By [email protected] Former California Senator Kevin de León is back in campaign mode after announcing this month he will vie for a city council seat in Los Angeles, and is continuing to center environmental issues among his core policy interests. Speaking at a University of California-Berkeley energy summit on Friday, se León expounded on environmental…
By Joshua S Hill Corporations based in Europe are among those most likely to be making significant climate-related commitments and progress with as much as 75% of Europe’s largest corporations acknowledging “transition” risks, such as new climate legislation will meaningfully affect their businesses. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By National Wind Watch Former Iowa Sen. Jeff Danielson says he has taken a job as a regional state policy director for the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade group for the wind energy industry. Danielson, who unexpectedly resigned Feb. 14 after 15 years in the Senate, says in a statement released Friday he…
By National Wind Watch Jeff Danielson, an Iowa senator who resigned last week, is taking a job with the American Wind Energy Association. The national group said Danielson will lead its state policy advocacy efforts across Midwestern and Plains states. In his new role as central region director, Danielson “will advocate for pro-growth policies to…
By mmillikin The BMW Group and Daimler AG are pooling their mobility services to create a new global player providing sustainable urban mobility for customers. The two companies are investing more than €1 billion (US$1.13 billion) in total to develop and more closely intermesh their offerings for car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport. The…
By Ralph Cavanagh Guest Blog by Emma Rapperport California’s legislature is moving yet again to create an historic clean energy precedent for its residents and the world. Read More Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy & climate
By mmillikin Hydrogen suppliers & fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) automakers, Air Liquide, Hyundai, NEL, Nikola Motor, Shell and Toyota have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for hydrogen fueling components for the purpose of testing state-of-the-art heavy duty (HD) hydrogen fueling hardware to assist in standardization and speed to market for fuel cell electric…
By John Miller Politics have clearly played a major role in addressing U.S. actions towards Climate Change. The ‘Green New Deal’, recently proposed by Congressional Democrats, appears to be the next major strategy towards reducing future U.S. carbon emissions. While part of the Green New Deal definitely has its merits, the question that.. Click headline…
By Kelsey Misbrener The solar industry commended the South Carolina House of Representatives for unanimously passing a landmark energy bill, The Energy Freedom Act, on a bipartisan vote and urged the Senate to quickly follow suit. The Energy Freedom Act would modernize the state’s energy market, enabling all energy sources to compete on fair terms,…
By [email protected] (Bengt Halvorson) In the wake of the debate over California’s complicated, delayed, and over-budget Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project, a bill introduced to the California State Senate last week comes up with a simpler solution: just add more freeway lanes, and get rid of the speed limit entirely in those new lanes….
By [email protected] (Eric C. Evarts) If the goal of the Green New Deal proposed by Democrats in Congress is to get people talking about a transition to renewable energy, then it looks to be gaining traction. The Senate generated controversy on both sides of the aisle by proposing to hold a token vote on the…
By Michelle Froese U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Offshore Wind for Territories Act, bipartisan legislation authorizing offshore wind energy development in the exclusive economic zone adjacent to U.S. territories American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The proposed legislation ensures territories receive…
By mmillikin A team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has shown by modeling that the wafer cost of an emerging Ga2O3 wide bandgap semiconductor can be more than 3-times lower compared to SiC. This lower cost of the Ga2O3 wafers should lead to less-expensive high-performance power electronic devices in the future. A paper…
By mmillikin The European Parliament and the Council have reached provisional agreement on a regulation setting, for the first time in the EU, strict CO2 emission standards for trucks. Under the agreement, emissions from new trucks will have to be 15% lower by 2025 and 30% lower in 2030 compared to 2019 emissions. The deal…
By Joel Stronberg The Green New Deal has sparked a national dialogue on global warming at a time when the polls show that voters on both sides of the aisle are increasingly concerned about climate change based on their own experiences and the work of mainstream climate scientists.Announcement of the GND Resolution (H. Res. 109)…