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![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?
Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.
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![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
Your electric vehicle could become a mini power plant
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
United’s supersonic planes would be a ‘massively polluting’ disaster
The true cost of faster-than-sound aviation.
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![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
Should I go into debt to buy an electric vehicle?
Whose responsibility is it to move the EV market?
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G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since the start of pandemic, report finds.
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“Death by a thousand cuts”: How Congress continues to whittle away at a critical environmental policy
A bipartisan bill aims to rollback parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act.
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![A photo collage of a Ford F-150 truck with colorful lightning bolts on top of it]()
![A photo collage of a Ford F-150 truck with colorful lightning bolts on top of it]()
Will the Ford F-150 Lightning turn Middle America onto EVs?
Picture a new type of EV driver: one who rolls around in a 400-horsepower pickup truck.
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NASA leads push for electric planes in next frontier of cutting emissions
The agency is corralling companies to demonstrate improved ways to power aircraft via batteries rather than jet fuel.
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![a photo taken from the back of a large cargo ship with wake in the foreground]()
![a photo taken from the back of a large cargo ship with wake in the foreground]()
Cargo ships are cleaning up smog — by dumping pollution into the seas
How a fix for air pollution leads to tons of contaminated water.
