"Electric Vehicles Close To ‘Tipping Point’ Of Mass Adoption"
"Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption thanks to the plummeting cost of batteries, experts say."
Source: Guardian, 01/25/2021
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"Biden Halts Oil And Gas Leases, Permits on US Land And Water"
"The Biden administration announced Thursday a 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters, as officials moved quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment."
Source: AP, 01/22/2021
"Biden's First 100 Days: What's Coming On Energy"
"President Biden took swift action to deliver on his promise to embrace green energy hours after he was sworn into office yesterday, mandating a review of regulatory rollbacks that were part of the Trump administration's efforts to boost the fossil fuel industry."
Source: E&E News, 01/22/2021
"Electric Car Batteries With Five-Minute Charging Times Produced"
"Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a factory for the first time, marking a significant step towards electric cars becoming as fast to charge as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles."
Source: Guardian, 01/21/2021
"Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push"
"Donald Trump pushed through controversial oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of his last acts as president—but legal observers say the chance that oil development actually proceeds there is slim."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/21/2021
US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
"Methane leaking out of the more than 4 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States and Canada is a far greater contributor to climate change than government estimates suggest, researchers from McGill University said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 01/21/2021
"Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
"While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares the incoming president’s climate change agenda, the Canadian leader is also a pipeline proponent."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021
"Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert catastrophic global warming, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that were weakened or rolled back by former President Donald J. Trump."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021
China's 2020 Coal Output Highest Since 2015, Undermining Climate Pledges
"China's coal output rose last year to its highest since 2015, despite Beijing's climate change pledge to reduce consumption of the dirty fossil fuel and months of disruption at major coal mining hubs."
Source: Reuters, 01/20/2021
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