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Here Are Some Crucial Climate Actions You Can Take To Protect The Environment In 2026
Our eyes need to be on the environment in 2026. No longer will we accept individual guilt for climate degradation. Yes, changing behaviors is a starting place to protect the environment, but we can only achieve about one-tenth of the emissions-reduction potential that corporations need to adopt, says the World ... [continued]
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China Built A Supercritical CO₂ Generator. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last.
China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation, and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough. The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat ... [continued]
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A Green Hydrogen Innovator In Oklahoma Has A Message For Texas: Hold My Beer
Texas has emerged as a hotbed of green hydrogen activity in the US, supported in part by know-how borrowed from the oil and gas industry. Now another iconic fossil fuel state, Oklahoma, is jockeying for a piece of the action. A case in point is the Oklahoma City startup Tobe ... [continued]
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Chinese Solar Panels Are Transforming Africa
China is supplying low cost solar panels to many African nations, including South Africa. Doing so also increases its political power.
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Loads Of Renewable Energy Can Be Stored In The Air (Liquid Air, That Is)
The idea of storing renewable energy in a tank of liquid air has been bubbling under the CleanTechnica radar ever since the UK firm Highview Power proposed building one such facility in Vermont back in 2019. That project never materialized, but the dream of air-sourced, long duration energy storage refuses ... [continued]
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India’s KP Group to Invest INR 36,000 Crore in Botswana’s Renewable Energy Sector
Agreement signed between KP Group and the Government of Botswana MoU targets development of renewable energy projects with nearly 5 GW capacity KP Group to offer 30 annual scholarships for Botswana citizens MATAR (GUJARAT), India — KP Group, a leading renewable energy company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ... [continued]
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Austin Cuts Pedestrian Crashes At 16 Intersections ~50%
Cutting car crashes, injuries, and deaths is a perennial goal in city after city and state after state. Little things get implemented to help, sometimes big things, but it’s never enough. It’s often a case of two steps forward, two steps back. However, the city of Austin seems to be ... [continued]
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Our Biggest CleanTechnica Food & Climate Stories For 2025
We learned a lot in 2025 about how the way we eat affects our climate and environment. Many of us started to rethink our food choices in relation to a warming climate. A number of 2025 studies were released that chronicled the intersection of food and climate emissions, and, over ... [continued]
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Wowza — NYC Congestion Pricing Cut Pollution 22% In Just 6 Months!
It took years, but New York City (NYC) finally implemented congestion pricing on January 5, 2025. (That’s 22 years after London first implemented it.) Aimed at cutting pollution in the city, would it work? Yes, it would! Paul Day of Air Quality News shares that a Cornell University study has ... [continued]
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From Models to Money: Reflections on a Year of Practical Decarbonization
Before diving into a reflection on the year, it feels important to start with gratitude. None of this work happens in isolation. Over the past year, an extraordinary number of people took the time to share their expertise, challenge my assumptions, correct my mistakes, and patiently help me understand subjects ... [continued]
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Google AI Giving Wrong Information On US EV Tax Credit
If you’ve used AI from Google, ChatGPT, or elsewhere to try to get answers to a variety of queries, you’ve probably noticed some odd and incorrect information some of the time. Part of the problem with this, to me, is that the answers are provided in an authoritative way that ... [continued]
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China Gets World’s Largest Offshore Solar PV Project While USA … I Better Not Speak
When I started covering the solar industry, the largest solar power project in the world had 100 megawatts (MW) of power capacity. This month, the largest offshore solar PV project build in the open sea (not a lake) was deployed, and it’s rated at 1,000 MW, or one gigawatt. Naturally, ... [continued]
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Words Of Wisdom For The End Of A Chaotic Year
Words have the power to change the world. Here is a collection of thoughts from across time by some of our greatest thinkers.
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What Falling Sales? BEVs Jump 37% YoY in November in Europe!
BEVs reach 24% market share! EVs are picking up in Europe, with some 370,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in November, 258,000 of them being BEVs. Overall, plugin vehicles were up 36% YoY. Expect December 2025 to establish a new record score, maybe even above the 425,000 unit mark. ... [continued]
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Noble Environmental Announces Sale of $34.8 Million in Investment Tax Credits, and Commercial Operations of 3 New RNG Facilities
CANONSBURG, Pennsylvania — Noble Environmental, Inc. (“Noble”) completed the sale of approximately $34.8 million in Investment Tax Credits (“ITCs”) generated by two of its renewable natural gas (“RNG”) facilities, along with the commencement of commercial operations at three new facilities, two of which were included in the transaction. The three ... [continued]
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