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China accounts for more than half of global emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a gas 24,300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and fixing the leak would cost a tiny fraction of the country's annual grid spending.
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Catastrophe modelers estimate a re-run of the Great Miami Hurricane would now cause around $280 billion in damage, more than Hurricane Katrina, reflecting a 23-fold increase in the region's population since 1926.
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Ofgem wants battery storage developers to pay new security fees to hold their place in a grid connection queue that is running many times larger than the UK actually needs.
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Canada eliminated its human rights ombudsperson for overseas corporate misconduct, shifting oversight of mining and garment companies to an office critics say lacks independence and investigative power.
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A survey of 302 Zambian prison inmates finds most turned to poaching out of opportunity or hardship, not organized greed, challenging standard assumptions about wildlife crime.
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Households inside two protected wildlife corridors in Vietnam's Annamite mountains earned about 25% more than their neighbors outside, largely thanks to conservation payments and ecotourism jobs.
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France's Tiamat plans Europe's first sodium-ion battery gigafactory as manufacturers look to sodium's abundant supply to loosen China's roughly 80% grip on global battery production.
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A Texas school board's unanimous vote clears a key tax hurdle for Tesla's planned 10.1 billion dollar solar cell and module factory near Houston.
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Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar says Turkey will invest $28 billion in transmission infrastructure by 2035, nearly doubling grid capacity to support a target of 120 gigawatts of wind and solar.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, completing the rollback of federal emissions rules for power plants built up under the Obama and Biden administrations.
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A new industry report finds that short electricity export licenses in Indonesia and Malaysia clash with the decades-long financing that cross-border clean power projects need, complicating Singapore's push to import 6 gigawatts of clean electricity by 2035.
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Revolution Wind's last turbine is now installed off Rhode Island, completing a $6.2 billion project the Trump administration twice tried to halt before courts overturned the orders.
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