Clean industry
Newsletter: Cleaning up steel, quicker than we thought possible
Plus, game-changing grid equipment and the overhaul of a Trump-era policy bode well for renewables.
Clean industry
Clean industry
How will we power all those green factories?
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Clean industry
Steelmakers forge ahead on cleaning up their notoriously dirty industry
From miners to automakers, steel industry players are starting to come together to make "green steel" the new norm.
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Carbon-free buildings
Cement is terrible for the climate. California just passed a law to fix that
A first-in-the-nation law will force a 40% reduction in the carbon-intensity of cement, which is now responsible for about 8% of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Carbon-free buildings
We already have the low-cost tools we need to cut the carbon hidden in buildings
A new report from RMI shows how materials and technologies available today can slash "embodied carbon" nearly in half.
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Climate crisis
Carbon offset markets aren’t working. A new private-sector reform movement aims to make them better
Will this reboot spur real reductions in carbon emissions — or just usher in another wave of corporate greenwashing?
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Guest Essay
How to green the steel industry? Start with steel buyers
As we push to decarbonize heavy industry, it helps to start with an industry's customers.
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Clean industry
Carbon accounting is hard. These startups want to make it easier
In the absence of policy, can the corporate community decarbonize itself?
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Fossil fuels
California has embraced clean energy, so why is it still building natural gas infrastructure?
Decarbonization advocates are fighting ratepayer subsidies that incentivize the growth of an increasingly obsolete gas system.
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Hydrogen
Newsletter: The physical footprint behind the hydrogen economy hype
If the world goes big on green hydrogen, it would entail a massive buildout of wind and solar.
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Solar
Heliogen goes SPAC to revive concentrated solar power
Will an infusion of cash help the California-based startup resuscitate this neglected technology?
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