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Can Geopolitics Unlock Greenland’s Critical Materials Treasure Chest?

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Another reason is high operational costs due to the harsh climate and lack of infrastructure. In the meantime, this case is likely to harm investment in Greenland due to the climate of high political risk it suggests. A major one is lack of human resources. Others include restrictions favoring labor from Greenland or Denmark.

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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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START Bus unveils Wyoming’s first electric buses; first Proterra ZX5 buses in US

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START Bus, a public transit system serving Jackson and Teton County, Wyoming, and nearby areas and Proterra unveiled the community’s first of eight Proterra ZX5 battery-electric transit buses. The buses are the first battery-electric buses in Wyoming and first Proterra ZX5 buses ( earlier post ) to be deployed in the United States.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. In terms of per capita emissions, the top emitter was Wyoming (118.5 Climate Change Emissions' Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6

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BNEF: global carbon capture capacity due to rise sixfold by 2030

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Still, despite significant acceleration in the sector in the past two years, the world’s capacity for carbon capture is not being deployed fast enough to meet climate goals at the end of the decade, according to BNEF research. Companies are already becoming more ambitious in their projects.

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NOAA: US Averaged Warmer-than-Normal, Drier-than-Normal in March

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NOAA’s State of the Climate report shows the March 2010 average temperature for the entire contiguous United States was warmer-than-average with several New England states experiencing one of the warmest months of March on record. are part of the suite of NOAA climate services. March temperatures relative to 1895-2010 Click to enlarge.

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Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost production, use of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel

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Wyoming is already a leading producer of renewable diesel and is expected to produce a lot more in the near future. As such, we are losing an opportunity to deliver needed public health and climate benefits associated with using higher levels of renewable diesel. In 2019, it displaced 618 million gallons of conventional diesel.

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