Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

Elsewhere in West Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon collectively waste about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. —David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation at the University of California San Diego. GE Energy Flare Gas Reduction Study.

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Waste Gas Equatorial Guinea Gas-Electric 260

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

Clean energy may mean less mining for coal, but it also means opening or expanding mines to unearth minerals such as cobalt for use in alloys and batteries, tellurium for solar cells and semiconductors, and germanium for transistors in electronic devices.

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Missouri Green Energy Production 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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2018 Papua New Guinea Burundi Central African Republic 300

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2023

A CleanTechnica interviewee argues that automakers cannot make the excuse that it's too complicated to know who their suppliers are and how their suppliers are violating human rights.

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Supplies Tesla New York Congo 96

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $30 million to support scientific research that will ensure US businesses can reliably tap into a domestic supply of critical elements and minerals—specifically rare earth elements (REE) and platinum group elements (PGE)—needed to produce clean energy technologies. (

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Supplies Congo Clean Cleaning 321