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| 25.06.2025 | Surviving the Heat: A Guide to Navigating Extreme Temperatures in the U.S. | As summer descends, the U.S. finds itself in the grip of an unforgiving heat wave. The sun blazes down, and temperatures soar. In cities like New York, the mercury hits 100 degrees, while other regions experience similar extremes. This isn’... |
| 20.06.2025 | How to stay cool in the heat wave hitting parts of the US — even without air conditioning | So here are some tips to stay safe. FILE – Mirabelle Demske, second from left, uses a portable electric fan to cool off her friends Faith Hamzy, center, and Annie Sayre, second from right, June 20, 2024, at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio.... |
| 19.06.2025 | Michigan, environmental groups challenge federal order to keep power plant open | - |
| 17.06.2025 | Senate Republicans double down and target clean energy in draft tax bill | Notably, many Republicans in Congress have advocated to protect the credits, as massive amounts of investment in clean energy have gone to Republican districts as a result.
The clean energy tax credits stem from Biden’s climate law, which a... |
| 13.06.2025 | The Battle for Clean Air: Trump’s Rollback of Emission Standards | In a bold move, President Trump is set to sign measures that will block California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules. This decision is a pivotal moment in the ongoing tug-of-war between state and federal regulations on environmental stand... |
| 11.06.2025 | EPA moves to repeal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from US power plants | Zeldin said Wednesday the new rules would help end what he called the Biden and Obama administration’s “war on so much of our U.S. domestic energy supply.”
“The American public spoke loudly and clearly last November,” he added in a speech a... |
| 15.05.2025 | The EPA's New Stance on PFAS: A Step Backward for Clean Water? | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently announced a rollback of certain regulations concerning PFAS, commonly known as "forever chemicals." This decision has sparked a heated debate among environmentalists, water ut... |
| 14.05.2025 | EPA announces rollback for some Biden-era limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water | The development was first reported by The Washington Post. FILE – Vials containing samples of forever chemicals, known as PFAS, sit in a tray, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. ... |
| 14.05.2025 | What the EPA’s partial rollback of the ‘forever chemical’ drinking water rule means | They were manufactured by companies such as 3M, Chemours and others because they were incredibly useful. They helped eggs slide across nonstick frying pans, ensured that firefighting foam suffocates flames and helped clothes withstand the r... |
| 12.05.2025 | House Republicans target clean energy tax credits and pollution rules in budget proposal | “The legislation would reverse the most reckless parts of the engorged climate spending in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act,” Guthrie wrote.
The cuts to climate programs are part of a larger $880 billion in savings by 2034 proposed in t... |
| 09.04.2025 | Trump signs executive orders to boost US coal as power demand rises | Trump signs executive orders to boost US coal as power demand rises
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| 19.03.2025 | Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Hosts Global Forum on Heat & Cooling Solutions in India | New Delhi, Delhi, India
The Global Heat & Cooling Forum, organized in partnership with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and The World Bank Group by the NRDC, concluded today in Ne... |
| 19.03.2025 | BeltLine E-Scooter Incidents: How Micro-Mobility Tech Is Reshaping Personal Injury Claims in Atlanta | Created by Carl Williams
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| 18.03.2025 | EPA plans to eliminate scientific research team, could fire more than 1,000 employees | FILE – Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Phot... |
| 18.03.2025 | Report highlights how communities hardest hit by climate change can build resilient water systems | In September, more than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina were under boil-water notices for nearly two months after Hurricane Helene destroyed much of a local water system. In January, several water providers declared their drinki... |
| 12.03.2025 | National Politics | EPA head says he’ll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change | Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support rewriting the agency’s 2009 finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama-era determination under the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of ... |
| 28.02.2025 | The Tug of War: Natural Gas vs. Renewables in America’s Energy Future | The landscape of American energy is shifting. Natural gas is on the rise, while renewable sources struggle to gain ground. This tug of war between fossil fuels and clean energy is reshaping the nation’s environmental and economic future.
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| 27.02.2025 | Business | In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate | “Gas is growing faster now and in the medium term than ever before,” said Corianna Mah, a power and renewables analyst at data analytics firm Enverus.
Before the spike in electricity demand last year, many in the industry had assumed that t... |
| 26.02.2025 | National Politics | EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say | The Obama-era finding “is the linchpin of the federal government’s policies for what the president and I call the climate hoax,” said Steve Milloy, a former Trump transition adviser who disputes mainstream science on climate change.
