Technology

"The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables."

"For decades, oil and gas companies have donated tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, sat on governing boards, sponsored scholarships and built pro-fossil fuel programming and curriculum — resulting in real or apparent conflicts of interest for universities and their researchers."

"A review commissioned by the World Health Organization found wireless technology use has skyrocketed, but brain cancer rates have not gone up accordingly."

"The Wyoming venture’s collapse raises questions about the fledgling direct air capture industry — and the Biden administration’s support of it."

"San Francisco-based startup Zum wants to turn electric school-bus fleets into grid batteries. This 74-bus depot in Oakland is testing the idea at large scale."

"The charging yard for electric trucks at the Port of Long Beach is bright and sunny and full of semitrailer tractors—the truncated front ends of big rigs without their big-box loads. It’s also quiet. Elsewhere at the port, wherever there are trucks, there’s the near-deafening rumble of diesel engines. But the trucks here aren’t combusting; they’re filling up with electrons to power their next trip to Southern California’s Inland Empire, the constellation of cities to the east with one of the heaviest concentrations of warehouses in the world."

"Massachusetts and Connecticut are the first two states in the nation to ban PFAS from firefighter gear, citing health hazards."