Michelle Lewis is a writer at Electrek. She has previously worked for Fast Company, The Guardian, News Deeply, Time, and others. She lives in Massachusetts.
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Nike’s new CEO, John Donahoe, talked about climate change and sustainability on CNBC’s Closing Bell, and what the sports giant is doing to reduce emissions and promote sustainability.
Nike will be dressing its 2020 Olympic athletes in uniforms and athletic shoes made of recycled polyester and ground-up shoe parts. The company unveiled the US basketball, skateboarding, track and field, and soccer uniforms yesterday.
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British prime minister Boris Johnson announced that a ban in the UK on selling diesel and petrol cars would be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at a launch event for the November UN climate summit (COP26) in Glasgow. The new ban now includes hybrid and plug-in vehicles.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) shut down its last operating unit at its Paradise Fossil Plant (pictured) in western Kentucky this week. Paradise was one of TVA’s biggest coal plants.
The TVA was created during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933 to bring power and economic development to one of the areas of the US hit hardest by the Great Depression.
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Investor Ron Baron is chairman and CEO of Baron Capital, which holds nearly 1.63 million Tesla shares. This morning, he discussed why Tesla’s stocks are doing so well on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
Tesla reported revenue last week of $24.6 billion in 2019. As my Electrek colleague Fred Lambert pointed out, Tesla’s (TSLA) stock jumped again in pre-market trading this morning to $900 a share.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have published a new paper in the journal ACS Photonics that says “anti-solar panels” can generate night solar electricity.
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Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, cofounder of The Street, and former stockbroker and hedge fund manager, declared fossil fuels dead after oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron reported Q4 earnings this morning.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed leasing two-thirds of Slickrock for oil and gas drilling, even though it has very low potential to produce.
The world-famous, nearly 11 mile-long, mountain-biking Slickrock trail near Moab, Utah, takes e-bike and non-e-bike riders over stunning petrified sand dunes and sea bed remnants.
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Duke Energy has announced that it will build two new solar farms in Florida, in Hamilton and Columbia Counties.
The utilities giant is investing an estimated $1 billion to construct or acquire a total of 700 MW of solar farms from 2018 through 2022 in Florida, and planning for another 1,500 MW of solar generation through 2028.
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China is the world’s No. 1 largest creator of single-use plastic waste. The United States has the “honor” of being No. 2. Last week, China announced that it will ban single-use plastics across the country. The US has no federal plan to ban single-use plastics.
And only eight US states have banned single-use plastic bags.
Melrose, Massachusetts, won the 2019 SolSmart Innovation Award. SolSmart is funded by the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office.
The city, with a population of around 27,000 and located in the Boston metropolitan area, won the award because it chose to expand beyond the residential market to nonprofits, places of worship, and small businesses by the end of 2019.
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The US and Europe clashed over the climate crisis at Davos on Friday, with US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin saying during the summit’s final panel, “Let’s call it an environmental issue and not climate change.”
This was in response to Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, saying it was of utmost importance to include climate risk in economic forecasts.
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Boston-based sustainability nonprofit group Ceres has launched the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, a new group to help companies accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
The Alliance’s flagship members are Amazon, AT&T, Clif Bar, Consumers Energy, DHL, Direct Energy, Genentech, IKEA North America, LeasePlan, Lime, and Siemens.