Tag: April
Heat Pumps Prevail Despite Fickle Federal Policy
The US electric heat pump startup Quilt has expanded from California into 16 US states, indicating a rising demand for energy efficient home HVAC systems despite this year’s U-turn in federal energy policy.
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Is The Plant-Based Food Sector Really Too Woke?
Was the plant-based meat substitute industry wrong to recommend its products as a climate solution? That’s what Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness insists, saying that the approach severely restricted the company’s potential customer base early on. The approach may have contributed to an inevitable pattern of steadily falling US faux … [continued]
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Niagara Falls Storage Site receives another $3M for remediation efforts
The Niagara Falls Storage Site received an additional $3 million from cost-recovery settlements to support ongoing cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater around its radioactive waste containment structure. The current […]
Your Single-Use Plastic Bottles Are Killing Endangered Sea Turtles
Those plastic bottles that are so readily available at convenience stores, groceries, conferences, and sports venues are a real problem: they kill marine creatures. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that plastic ingestion has been documented in nearly 1,300 marine species, including every … [continued]
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China’s Most Updated Autonomous Driving Framework Makes Both Carmakers & Operators (Owners Included) Liable in a Crash
In this week’s CleanTechnica YouTube gathering, fellow CleanTechnica writers Zach Shahan, Larry Evans, José Pontes, and I over-extended the allotted time of 30 minutes and talked for an hour and fifteen. The discussions were continuous and spontaneous, layered, one topic opening up another. One of the points we raised and … [continued]
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