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- Cultivated meat could help decarbonize food. Florida wants to ban it https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/florida-state-lawmakers-want-to-ban-cultivated-meat 2 comments
- Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-nuclear-power.html 712 comments
- The EU Is Pushing Forward With Its Decarbonization And EV Boost Plans, Despite U.S. Shakeups https://techcrawlr.com/the-eu-is-pushing-forward-with-its-decarbonization-and-ev-boost-plans-despite-u-s-shakeups/ 3 comments europe
- Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It. Multi-institution initiative led by NYU Tandon shows how electrification can make chemical manufacturing greener. https://spectrum.ieee.org/decarbonizing-chemical-industry 6 comments futurology
- This hockey legend is making buildings more energy-efficient | Mike Richter helped win a Stanley Cup for the New York Rangers. Now he’s bringing a new prize to town: decarbonized buildings. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/culture/this-hockey-legend-is-making-buildings-more-energy-efficient 7 comments upliftingnews
- Hydrogen Is Our Best Bet To Decarbonize Heavy Industry, U.S. Energy Secretary Says. “We want to be in a position to move eventually away from fossil fuels and to clean energy all the way. Renewables are not going to be able to get to the temperature necessary for decarbonizing heavy industry..." https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/10/17/hydrogen-is-our-best-bet-to-decarbonize-heavy-industry-us-energy-secretary-says/?h2fd= 265 comments energy
- Hydrogen Hype Sabotages Potential to Decarbonize. The seductive mirage of burying all the carbon dioxide from blue hydrogen is spun around the baseless claim that we can soon have a complete turnaround success for the consistently underperforming CCS technology. https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/03/25/opinion-hydrogen-hype-sabotages-potential-to-decarbonize/ 44 comments energy
- For America to Decarbonize, it Must Reindustrialize: Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/climate-law-manchin-industrial-policy/671183/ 2 comments economy
- Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government. For America to decarbonize, it must reindustrialize. Democrats hope to create an economy where the government doesn’t just help Americans buy green technologies; it also helps nurture the industries that produce that technology. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/climate-law-manchin-industrial-policy/671183/ 117 comments energy
- History’s Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen | Democrats in the Senate passed a bill that would, for the first time ever, use Congress’s power to push the U.S. to decarbonize. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/senate-climate-inflation-reduction-bill-passed/671073/ 10 comments climate
- The US Can Halve Its Emissions by 2030—if It Wants To. Renewables are now cheap enough for the country to rapidly decarbonize. https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-can-halve-its-emissions-by-2030-if-it-wants-to/ 152 comments energy
- Hydrogen’s Dead End: Home Heating. The fuel is ill-suited to this application---more expensive, dangerous, and energy-intensive than the alternative: electrification. Despite being touted by natural gas utilities, hydrogen is much less effective at decarbonizing buildings than is electricity. https://www.sightline.org/2022/05/24/hydrogens-dead-end-home-heating/ 55 comments energy
- Boeing Banks on Less Disruptive Plan to Clean Up Aviation. Pushes sustainable fuel over advanced technology. “You don’t have to change the airplane, you don’t have to change the airport infrastructure." Sustainable fuel will be aviation’s most-powerful decarbonization tool for years to come. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/boeing-banks-on-less-disruptive-plan-to-clean-up-aviation 7 comments energy
- Here is how GEN Group plans to decarbonize Slovenia https://balkangreenenergynews.com/here-is-how-gen-group-plans-to-decarbonize-slovenia/ 5 comments europe
- Valkyrie signs on to the Crypto Climate Accord, which seeks to decarbonize the global crypto industry by prioritizing climate stewardship and leading the industry to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 https://valkyriecryptocurrency.com/greenerbitcoin 2 comments cryptocurrency
- Climate Hype Might Be the Ticket to Decarbonization | Glasgow is a spectacle. That’s kind of the point. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/glasgow-climate-conference-paris-spectacle/620694/ 5 comments politics
- At COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport https://grist.org/transportation/at-cop26-pete-buttigieg-makes-a-pitch-to-decarbonize-american-transport/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=181602393&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mcsjPMq8hiumGX-BfezkAWMGus4pyRTkiww4ZeMs-y7tZ0RaghI1UVd2MMKrSNj0biBnFNPkxrrXJ8BvhS-B9zBGGkw&utm_content=181602393&utm_source=hs_email 2 comments politics
- This U.S. city just voted to decarbonize every single building | Following a common council vote, Ithaca, N.Y., is set to be the first city in the country to electrify its buildings with the help of BlocPower https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/11/03/ithaca-new-york-decarbonize-electrify/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjIyMTQyNjE3IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTYzNjAzNzcxOSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTYzNzI0NzMxOSwiaWF0IjoxNjM2MDM3NzE5LCJqdGkiOiI0Yjc0NTdlZS0zZDEyLTRjMjQtYjMwNC0xMWM5ZDQ5MjcxZGIiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vY2xpbWF0ZS1zb2x1dGlvbnMvMjAyMS8xMS8wMy9pdGhhY2EtbmV3LXlvcmstZGVjYXJib25pemUtZWxlY3RyaWZ5LyJ9.mnYKQgu7Lg4x6ZWwNWsEIXZ3AyD7hl5sOI5dWxXk7Yw 29 comments politics
- Ground-breaking Oxford University paper deserves much more air time. It overturns the common thinking that decarbonizing will be hugely expensive (it’s not –in fact it saves us $14-26 TRILLION), but also shows that 100% renewables can displace fossil fuels within 25 years. https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/energy_transition_paper-inet-working-paper.pdf 31 comments science
