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Anti-Solar Actions In USA Are Restricting Energy Supply; Right When The Grid Can Least Afford It

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The Trump Administration is waging an unprecedented, cross-agency campaign to restrict clean energy deployment. Between the upending of tax policy, new punitive, anti-solar regulation, and an unabashed pro-fossil fuels agenda, this administration is creating instability that is scaring off investors, weakening grid reliability, and driving up electricity prices. At the same time the … [continued]

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The Pope Asks People To Be More Human

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Why was CleanTechnica created? Why do we have cleantech? What is cleantech? Cleantech is any technology that helps us to significantly reduce pollution, especially pollution leading to global heating and climate change. Air pollution and water pollution hurt people and kill people every day, countless people. They are major problems … [continued]

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GM’s EV Production Retreat Leads To A $1.6 Billion Financial Hit

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As widely reported today, GM announced in a public filing that it is taking on $1.6 billion in charges associated with scaling back US EV manufacturing capacity. The capacity reduction was justified in the filing because “the termination of certain consumer tax incentives for EV purchases and the reduction in … [continued]

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Great Lakes Now

Los Alamos and University of Michigan want to build a national security ‘data center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and local officials see few benefits.

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Los Alamos and University of Michigan want to build a national security ‘data center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and local officials see few benefits.

By Tom Perkins, Inside Climate News

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It’s the first of three articles about Michigan communities organizing to stop the construction of energy-intensive computing facilities.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.