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Microsoft’s ambitious climate goal forgets about its oil contracts
A new study shows that a single collaboration with ExxonMobil has the potential to inflate Microsoft’s yearly carbon footprint by 21 percent.
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Your kid’s first car just might be electric
New study says electric cars will do better than bounce back.
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The problem with Big Oil’s climate goals: They don’t include all the oil.
A new report throws shade on oil companies' climate promises.
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Solar panels are more efficient than you’ve heard. This material could make them even better.
Today’s typical silicon solar panels operate at around 22 percent efficiency, but a new crystalline material called perovskite could soon raise the solar efficiency bar much further.
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Can today’s hottest sustainable building method actually slow climate change?
Cross-laminated timber draws praise -- and skeptics.
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Harvard didn’t divest from fossil fuels. So what does its ‘net-zero’ pledge mean?
Harvard has a new net-zero by 2050 plan for its endowment. But it’s not yet clear what it will entail, and whether the school will be able to fulfill it.
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Coronavirus has wiped out 106,000 clean energy jobs so far. Can the US get them back?
Half a million clean energy workers could lose their jobs by the end of June, according to a new analysis.
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One of coronavirus’s lasting legacies: The end of work as we knew it
Coronavirus has shocked businesses into low-carbon practices. Will they stick?
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Coronavirus pumps the brakes on the electric vehicle revolution
Far from just impacting transportation today, the pandemic and ensuing economic fallout could have big implications for the transit systems of tomorrow.
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As Amazon speeds up, a warehouse community braces for a deadly combo: air pollution and coronavirus
Ozone pollution and high asthma rates are poised to make COVID-19 exceptionally deadly in California's Inland Empire.
