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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• A new house in New York’s Hudson Valley is not only beautiful, it’s Net Zero.
• US military bases are switching to green energy.
• Organic Valley’s Butter Solar Project achieves 100% renewable energy.
• Why utility companies are key players in the fight against climate change.

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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• 21 US states sue Trump administration over relaxed coal restrictions.
• Seattle passes its own Green New Deal.
• A new study has confirmed that solar is now cheaper than grid electricity in China.
• Helsinki, Finland, has launched the Think Sustainably program.

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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• US government offshore wind farm reviews could threaten their development.
• The weakened Endangered Species Act empowers dirty energy.
• Carbon dioxide levels broke global records in 2018.
• Pennsylvania has a new bipartisan-backed Renewable Energy Bill.

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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Al Gore: Climate change is “getting worse faster than we are mobilizing to solve it.”
• Greenland residents are stressed about their diminishing ice.
• 5 innovative ways Australia is recycling.
• Aarhus, Denmark, is the poster child of renewable energy.

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In today’s EGEB:

• US congressman John Larson introduces global climate action and infrastructure bill.
• Leclanche builds largest solar-plus-storage facility in the Caribbean.
• Starbucks achieves 100% renewable energy in Illinois.
• Study shows that tiny-home dwellers reduce energy consumption by 45%.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announces Green New Deal for farmers.
• Amazon launches two sustainable energy projects.
• Shame Plane shows how much Arctic sea ice you’re melting by flying.
• Cape Air provides sustainability benefits for its employees.

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In today’s EGEB:

• LED lighting installed to help homeless in Washington, DC.
• Cleveland is working to achieve 100% clean energy by 2050.
• Hand County, South Dakota, approves a new wind farm.
• We list the Top 5 sectors for renewable-energy jobs.

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In today’s EGEB:

• China’s air pollution is blocking sunshine — and it’s affecting solar.
• Net metering’s popularity is growing in the US, but not everyone is embracing it.
• Some travel companies are working to reduce their carbon footprints.
• Moving house? Make the process more eco-friendly.

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In today’s EGEB:

• July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history — everywhere.
• Drinks giant Diageo goes green in Africa.
• Presidential candidate Jay Inslee: Clean-energy jobs would be “good-paying union jobs.”
• How a small English soccer team became global leaders in the climate-change fight.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Coastal saltwater — a new source of renewable energy?
• The ACEEE releases the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard.
• New Orleans considers wind power, but there is dissent.
• Just 10% of fossil-fuel subsidies could pay for green energy.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Wind energy pioneer Steve Sawyer dies.
• Stationary energy storage installations surge as costs drop.
• The pros and cons of Israel’s sustainability efforts.
• How the Sunrise Movement fueled serious action on climate change.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Andrew Yang says Americans need to move to higher ground.
• Solar energy projects replace agriculture in California due to drought.
• More than half of UK councils declare a “climate emergency.”
• Scientists’ motivations to live sustainably: head, heart, or both?

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In today’s EGEB:

• Another California gas-fired plant is looking toward solar and battery storage for its future.
• China is funding more renewables abroad! And also, coal.
• Earth Overshoot Day lands earlier than ever.
• DC moves to streamline solar installations.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Australia is quickly becoming a world renewable energy leader.
• North Dakota unveils its first solar farm.
• Scotland opens its largest offshore wind farm.
• High schoolers learning the solar industry in Philadelphia.

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In today’s EGEB:

• The largest wind/solar/storage project in the US is coming to Oklahoma.
• Senators introduced the American Energy Efficiency Act of 2019.
• A California natural gas company earns astroturfing accusations.
• Guess who’s spent millions lobbying against the Green New Deal?

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In today’s EGEB:

• Wind power has passed coal in electricity generation so far this year in Texas.
• A newly demonstrated technology can make carbon-neutral fuels from a rooftop solar refinery.
• Renewables + nuclear made up more than 50% of UK electricity last year.
• One of the oldest utilities in the US vows to go carbon-free by 2050.

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In today’s EGEB:

• A 302 megawatt Texas wind farm reaches completion.
• A Japanese corporation invests in a blockchain platform that enables wind, solar purchases.
• Pakistan aims for 20% renewable energy capacity with new projects.
• Another new poll shows support for the Green New Deal.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Ohio votes for a bill that will bail out nuclear plants and offer coal subsidies while cutting renewable funding.
• The importance of building renewable energy to complement existing ecosystems.
• A Washington State wildfire was started by a wind turbine.
• Maryland is getting an offshore wind energy staging center.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Berkeley, California becomes the first US city to ban natural gas in new homes.
• Africa’s largest wind farm launches in Kenya.
• A new consortium looks into high-wave offshore solar technology.
• Melbourne’s trams to run on 100% solar power.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Solar developers are stockpiling panels ahead of the tax credit phaseout.
• A former Australian prime minister calls wind turbines “satanic.”
• A bill to increase renewables on public lands in the US.
• A look at a cost-effective zero energy home.

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In today’s EGEB:

• Five Georgia regulators, all Republicans, call for more solar — and to shut down coal.
• A porous, recyclable silicon battery said to offer more energy density, longer life, for half the price of lithium.
• New York awards offshore wind contracts to Equinor, Orsted.
• Hawaiian Electric looks to build more than 900 new megawatts of solar generation.

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