Tag: coal
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Biden takes on Dems’ ‘Mission Impossible’: Revitalizing coal country
After years of watching their standing erode in energy-producing states, Democrats under President Joe Biden have accepted the challenge that’s vexed them for a decade: convincing fossil fuel workers that they will still be okay even if their current jobs evaporate as the nation embraces a climate change-friendly economy. Democrats have a term for their…
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Global Briefing: UN summit confronts global biodiversity crisis
All the top green industry news from all over the globe this week, such as VW’s electric vehicle investment from China, electrical ferries from Thailand, along with Denmark’s ambitious climate goal UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis Global leaders assembled virtually this week to discuss the environmental catastrophe that is devastating the world’s ecosystems, in…
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ICYMI: Australian Apocalypse, Farewell to Paddlefish & Baby Whales
Catastrophic bushfires in Australia burn off an area larger than Portugal. Twenty-six people have died, along with a billion animals could have perished–maybe more– even leaving some species about the verge of extinction. Australian authorities are likely to kill 10,000 feral camels because they are competing with humans for scarce water. Smoke from the fires…