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Why is there a Carrot Boycott in Cuyama Valley?

Legal Planet

The problem is that more water is being pumped from the ground than is being replenished. Cuyama Valley is one of California’s 21 over-pumped , or “critically overdrafted ” basins. And they’re accused of being responsible for more than 40% of the Cuyama Valley’s pumping — enough water to supply a large city.

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Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

Law and Environment

Other provisions include a ban on incentives and rebates from Mass Save related to fossil fuel powered systems, except as backup for electric heat pumps. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. Renewable Energy.

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Could the world really become net zero by 2040 ?

Edouard Stenger

Topping also makes a parallel with the Apollo moonshot, something I blogged about a decade earlier… — ” Systems change, not climate change “ While I applaud the optimism – something we definitively need in those times of pandemic, wars and climate catastrophes – I am not sure this is as straightforward as this.

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Will global fossil fuels emissions really peak this year ?

Edouard Stenger

This is exactly what is taking place with solar, electric vehicles, heat pumps and similar technologies. Figures would prove them wrong : solar, wind and other technologies would soar higher and higher. Little by little, then all at once. And we are now in the all at once phase.

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Brooklyn startup addresses gun violence with climate jobs

A Greener Life

Most of the work relates to greening the city’s buildings — electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations. Steam heating systems alone, many of them old and inefficient, account for about 42 percent of NYC’s building emissions. Roughly a third of U.S.

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Survey Shows Pathway To Speeding Up EV Adoption in Rural Areas

Union of Concerned Scientists

The number of people who would definitely buy or lease an EV has more than tripled since 2020 A striking result from the survey is that slow adoption rate in rural areas is not for lack of interest in EVs.

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NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds

PA Environment Daily

The next General Assembly and Governor-elect Shapiro can improve the law by (1) strengthening the definition of "clean H2," (2) conditioning credit eligibility on a timely transition to clean H2, and (3) establishing state community protection and benefit standards. In short, Act 108 is a $1 billion bet that the DOE will do the right things.