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Puerto Rico town celebrates ‘first-of-its-kind’ solar microgrid
In the event of an outage, the battery system can power 14 downtown businesses for up to 10 days.
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![A construction worker builds the cinder block foundation for a new home]()
![A construction worker builds the cinder block foundation for a new home]()
How a small business in Arizona is helping decarbonize concrete
The pioneering project cuts cement from the recipe and replaces it with industrial waste and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere.
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![A scientist in googles and a white lab coat works in a row of white and yellow machines with lots of tubes.]()
![A scientist in googles and a white lab coat works in a row of white and yellow machines with lots of tubes.]()
From lab to market, bio-based products are gaining momentum
Propelled by government investment and shareholder demand, manufacturers are pushing to get bio-based products into the marketplace. Made from plants, fungi, and microbes, these new materials aim to replace those that contain toxins and are difficult to recycle or reuse.
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A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry
The group will focus on permanent removal, distancing itself from "temporary" solutions and traditional offsets.
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![A man in a bright orange vest stands next to a blue cart in front of a huge row of black machines.]()
![A man in a bright orange vest stands next to a blue cart in front of a huge row of black machines.]()
Can crypto mining go green? Critics are skeptical
Some miners are promising more climate-friendly operations, but research shows the industry is a long way from putting that into practice.
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The Biden administration aims to make EV charging as easy as filling up
The first comprehensive standards for public electric vehicle charging stations will help ensure reliability and accessibility.
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![Two firefighters in silver protective gear spray white foam to put out a fire.]()
![Two firefighters in silver protective gear spray white foam to put out a fire.]()
Destroying ‘forever chemicals’ is a technological race that could become a multibillion-dollar industry
Technology to eliminate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known for their links to fertility problems and some cancers – could be on the horizon.
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![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law
Documents reveal tech lobbyists revised a right-to-repair bill before New York's governor signed it.
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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals
"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”
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![Collage: hydrogen factory and wind turbine on mountain of coal with ominous dark background]()
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How a new subsidy for ‘green hydrogen’ could set off a carbon bomb
Using electricity to make hydrogen could be an elegant climate solution — or it could prop up a dirty grid.
