and Climate? Bring it on

When Canadian wildfires recently sent dangerous and unhealthy clouds of smoke over large swaths of the country, a new round of articles made the case that this latest devastating and strange weather event was a result of climate change. Scientists and those who believe in the science of climate change have been passionately arguing their […]

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Chinese Solar Cell Maker Partners With Austrian Energy Firm for Sustainable Development

Chinese solar cell maker Aikosolar and Austrian energy company Burgenland Energie on Monday signed a letter of intent here to jointly boost the deployment of solar power in the Austrian state of Burgenland. The letter of intent covers the building of a joint innovation center and a visitor center in Burgenland as well as research […]

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Environment

CO2 Emissions may be Starting to Plateau, Says Global Energy Watchdog

IEA records rise of less than 1% from energy use in 2022, but 7% reduction needed every year this decade to meet emissions goal Global carbon dioxide emissions are still rising but may at least be reaching a plateau, research from the International Energy Agency has shown. CO2 from energy – by far the biggest source of emissions […]

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Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FINDS itself in a terrifying place today, witness to mass extinction, helpless to stop the march of industrial Homo sapiens, the pillage of habitat, the loss of […]

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Will Big Tech downsize clean energy commitments?

We are in the twilight of the golden age of tech. The headlines are everywhere. Big tech is downsizing (or rightsizing, depending who you ask). The days of hockey-stick profits seem behind us, with the sector losing $7.4 trillion in one year. Twitter, Google, Amazon and Meta are laying off thousands of employees. Say what you will about the […]

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Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts

It’s not just cars that will be going through energy transition in the years ahead. The parking lots where EVs recharge are a growing focus of construction efforts linked to climate change and carbon reduction. A law approved in France last month requires that parking lots with 80 or more spaces be covered by solar […]

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Why addressing climate change is crucial for our future – APC national youth leader

Dayo Israel, the national youth leader, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has tasked the world leaders, especially Europe and America, on the need to show serious commitment to climate funding obligations in Africa if the continent must meet the goals set on emissions and other actions identified to address the problem of the […]

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The world needs a Marshall Plan to fight climate change–and politicians are failing to show ambition. Business can’t afford to wait

The COP27 climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh were a missed opportunity. The pledge to keep global temperature rises under 1.5 degrees is just about alive, affirmed by G20 leaders in Bali–but there’s no clear plan to deliver it. The Sharm deal doesn’t include a commitment to phase out all fossil fuels or any guarantee that emissions will peak by […]

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From the farm: A blown engine with cattle aboard

Energy from the sun is a key part of the renewable energy mix but some think solar farms should not be built on farmland, BBC Politics East reports. Recently the then Prime Minister Liz Truss suggested agricultural land used for food should not be used for solar power. But environmentalists have told the BBC that […]

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