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EGEB: Maine to ban offshore wind in state waters for 10 years

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Maine bans offshore wind in state (but not federal) waters for 10 years in a compromise. million with the participation of Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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EGEB: Maine governor permanently bans offshore wind in state waters [update]

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Maine’s governor permanently bans offshore wind in state waters in a compromise. million with the participation of Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

Cars That Think

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Rivian collaborates with non-profit to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change

Teslarati

Rivian announced a collaboration with a non-profit organization called The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to preserve biodiversity, fight climate change, and keep adventures wild. We're excited to collaborate with @nature_org to help protect our land and water. It was only right a camping trip led to this.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

Cars That Think

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus.

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Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists

Creative Greenius

As evil and damaging as racism is to individuals and our society overall, the Climate LiarDeniers’s evil far exceeds the scope of race haters because the damage is done to everyone at a global level of catastrophe that no racial supremacist ever dreamed of. . It’s as obvious as water is wet. .

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New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

Green Car Congress

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) paper published in Computers & Geosciences outlines a process that might help to determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change. Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis.

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