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How Alienating American Allies & Emptying US Wallets Reduced Jet Fuel Burn

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Donald Trump, in his glorious return to the Oval Office in January 2025, managed to do what no climate policy has achieved in decades: reduce transborder aviation emissions. Not by design, of course. He wouldn’t be caught dead attending a COP summit unless it was hosted at Mar-a-Lago and came … [continued]

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EVs Take 24.4% Share In France — Renault 5 Unassailable?

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March’s auto sales saw plugin EVs take 24.4% share in France, a drop from 27.9% year-on-year. The YoY baseline was elevated by a pull-forward ahead of incentive cut-offs, so the YoY comparison is temporarily skewed. On a normalized basis, BEVs continue to climb, albeit slowly. PHEVs are down YoY due … [continued]

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It’s Super Bowl Weekend — Yay! But What Are Sports Doing About Mega-Event Emissions?

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Advertisers pay around $8 million for a 30-second Super Bowl ad slot, and the NFL makes hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from the Super Bowl. They’re awfully entertaining, of course, but we often overlook the environmental impact of the Super Bowl as a mega-event in all the hoopla. … [continued]

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