House Republicans took aim at the country’s bedrock environmental policy in their first meeting in charge of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of the energy sector under President Biden and pushing for sweeping action to boost gas production. “We need to be doingContinue Reading
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Among the many complex arguments over water in California, one particularly heated debate centers on whether the state should seek more drinking water from a plentiful but expensive source: the Pacific Ocean. The debate has reached a critical stage in Huntington Beach, where Poseidon Water hasContinue Reading
Tata Steel commissioned a 5 tonnes per day (TPD) carbon capture plant at its Jamshedpur Works, making it the country’s first steel company to adopt such a carbon capture technology that extracts CO2 directly from the Blast Furnace gas. Tata Steel will reuse the captured CO2 on site to promoteContinue Reading
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A Chinese-backed consortium building infrastructure for a massive iron ore mine in Guinea started blasting a railway tunnel in a habitat for a critically endangered chimpanzee species with no plan in place to manage the impact on the animals, company and government statements and satelliteContinue Reading
A group of environmental organizations urged Gov. Roy Cooper to deny any future permits for the wood pellet industry, which sees North Carolina trees chopped down and ground up to replace coal in European power plants. Wood pellets were billed as a cleaner-burning replacement for coal by industry officials, butContinue Reading
