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Morocco: Energy and chemical giants sign important clean energy and infrastructure deal

A Greener Life

The OCP Group has agreed on an essential renewable energy and infrastructure deal with the French energy giant Engie. The agreement could yield investments of up to €17 billion in desalination, renewable energy, and green hydrogen. By 2040, it aims to be fully carbon neutral.

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What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7% All these estimates come from the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. As GPUs are not perfectly efficient, a substantial portion of the energy is turned into heat. In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S.

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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

Goldman Sachs analysis predicts that by 2028, AI will represent about 19 per cent of all data centre power demand. In particular, oil and gas companies use AI to cut down costs as they strive to compete with cheap renewable energy production. AI applications specifically are driving much of this growth.

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Republican Attack on Science Targets Water Research that Benefits All

Circle of Blue

He has attempted to illegally withhold funds for renewable energy, medical research, and foreign aid that Congress already approved but do not match his America First agenda. Lucks said that the projects funding, which was initially approved through 2028, has not yet been cut.

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The Pipeline Reality Check Part 2

Enviromental Defense

According to the International Energy Agency, which just ten years ago was a major booster of oil and gas, and is now warning us that the energy transition is WELL underway, sometime between 2028 and 2032, the world’s demand for oil and gas will peak, and start to decline by around one or two per cent a year.

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The “Big Beautiful Bill” is One Damn Dirty Deal

Legal Planet

Thom Tillis of North Carolina, have opposed or criticized the current version of the bill citing renewable energy and Medicaid cuts. Curtis argued in a recent Deseret News op-ed , that the bill must not end all clean energy tax credits because “we simply cannot afford to treat good policy ideas as guilty by political association.”

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

California Six in ten Californians favor the state’s goals to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy by 2045. The rates are too damned high and Democrats will need a strategic plan to stabilize or cut electricity costs heading into 2028, Robinson Meyer writes at Heatmap news.