“If you... |
| 10.02.2025 | Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether Boulder’s landmark climate-change lawsuit against Suncor, Exxon can proceed | The state Supreme Court’s decision will be pivotal.
If the justices decide the case belongs in state courts, it will continue a lengthy legal battle that eventually could cost Suncor and Exxon millions of dollars in a settlement or judgment... |
| 21.01.2025 | National Politics | President Trump wants to make showerheads and toilets flow greatly again, but so may utility bills | His order would “safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads.”Related... |
| 17.01.2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 13 January, 2025 | Back to Publications Greenland Prepared for Dialogue with the US, But On Its Own Terms
As reported by Reuters on January 13, Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede announced that his government is ready to engage in dialogue with the incomin... |
| 07.01.2025 | Carter’s Green Legacy: A President Ahead of His Time | POWER & RENEWABLE ENERGY Carter’s Green Legacy: A President Ahead of His Time
07 Jan 2025 3 Min Read CW Team
When Jimmy Carter launched his presidential campaign, he deliberately chose green as his campaign color, bypassing the conventi... |
| 19.11.2024 | CoreLogic’s John Rogers on AI, climate risk and land development issues | John Rogers is a well-known name in the world of mortgage and real estate data analysis. The globe-trotting CoreLogic executive recently earned a larger role at the California-based company and is now serving as its chief data and analytics... |
| 15.07.2024 | Scenic Hudson Calls Out the EPA for Delaying the PCB Cleanup of the Hudson River | Scenic Hudson, a New York Hudson Valley-based environmental nonprofit, says the long-awaited Environmental Protection Agency report on the toxic PCB cleanup of the Hudson River is dangerously wrong and overlooks scientific evidence.
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| 07.06.2024 | Ртуть – супертоксикант в рыбе | Скачать в удобном виде — PDF, Word, памятка. Там же можно будет легко найти ссылки на первоисточники любой части материала через "поиск по странице" или клавиши Ctrl+F, и ещё больше дополнительной информации в разделе "Факты&... |
| 03.06.2024 | Proteger a las personas ante el calor extremo previsto para este verano | Inscribirse para recibir el boletín semanal El Clima en la Boleta.
Cada lunes, en El Clima en la Boleta presentamos un tema para ayudarte a integrar el clima en la cobertura de la campaña de tu redacción. Considera compartir este boletín co... |
| 03.06.2024 | Anticipating This Year’s Predicted Extreme Heat | Sign up for the weekly Climate on the Ballot newsletter.
Every Monday, in Climate on the Ballot, we pass along a topic to help you integrate climate into your newsroom’s campaign reporting. Consider sharing this newsletter with your colleag... |
| 10.05.2024 | EGLE Invests More Than $958 Million in Lead Service Line Removals to Protect Public Health, Natural Resources | Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy joined officials from the City of Detroit and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) for a press conference highlighting recent transformational investments in ... |
| 02.05.2024 | State awarded $61 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help communities remove lead service lines | The State of Michigan has been allotted $61.9 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for lead water service line removal projects. This announcement came on the heels of a report giving Michigan an “A” grade in integratin... |
| 02.05.2024 | Launch of "What's Possible": A Blueprint for Sustainable American Communities | New book features essays from 50+ leading climate, finance, and community development experts
Blueprint for equitable green investment arrives following $20 billion in federal grants to catalyze clean energy and sustainable development in d... |
| 25.04.2024 | EPA issues toughest rule yet on power plant emissions, but it's likely to face court challenges | Washington — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric pl... |
| 19.04.2024 | EPA lists 2 common "forever chemicals" as Superfund hazardous substances | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Two toxic, widely used "forever chemicals" are now classified as hazardous substances under a new rule that the Biden administration finalized on Friday.
Why it matters: The rule, under the ... |
| 11.04.2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Joan Peck: Colorado must require Xcel to invest boldly in electrification now | By Joan Peck
To those of us who choose to live in Colorado, our lush forests, sparkling streams and crisp, clean air are the defining icons of our collective home. But we are watching it slip away — to year-round wildfire seasons, early sno... |
| 10.04.2024 | EPA announces first-ever national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water | For the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it is issuing a national regulation limiting the amount of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, found in drinking water.
