This Canadian city is finding rare earth minerals needed for the green transition through recycling

Tommy MalettaSustainability News, Resource Efficiency, Latest Headlines

By Chris Arsenault, Corporate Knights Kingston has become a burgeoning hub of start-ups processing and recycling critical minerals for the North American market in a challenge to China’s EV supply chain dominance. Inside a sprawling warehouse in Kingston, Ontario, a forklift beeps past huge cardboard boxes full of discarded electric …

How Europe reduced its greenhouse gas emissions last year

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By Kate Abnett, Reuters BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) – The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5% last year, official data published this week showed, continuing a trend of declining emissions in Europe. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, where climate change is already worsening droughts, wildfires …

To aid the green energy transition, we need to modernize our grid infrastructure

Tommy MalettaResource Efficiency, Greentech, Latest Headlines

By Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), The Hill While it’s true that some things get better with age, the United States’ aging transmission infrastructure is not one of them. Updated transmission infrastructure is crucial to reducing emissions and ensuring dependable electricity service. Congress has passed green energy laws to help make …

Their batteries hurt the environment, but EVs still beat gas cars. Here’s why

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By Camila Domonoske, NPR Electric vehicles are sometimes called “zero-emission vehicles.” But the batteries that go into them are not zero-emission at all. In fact, making those batteries takes a lot of (mostly-not-clean) energy and hurts the environment in other ways, a fact that’s become common knowledge after widespread media coverage. Does that environmental damage cancel …

Natural disasters are scaring property insurers away. States are trying to help

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Fast Company Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news—their property insurance won’t be renewed because their insurance company has deemed the risk too high. It’s a problem that has played out in states across the U.S. as climate change and increasing development has …