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World’s Largest E-Scooter Factory Aims to Make EV Each 2 Seconds
(Bloomberg) — Bhavish Aggarwal surveys the empty 500-acre expanse encircled by neon-painted homes, tiny shrines and mango groves. The high-profile…
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It’s Too Late for Big Oil’s Pivot to a Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute is debating whether to support a price on carbon. It’s not every day that a top…
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Delta to spend $30 million to offset most of its 2020 impact on climate
By Tracy Rucinski, Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it would spend more than $30 million…
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TWo Airline Titans Weigh In on the Future of Flight
(Bloomberg Opinion) — One year into the Covid-19 pandemic and a few months into the vaccine rollout, demand for air…
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Carbon Emissions Made a Rapid Recovery From Covid
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The chief benefit of the International Energy Agency’s new monthly data on global carbon emissions, published Tuesday,…
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This Company Helps Roughnecks Find Renewable Energy Jobs
(Bloomberg) — Alfred Burt grew up following his father across the oil patches of Texas. He carried on the family tradition,…
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Big Oil’s Net-Zero Plans Show the Hard Limits of Carbon Offsets
If you can’t pay the interest on your debts, an IOU isn’t going to be enough to save you from…
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster review: Bill Gates’s call to arms
By Adam Vaughan Bill Gates Courtesy of the author How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBill GatesAllen Lane (buy from Amazon…
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Local Hazards Grow as Americans Churn Out More Garbage
(Bloomberg) — As U.S. cities struggle to rein in garbage while propping up pricey recycling efforts, more companies are profiting…
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Why Texas Broke: The Crisis That Sank the State Has No Easy Fix
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — The Houston skyline was lit pink for Valentine’s Day. It was cold—really cold, at least by the…
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How Measuring and Reducing Emissions Has Become Its Own Business
(Bloomberg) — A new startup run by former employees of the payment processor Stripe Inc. will help companies analyze the…
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A New Link Tracing Beef From Amazon Rainforest to Grocery Stores
(Bloomberg) — Meatpacking powerhouses like JBS SA and Marfrig Global Foods SA have borne the brunt of watchdog efforts to root out…
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What a 1900s Wildlife Survey Reveals About Climate Change
“I don’t think there’s anybody today that could hold a candle to what those guys could do, both physically and…
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Renting All Your Furniture Means Never Discarding Another Sofa
(Bloomberg) — Plastic-wrapped foam mattresses, dilapidated plastic shelving units, three-legged Ikea chairs—Jay Reno calls this “end-of-life” furniture. And it’s accumulating…
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‘Portfolio Warming’ Is the New Climate Anxiety for Fund Managers
(Bloomberg) — All good money managers expect to outperform their benchmark, and by one such metric the French insurer and…
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Mexico Shifts Into Reverse on Electric Vehicles
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The combustible engine’s end date is firming up: General Motors Co., the largest of the Detroit big…
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