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Ending the sale of gas cars by 2030 was a radical idea. What changed?
7 factors driving the switch to electric vehicles.
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Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.
Under pressure from shareholders, Big Tech is finally making device repair easier.
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Batteries are getting cheap. So why aren’t electric vehicles?
In 2015, the average price paid for an EV was around $36,000. Now, it's over $63,000.
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Elon Musk-funded carbon removal prize announces 15 ‘milestone’ winners
More than 1,000 teams have registered for the contest so far.
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The little-known open-source community behind the government’s new environmental justice tool
Inside the White House’s unpublicized experiment in open governance.
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‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out
As western governments untangle themselves from Russian oil and gas, Svitlana Krakovska argues that the roots of the climate crisis and invasion are in fossil fuels.
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How 5G could send weather forecasting back to the 1970s
Plans to expand wireless cellular networks could be bad news for atmospheric science.
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Biden administration could finally define what ‘clean’ manufacturing is
The federal government wants to use its massive buying power to clean up heavy industry.
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The American dream is now a huge electric truck
Carmakers no longer worry that EVs aren’t tough enough to market during the Super Bowl.
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Maybe green energy needs ‘information batteries’ too
Researchers are exploring whether new strategies can get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.
