CNBC moderated a panel on Monday at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC). The panel consisted of heads of Big Oil and Big Gas. The CEOs spent their time defending their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and intim…
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Climate Crisis Weekly: Virginians showed they care about climate change on voting day, more
Virginia Democrats campaigned on fighting the climate crisis and won.
The official word[s] of the year for 2019? “Climate strike.”
New Zealand passes a law that sets 2050 as its net zero target year.
An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island …
EGEB: Colorado can go zero-carbon with big savings, UK reducing heavy industry CO2, more
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Analysis shows Colorado can go zero-carbon with big savings for Coloradans.
UK to spend £315 million to reduce heavy industry emissions.
Bipartisan US Senate Climate Solutions Caucus grows to 8 members.
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Bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus grows to 8 members
The US Senate’s bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus added six new members on Wednesday, bringing the total number of members to eight. And on Thursday, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates paid them a visit on Capitol Hill.
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EGEB: Los Angeles approves largest solar and storage system in the US, more
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Los Angeles has approved the largest solar and storage system in the US — enough for nearly 1 million residents.
Italy is going to make climate-change study mandatory in state schools.
A new report names…
Italy to make climate-change study mandatory in state schools
Italian education minister Lorenzo Fioramonti (pictured above) confirmed that, starting in 2020, Italy will become the world’s first country to make it compulsory for children to study climate change and sustainability in school, in an exclusive inter…
EGEB: Kentucky’s new Democratic governor still backs coal, more
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Kentucky elected Democrat Andy Beshear yesterday as their new governor. What’s his stance on green energy?
Australia’s main grid reaches 50% green energy for the first time.
Bristol becomes t…
UK High Court rules London’s climate-crisis protest ban unlawful
The UK’s High Court has ruled that a Metropolitan Police ban of the climate-crisis protests held by activism group Extinction Rebellion (XR) in October was unlawful.
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Maine Sen. Angus King on US Paris Agreement pull-out: ‘We’ve abdicated our global leadership’
Senator Angus King (I-ME) commented today on yesterday’s announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of the US’s “formal process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.”
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EGEB: Royal Dutch Shell buys a green energy company, US formally withdraws from Paris Agreement
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Royal Dutch Shell is buying French green energy company EOLFI.
Mike Pompeo announces the US’s formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
More than 11,000 scientists endorse a letter that warns of …