Commonly called... |
| 27.03.2024 | Inside ADM’s mission to shift millions of acres to regenerative ag | When agrifood giant ADM kickstarted its regenerative agriculture efforts, few outside of organic farming had ever given the phrase much thought.
“When we had our first program, it wasn’t even called regenerative agriculture, it was just a c... |
| 21.03.2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
| 09.03.2024 | A California man charged with smuggling greenhouse gases hints at the revival of a decades-long black market | Sustainability A California man charged with smuggling greenhouse gases hints at the revival of a decades-long black market
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| 23.02.2024 | Society’s Burden: How Taxpayers Carry the Crushing Costs of Livestock Production | 5 Mins Read From pollution and destruction to disease, the societal costs of livestock meat production are an incredible burden.
In 2020, the average American ate almost 280 pounds of meat, a figure which is very likely higher today. Many E... |
| 15.12.2023 | Why designer Eileen Fisher set an unachievable sustainability goal | Sustainability Why designer Eileen Fisher set an unachievable sustainability goal
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2023-12-15T13:28:54Z
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| 06.12.2023 | McDonald’s Spent 7 Years Making A Burger Better for the Palate, But Not the Planet | 6 Mins Read McDonald’s new burgers are on their way, after seven years of testing and over 50 tweaks, in response to drying consumer sentiment about its dry burgers. But while these burgers might be more impactful on your palate, they certa... |
| 19.10.2023 | Big Telecom Allied GOP Lawmakers Pretend New FCC Net Neutrality Push Is ‘Unlawful’ | As noted last month, the Biden FCC is finally getting ready to restore net neutrality rules stripped away during the Trump administration amidst a lot of bullshit and fraud. And unpopular telecom giants, with the usual support of the GOP, a... |
| 17.10.2023 | DOE Hydrogen Hubs Decision Funds Fossil Fuels, But 45V Tax Credit Can Right The Ship | The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) $7 billion announcement launching seven “hydrogen hubs” is intended to fund clusters of projects to test different ways of making, storing, moving, and using a gas that could cut emissions. |
| 14.09.2023 | The EPA Rejected Calls for Tougher Water Pollution Regulations at US Factory Farms – Now, It’s Being Sued | 5 Mins Read Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a 2017 petition calling for stricter water pollution regulations for factory farms. The agency formed a research committee to recommend solutions in a process that cou... |
| 21.08.2023 | 3 Key Measures To Advance 2030 Climate Change Goals In The United States | In April 2021, the United States announced its plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50–52% from 2005 levels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The critical components of President Biden’s plan to implement these... |
| 15.08.2023 | South America's scorching winter is decimating crops and threatening lives | This winter in South America has been one of the hottest on record, intensifying crises created over the last year by severe droughts, wildfires and floods in some regions.
Why it matters: Experts say the extreme weather is already threaten... |
| 23.07.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Tarun Gopalakrishnan: Using green banks to solve housing and climate crises at the same time | By Tarun Gopalakrishnan, Bethany Tietjen and Seth Owusu-Mante
Green banks are starting to draw attention in the U.S., particularly since the federal government announced its first grant competitions under a national green bank program to br... |
| 12.07.2023 | Data snapshot: Meet the startups tackling conservation and deforestation in Latin America | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 19.06.2023 | Reparations, in Our Lifetime | Once dismissed by many as impractical, the quest for reparations for the descendants of African people enslaved in the United States is now being embraced as a legitimate concept to be taken seriously. The remedy is not only being sought to... |
| 15.06.2023 | NEW REPORT: VCs are underinvesting in Latin America agrifoodtech. Fintech and conservation tech could change that | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.
Historically, agrifoodtech venture capital has underinvested in Latin America despite the region’s natural resources, biodiverse ecosystems and high levels of food production.
Latin Amer... |
| 14.06.2023 | Speakers and Sessions Announced, Registration Open for "TSCA Reform -- Seven Years Later" Virtual Conference, 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT June 29, 2023 | This timely and essential day-long virtual conference will provide updates on risk evaluation, risk management, new chemical review, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and more.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) June 14, 2023
The full program, in... |
| 11.06.2023 | Why are Canadian wildfires affecting the U.S.? | Want to know a better term for "global warming?" "Global weirding." Freak snowstorms in Texas? Wildfires in Siberia?
