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Tesla to begin Giga Berlin expansion in first half of 2024: report

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Many attendees criticized Tesla’s changes to application documentation as the process has gone along. However, the State Office for the Environment (LfU) argued that the changes were legal and were only meant to add clarifications or corrections to the details.

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DOE reports say cumulative investment in hydrogen, nuclear and long-duration energy storage must increase to $300B by 2030

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Additionally, adoption of this technology has the potential to create long-term, high-paying jobs and deliver new economic opportunities for traditional energy producing communities that already have pre-existing power generation infrastructure, such as coal communities.

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Eight energy majors commit to reduce methane emissions within natural gas industry

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The eight energy companies today signed a Guiding Principles document, which focuses on: continually reducing methane emissions; advancing strong performance across gas value chains; improving accuracy of methane emissions data; advocating sound policies and regulations on methane emissions; and increasing transparency.

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Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

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Vanadium is a trace metal found in many earth materials, including petroleum and coal. Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. —Schlesinger et al. —lead author William H.

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Nations agree on global, legally binding treaty on mercury emissions: Minamata Convention on Mercury

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These range from medical equipment such as thermometers and energy-saving light bulbs to the mining, cement and coal-fired power sectors. Victims can suffer memory loss and language impairment alongside many other well documented problems. From Power Stations to Cement Factories.

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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs

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The study is the first to document the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce the burden of air pollution in a highly polluted area of China, and provides a model to measure how policies to improve air quality can protect human health. Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

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The industry badly needs technical standards to enable charging providers to document, diagnose and repair charging problems in a uniform way. A big component of that is not only documenting the technical environment or the intersection of technical systems, but also training people how to operate in this area. that does that.

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