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Hope for a Trump Energy Boom Is Marred by Anxiety About Tariffs
Published: March 15, 2025
Energy executives meeting in Houston expressed concerns about President Trump’s trade and economic policy even as they praised him and his administration. Read More.
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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
September 2, 2020
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
September 1, 2020
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
September 1, 2020
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
August 28, 2020
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 […]
August 24, 2020
Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers Jesse Klein Thu, 08/20/2020 – 02:00 Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods, is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. “Food manufacturing has really only scaled up in the last 60 years,” she said. “And that means we’re also working on very antiquated […]
August 20, 2020
Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency Catherine Nabukalu Wed, 08/19/2020 – 01:30 One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. Among several things, he discussed the vital benefit of energy efficiency in working toward environmental sustainability through emissions […]
August 19, 2020
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue started off this year asking farm policy groups how to make U.S. agriculture more innovative. His department enters the last few months with a flood of answers that challenge the Trump administration’s messaging. Read More
August 14, 2020