And this past week, another wall of weirdness wafted over the Eastern U.S.: thick, smelly smoke from th... |
| 06.06.2023 | From fintech to alt protein, Latam’s next generation of agrifood startups is building a farmer-first food system | Latin America is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, home to around 60% of global terrestrial life in addition to vast amounts of land and water resources. The livestock sector in Latam accounts for 23% of global beef and buffa... |
| 14.05.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Kathleen Merrigan: These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and how the U.S. eats | By Kathleen Merrigan
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that will shape what kind of food U.S. farmers grow, how they raise it and how it gets to consumers. These measures are large, complex and expensiv... |
| 03.04.2023 | 9 eco-friendly things you can do on any vacation that sustainable-travel experts say add up to make a big difference | Travel 9 eco-friendly things you can do on any vacation that sustainable-travel experts say add up to make a big difference
Alesandra Dubin
2023-04-03T16:17:55Z
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| 30.03.2023 | Raincoats, undies, school uniforms: Are your clothes dripping in "forever chemicals"? | There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat.
Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks... |
| 17.03.2023 | Article: Decentralized water treatment – the solution for universal safe drinking water? | Article: Decentralized water treatment – the solution for universal safe drinking water?
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| 13.03.2023 | Lexus Offers a Sneak Peek of the RZ450e — Here's What To Expect | April Fowell, Tech Times 13 March 2023, 10:03 am
Lexus has provided a glimpse of its new electric vehicle, the RZ 450e, reported by Engadget.
(Photo : by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)
A woman walks past a showroom for Lexus cars, ... |
| 07.03.2023 | What to know about the new U.N. high seas treaty – and the next steps for the accord | Overfishing and poaching have been detrimental to marine wildlife, including the Shkodra's lake, a body of water that straddles Albania and Montenegro, which is shown above. Gent Shkullaku/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ge... |
| 05.03.2023 | 5 Ways to Reduce Food Waste — for a Healthier Planet and a Health... February 14, 2023 | 6:01 AM EST Learn more about 5 Ways to Reduce Food Waste — for a Healthier Planet and a Healthier You | By Lisbeth Irish, RDN, CDN, CDCES
Did you know that the average family of four wastes about $1,500 worth of food per year? That means one person would waste approximately $375 per year.
How we plan, store, and make use of the food we buy fo... |
| 15.02.2023 | A “Net Zero World” Starts With Regenerative Agriculture | Farming in a "Net Zero World" murata manufacturing co. |
| 07.02.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: John C. Lamb: It’s not too late to make a difference on climate change | By John C. Lamb
Bill Wright, a member of the Daily Camera’s Community Editorial Board, wrote an opinion on December 24, 2022, under the headline “Corporate Climate Obligations.” He called climate change activists a derogatory name, question... |
| 13.12.2022 | Revised proposal to reform California’s rooftop solar program doesn’t go far enough | In summary
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission will vote on a controversial reform of the state’s rooftop solar program. Proponents who want to scale back subsidies and eliminate the “cost shift” on poorer households arg... |
| 11.12.2022 | Electric cars make utility bills cheaper for everyone, new research finds | The Tesla Model Y. Tesla
Electric cars are helping push electricity rates down in the US, according to a new study.
They bring lots of revenue to utility companies, but don't cost much to provide energy to.
Since utilities can't reap unlimi... |
| 08.12.2022 | By the numbers: the state of the world’s soil in 2022 | For this year’s world soil day, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reminded us that 95% of the food we eat comes directly or indirectly from our soils. In other words, ultra-processed alt meats made with pea protein ... |
| 30.11.2022 | SprayWorks Begins Offering HFO Foam to Support Contractors with HFC Compliance | HFO Spray Foam “We felt it was important to make compliance easy for our customers,” says Ryan Coffman, Material Specialist, SprayWorks Equipment. “We anticipate an influx of states banning HFC’s so we want to make sure our customers are re... |
| 30.11.2022 | Building Decarbonization Leader Joins Harvest Thermal | Pierre Delforge named Head of Operations and Product for Harvest Thermal
Pierre Delforge to accelerate product development and deployment
Building decarbonization means using the least amount of energy from the cleanest sources at the right... |
| 18.11.2022 | Scuttled Offshore Wind Plans Are Good News For Ratepayers, North Atlantic Right Whales | The fewer offshore wind turbines get built, the better it will be for American ratepayers, the ... [+] commercial fishing industry, and the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Photo illustration by Mary Bryce |
| 09.11.2022 | California voters said no to taxing the rich to make EVs more affordable | California voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have raised taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents to accelerate the sales of electric cars, particularly for low-income residents.
