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![A subway train rolls into a station in Barcelona.]()
![A subway train rolls into a station in Barcelona.]()
Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations
Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations, and neighborhood EV chargers. Could New York do it too?
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![A group of elementary children wearing winter coats and backpacks stand on a street corner outside an elementary school waiting for crossing guards]()
![A group of elementary children wearing winter coats and backpacks stand on a street corner outside an elementary school waiting for crossing guards]()
London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.
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![A man in a tee shirt and jeans raises a pickup truck on a piece of orange machinery in a factory]()
![A man in a tee shirt and jeans raises a pickup truck on a piece of orange machinery in a factory]()
EV sales are growing. So why are automakers getting cold feet?
From Ford to Mercedes-Benz, major automakers are walking back aggressive electrification goals they set just a few years ago.
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![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
"We risked our health for the delivery companies during COVID, and now we are doing it again."
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Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
A new fleet of buses can send power back to the grid, stabilizing it instead of straining it.
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![Collage of Los Angeles smog, President Richard Nixon signing a bill, cars on a California freeway, and a vintage cartoon clipping]()
![Collage of Los Angeles smog, President Richard Nixon signing a bill, cars on a California freeway, and a vintage cartoon clipping]()
The forgotten fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Half a century ago, an obscure state senator fought to ban gas-powered cars — and almost won.
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![The outside of a white warehouse building with trucks bearing Amazon Prime's branding and logo lined to load from it]()
![The outside of a white warehouse building with trucks bearing Amazon Prime's branding and logo lined to load from it]()
Deal of the day: New study links online shopping to air pollution
Nitrogen dioxide levels near e-commerce warehouses are 20 percent higher than in other neighborhoods. It can even be measured from space.
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The $1.7 billion bet on American-made EVs, explained by the Secretary of Energy
Jennifer Granholm tells Grist why the Biden administration is paying to convert auto plants into ones that can churn out EVs.
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Taking a train during a heat wave? Watch out for ‘sun kinks.’
As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms.
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A group of young people just forced Hawaiʻi to take major climate action
The historic agreement comes two years after 13 youth plaintiffs sued the state Department of Transportation.
