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Wind And Solar Energy Overtake Fossil Fuels To Provide 30% Of EU Electricity [1]

"Wind turbines and solar panels have overtaken fossil fuels to generate 30% of the European Union’s electricity in the first half of the year, a report has found."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Infrastructure [4]
Public [5]
Europe [6]
Source: Guardian [7], 07/31/2024
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Washington Giving Tax Breaks to Data Centers That Threaten Green Energy Push [8]

"In 2019, Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade. Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Infrastructure [4]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [10]
Source: Seattle Times [11], 07/30/2024
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Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution, Documents Show [12]

"This spring, Democrats wrapped up a nearly three-year investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in climate disinformation, and asked the Department of Justice to pick up where they left off. In House and Senate Democrats’ final report and hearing, investigators concluded that major oil companies had not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but also were continuing to misinform them about the industry’s preferred climate “solutions”— particularly biofuels and carbon capture."

Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Drilled [18], 07/30/2024
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Companies Are Getting Paid When Governments Phase Out Fossil Fuels [19]

"A common part of free trade agreements helps fossil fuel companies force big payouts from governments phasing out oil and gas projects. The United States narrowly avoided a $15 billion claim over the shuttered Keystone XL pipeline."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Public [5]
International [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 07/30/2024
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Wind Farms’ Benefits To Communities Face Opposition And Misinformation [22]

"After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [24]
Infrastructure [4]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [26], 07/29/2024
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"The Plastic Industry’s $30 Million Lie" [27]

"If you’ve tuned into any major TV network in the last few months, you may have seen an ad promising a brand new way to end plastic pollution: advanced recycling."

Chemicals [13]
Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: HEATED [32], 07/29/2024
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"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA" [33]

"The details of Project 2025 plans on climate, and for the EPA."

Chemicals [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [30]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Drilled [34], 07/29/2024
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"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [35]

"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [30]
Transportation [36]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: Grist [38], 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA" [39]

"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."

Air [40]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [30]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [20]
Source: E&E News [41], 07/26/2024
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"How Israel’s War On Gaza Unraveled A Landmark Mideast Climate Deal" [42]

"Project Prosperity, a water-for-energy deal between Israel and Jordan, promised major climate adaption in a drought-stricken region. Then October 7 happened."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [5]
Middle East [43]
Source: Grist [44], 07/25/2024
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