The measure, Proposition 30, was meant ... |
| 06.11.2022 | Electric cars won't just solve tailpipe emissions — they may even strengthen the US power grid, experts say | A Tesla Model S at a charging station in New York. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
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An innovation called vehicle-to-grid technology, or V2G, lets ... |
| 01.11.2022 | 46 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it | Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The US Supreme Court was formed... |
| 09.10.2022 | Electric cars won't overload the power grid — and they could even help modernize our aging infrastructure | Tesla electric cars charge at a Supercharger. George Rose/Getty Images
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Electric cars won't overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say.
EVs don't consume a lot of energy now, and it will be decades b... |
| 21.09.2022 | Why all Americans should be paying attention to Puerto Rico’s power grid | The 3.1 million residents of Puerto Rico found themselves in a depressingly familiar island-wide blackout this week in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. Some of the power has been restored, but 1.1 million customers are still in the dark as of W... |
| 19.09.2022 | FDA and USDA need to get on board with the CDC about reducing antibiotic use in raising animals for food | The overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials in raising farm animals for food may not be equivalent to Covid-19 and climate change as threats to human health, but it is right up there. This practice contributes to antibiotic-resistan... |
| 16.09.2022 | Waste Management, North America's largest trash hauler, wants to shrink plastic pollution | Pallets of goods and towering boxes at a Walmart store. Anonymous
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Flexible plastic accounts for nearly a quarter of all US plastic waste,... |
| 01.09.2022 | 15 of the Most Common Money Wasters | Despite most people’s efforts to avoid debt and not exceed their budget, it can be easy to overspend. Many common money wasters, however, lurk in the shadows, waiting to steal your money. So, let’s bring these money wasters into the light s... |
| 17.08.2022 | Zendure Addresses Energy Insecurity with Semi-Solid State Battery Technology | PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zendure, one of the fastest growing start-ups in the energy tech sector, is on a mission to ensure everyone has access to reliable, affordable energy, and they've brought a new weapon ally in... |
| 07.08.2022 | What’s the environmental impact of EV battery manufacturing and recycling? | One major caveat to the spread of electric vehicles is the question of what we’re going to do with all of these car batteries once their time is up. There’s also concern about the environmental impact of lithium mining, not to mention that ... |
| 16.05.2022 | Vestaron banks $82m Series C funding for its crop-protecting peptides | US biotech startup Vestaron, which is devleoping biological alternatives to chemical-based crop controls using peptides, has raised $82 million in its Series C funding round. |
| 16.05.2022 | Unique All-Electric High-Performance Amphibious Vehicle Design Represents a Paradigm Shift in Transportation | SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) May 16, 2022
Today, POSEIDON AMPHIBWORKS announced the launch of their Regulation Crowdfunding raise for a truly unique vehicle family. POSEIDON is an electric vehicle and marine engineering driven company focusing on affo... |
| 16.05.2022 | BREAKING: Vestaron banks $82m Series C funding for its crop-protecting peptides | US biotech startup Vestaron, which is devleoping biological alternatives to chemical-based crop controls using peptides, has raised $82 million in its Series C funding round.
Private investment officer Ordway Selections and Cavallo Ventures... |
| 08.05.2022 | The Supreme Court's Own Goal on Climate Change | In 1970, Sen. Roman Hruska of Nebraska achieved a dubious immortality when he argued that mediocrity deserves “a little representation” on the Supreme Court in remarks supporting the failed nomination of G. Harrold Carswell. Were he alive t... |
| 04.05.2022 | This California Greenhouse is Run by Robots | (Photo: Iron Ox)A farm technology startup is using robots and artificial intelligence to tackle sustainability concerns in agriculture.
Northern California-based Iron Ox was born from the realization that conventional American agriculture n... |
| 29.04.2022 | ESG, Insurance & Insurtech: An Event | We operate in a free market that values minimal government regulation. We self-regulate; internally, through company values, manifested in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) policies, and externally, through the market forces of suppl... |
| 28.04.2022 | NRDC: Federal policy “must invest” in regen ag to make it a viable climate solution | “We must reverse agriculture’s trajectory. Policy shaped our current situation, and policy can change it.”
