A federal judge recently halted construction on a mine because of its potential effects on Indigenous lands. The Hualapai Tribe is suing to stop a lithium mine that threatens a water source. An environmental organization is suing the EPA for failing to enforce air pollution laws. And a Black communityContinue Reading
Photo: Taylor Vick/Unsplash Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most policies concerning the installation, use and maintenance of data centres ignore an important aspect: their environmental impact. They are online 24/7 and require power back-up and a captiveContinue Reading
More than a dozen GOP-led states are suing the Biden administration because it reinstated California’s ability to set vehicle emissions standards. We’ll also look at Republican primaries that could shape the future of climate positioning on the right. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest newsContinue Reading
To lure chip manufacturing behemoths and propel India into a global hub of semiconductors manufacturing, the Union Government recently set up the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM). It also unveiled incentives worth 10 billion USD (Rs 76,000 crores). It seems that the government’s efforts are already yielding results. Earlier this month,Continue Reading
The Hill, Greg Nash Bipartisan energy talks are running full steam ahead while reconciliation remains on ice, and the Biden administration is pitching a new efficiency rule for commercial water heaters. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment andContinue Reading
Faced with increased problems from climate change, cleantech stakeholders believe BC should think bigger still. The stark impacts of climate change are accelerating around the world, and one of the places these impacts been highly evident in the last year is the province of British Columbia. Scientists have alreadyContinue Reading
India’s Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, last week informed parliament that his government was in the process of finalizing a beta version of an Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). He further added that an ONDC will “give opportunity for small retailers to stand up in competition againstContinue Reading
Several environmental groups recently filed a suit (the “Complaint”) challenging two EPA rules (the “PFAS rules”) that added a total of 175 PFAS chemicals to the list of toxic chemicals subject to reporting under what is commonly known as the Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”).1 The lawsuit seeks to remove twoContinue Reading
Several houses along the eastern Indian coast have been impacted by exposure to constant sea erosion, cyclones and other environmental factors. Those living there have abandoned these houses that now lie dilapidated. Some living in these vulnerable areas, close to the Bay of Bengal, voluntarily moved location as the tidalContinue Reading
Plastic pollution now plagues almost every species living in the oceans and, at the same time, sea surface temperatures once considered extreme have now become normal. Those are the findings of two separate studies published in February ahead of the ongoing One Ocean Summit, a conference organized by French PresidentContinue Reading
