The market is focused on making money now and isn’t heeding urgent warnings about climate change, our columnist says.
Category: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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China Is Winning in Solar Power, but Its Coal Use Is Raising Alarms
China is building as much clean energy capacity over four years as it had promised to build in 10 years, but continues to add coal-fired power plants.
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Shipping Contributes Heavily to Climate Change. Are Green Ships the Solution?
The container shipping lines that carry the bulk of global trade are betting on greener technologies, but there are still many reasons those wagers could fail.
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Plans to Slash Emissions at Britain’s Largest Steel Plant Cause Unease
Tata Steel wants to close polluting blast furnaces in Port Talbot, Wales, but employees worry that their jobs will go, too.
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Plans to Slash Emissions at Britain’s Largest Steel Plant Cause Unease
Tata Steel wants to close polluting blast furnaces in Port Talbot, Wales, but employees worry that their jobs will go, too.
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Chasing Big Mergers, Oil Executives Dismiss Peak Oil Concerns
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
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Gavin Newsom Wants to Export California’s Climate Laws to the World
The Democratic governor is supercharging climate policy and eyeing a future White House run. But critics say some of his constituents could be left behind.
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Biden Administration Awards $7 Billion for 7 Hydrogen Hubs Across the U.S.
Clean hydrogen could help fight climate change, but it barely exists today. Now the administration wants to build an entire industry from scratch.
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Exxon Acquires Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 Billion
The acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources, Exxon’s largest since its merger with Mobil in 1999, increases the company’s presence in the Permian basin in Texas and New Mexico.
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How Japan’s Salarymen Embraced Short Sleeves Through ‘Cool Biz’
Under “Cool Biz,” salarymen and government workers don short-sleeved shirts in the summer as offices are kept above 82 degrees Fahrenheit to save energy.