So says a new report from US-based nonprofit the Natural Resources Defense Council that examines the role regenerative agriculture ca... |
| 27.04.2022 | Incandescent light bulbs to get switched off in 2023 under new Biden rules | The Biden administration is pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs in favor of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. The phaseout of the old-fashioned bulbs is aimed at reducing utility bills and conserving energy.
The U.S.... |
| 15.04.2022 | FDA needs to follow through on its plan to ban carbadox in animal feed | An antibiotic known as carbadox can damage genes and cause cancer. The European Union, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have banned its use for years. So why does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allow pork producers to keep u... |
| 15.04.2022 | Binance CEO, Other Crypto Bosses Find 'Tide is Turning' on Regulation for Cryptocurrency as Some Governments Start Positive Approach | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 15 April 2022, 11:04 am
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, says that some governments are now taking a more positive approach to the rising crypto sector. The blockchain industry began to rise after the global CO... |
| 06.04.2022 | After years of growing awareness, ReFED director sees a 'rubber-meets-the-road moment' for food waste | In the nearly seven years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture set a federal goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, the amount of research, investment and awareness around tackling this issue... |
| 09.03.2022 | Hospitals need to get ahead of regulations on climate change | Climate change, an issue that hospital leaders should have voluntarily been working on following the catastrophes of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, is soon to be an issue they’ll have to work on, now that the Biden administration has incorpo... |
| 28.02.2022 | BREAKING: S2G leads $12.3m Series A for food rescue app Flashfood | North America-based Flashfood has raised a $12.3 million Series A for its mobile app-based marketplace that partners with stores to “rescue” grocery items bound for the landfill and sell them at heavily discounted prices.
S2G Ventures led t... |
| 17.02.2022 | Carbon is not a dirty word: the case for recarbonizing our soils | Karn Manhas is CEO and founder at Terramera, based in Vancouver, Canada.
I spent much of last year speaking to global leaders about agriculture’s role in turning back the clock on climate change, and two things were consistent throughout: g... |
| 08.02.2022 | Why famous people are joining food tech advisory boards | In the past year, Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has made headlines not only for his movies, but also for his environmental activism.
At the end of 2021, he starred in "Don't Look Up," a movie about a comet heading toward e... |
| 03.02.2022 | Flush with cash, bamboo-based toilet paper company Cloud Paper makes it rain | With toilet paper and kitchen rolls in its product portfolio for now, and a lot more coming down the pipe, Cloud Paper is a sustainable, bamboo-based alternative to toilet paper made from whatever toilet paper is usually made from. The comp... |
| 03.02.2022 | Flush with cash: Bezos and big-name celebs get behind tree-free toilet paper startup with $5M | Tree-free paper towels and toilet paper from Cloud Paper. (Cloud Paper Photo)
The news: Cloud Paper, the Seattle startup that makes toilet paper and paper towels from bamboo in an effort to slow deforestation, has raised $5 million in new f... |
| 27.01.2022 | BREAKING: Danone releases new tool to help farmers measure regen ag’s potential returns | Danone North America has launched a new benchmarking tool for farmers to measure and predict the financial impact of regen ag practices on their operations. Dubbed R3 – for “robust, resilient, reliable” – the digital tool was developed in c... |
| 21.01.2022 | Utilities commission delays vote on controversial California solar proposal | In an unsurprising move, the California Public Utilities Commission has postponed a vote on a controversial proposal that would dramatically change the way the state’s 1.3 million rooftop solar customers get compensated when their systems p... |
| 11.01.2022 | Newsom: ‘More work to be done’ on California net metering solar proposal | Gov. Gavin Newsom indicated revisions will be coming to a controversial proposal that would make dramatic changes to the state’s Net Energy Metering program that affects the 1.3 million Californians who have installed rooftop solar on their... |
| 14.12.2021 | RELEASE: KHANNA, GRIJALVA, QUIGLEY ANNOUNCE LEGISLATION TO REPEAL FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY | Washington, DC- December 13, 2021 - Today, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17), Chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Mike Quigley (IL-05), mem... |
| 13.12.2021 | The value of net-metered solar is up for vote in California | Sometime soon – maybe as soon as today – the nation’s largest rooftop solar power market, residing in the state with the most grid-connected solar, will vote on how to financially compensate over 10 gigawatts of installed, net-metered capac... |