- Treadmill Decarbonization Doesn’t Help https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/treadmill-decarbonization-doesnt-help 3 comments energy
- Biden Climate Czar Vows Clean-Energy Rules, With Congress or Not | A standard is seen as crucial to Biden’s decarbonization goal | Regulations may fill gap if Congress fails, Gina McCarthy says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-13/biden-climate-czar-vows-clean-energy-rules-with-congress-or-not 4 comments politics
- A new study addresses alkaline water electrolysis, a key technology in the decarbonizing society https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775321002494?via%3Dihub=#undfig1 3 comments science
- Biden Wants 5 Times The Climate Spending Obama Won. That’s Still 5 Times Too Small. | The White House’s infrastructure proposal is an ambitious package, but some fear misplaced deficit concerns are lowballing what’s needed to decarbonize the U.S. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-infrastructure-climate-spending_n_6064b288c5b6a38505e1cf02 37 comments politics
- The Fossil Fuel Industry Thinks It Will Have a Good Year Under Biden | Without a big push to decarbonize, economic recovery means more business for oil companies. https://newrepublic.com/article/161048/fossil-fuel-oil-biden-stimulus 10 comments politics
- Early, steady investment in wind and solar energy is the best way to decarbonize the economy https://www.upi.com/science_news/2020/12/04/early-steady-investment-in-wind-solar-best-way-to-decarbonize-economy/2951607090283/ 9 comments worldnews
- How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs; The US has the technology to decarbonize by 2035. Here’s a plan to do it. https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/8/27/21403184/saul-griffith-ezra-klein-show-solve-climate-change-green-new-deal-rewiring-america 10 comments climate
- By decarbonizing the US economy, 25m clean #energy #jobs can be created and up to $2k in household savings over the next 15 years. https://www.theglobalcurrent.com/snippets 9 comments climate
- Managers of $16 Trillion Set Out Plan to Decarbonize Investments https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/managers-of-16-trillion-set-out-plan-to-decarbonize-investments-1.1475677 3 comments technology
- Phasing out coal is a no-regret strategy for most world regions: domestic benefits outweigh policy costs regardless of additional international benefits, eliminating the free-rider problem caused by a discrepancy between national decarbonization costs and global benefits from slowing climate change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0728-x 504 comments science
- The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually - Decarbonizing will cost trillions of dollars, but it’s an investment that will have big return — for the economy and the environment https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-the-green-new-deal-is-cheap-actually-965794/?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=85944970&_hsenc=p2anqtz--edaumuzu5v1ud8qxbwnzn7wnqa6bckie-zj6cldubjf-bdrjfrisys6v1ubigb6wiihxjlg8x8yvnmmo1rlbyfhjrvg&_hsmi=85944970 3 comments politics
- Halting climate change means a world without fossil fuels — not merely curbing emissions, says study | "Focusing only on emissions reductions can potentially miss—and mischaracterize—the more important challenge of decarbonization," says study co-author https://phys.org/news/2019-12-halting-climate-world-fossil-fuelsnot.html 6 comments worldnews
- Decarbonizing the power sector may save 5 million lives a year from air pollution - Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/pifc-dtp111819.php 4 comments science
- Heliogen, a Bill Gates-backed solar tech company, could help finally decarbonize heavy industry. Using mirrors to concentrate solar power isn’t new, but now the tech can push temperatures high enough to be used for manufacturing things such as steel and cement. https://www.fastcompany.com/90431869/this-bill-gates-backed-solar-tech-could-help-finally-decarbonize-heavy-industry 4 comments worldnews
- Bernie Sanders announces $16 trillion climate change plan calling for “complete decarbonization” by 2050 https://theweek.com/speedreads/860445/bernie-sanders-announces-16-trillion-climate-change-plan-calling-complete-decarbonization-by-2050 36 comments politics
- Widespread use of hydrogen energy essential for decarbonized society http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005790305 7 comments worldnews
- How to decarbonize America — and the world https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america-and-the-world/ 3 comments politics
- Far More Is Needed, Say Green Groups, But Hour-Long Sunday Show Segment on Climate Crisis a 'Huge' Testament to Grassroots Pressure. "Sunday news show producers, more of this please. Especially with guests who acknowledge the scientific imperative of radical decarbonization over the next 12 years." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/30/far-more-needed-say-green-groups-hour-long-sunday-show-segment-climate-crisis-huge 13 comments politics
- Electric vehicles could help save billions on energy storage. By removing the need to build new stationary grid storage, EVs can provide a dual benefit of decarbonizing transportation while lowering the capital costs for widespread renewables integration http://ioppublishing.org/news/electric-vehicles-could-help-save-billions-on-energy-storage/ 127 comments science
- Switching to electric cars is key to fixing America's 'critically insufficient' climate policies - Nearly 60% of US carbon pollution comes from power and transportation, and power is already decarbonizing fast https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/22/switching-to-electric-cars-is-key-to-fixing-americas-critically-insufficient-climate-policies 45 comments technology
- Arpa-E's $85-Million Plan to Build a Battery the Size of the Grid: "grid-scale battery storage will be the key innovation that enables the grid to completely decarbonize by mid-century." http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/fuel-cells/arpaes-85million-plan-to-build-a-battery-the-size-of-the-grid 13 comments worldnews