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Several companies and the nation’s top lobbying force for wind are banding together to form a new clean energy group. Read More

The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills Jim Giles Fri, 09/04/2020 – 00:15 How about this for a series of maddening statistics? Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon […]

The Trump administration has moved closer to approving one of the last major renewable energy projects that it has prioritized completing by year’s end. Read More

The apparel and footwear maker said it will source 100% of its natural materials, including leather, rubber, cotton, wool and sugarcane derivatives, from regenerative agriculture in the next decade. Read More

The Defense Department will soon begin testing every military firefighter’s blood for a class of chemicals tied to health problems, including cancer. But the testing leaves out veterans, and there’s no standard for how much PFAS in the blood is too much. Read More

Alabama utility regulators agreed today to let the state’s largest electric company raise a controversial rooftop solar surcharge, going against the wishes of environmental advocates who say the fee will hurt solar’s growth. Read More

India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilizes trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.N. chief said today. Read More

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance Joel Makower Mon, 08/24/2020 – 02:11 One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, “sustainability” is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory […]