energy industry
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The U.S.’s First-Ever Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Ban Is Even More Important Than It Seems
A refinery community in Washington passed a ban on constructing new fossil fuel infrastructure, becoming the first county in the U.S. to enact such a policy. It’s a policy exactly in line with what science has shown is necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Could the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?
This week’s question — could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy? — is shadowed by a much larger one: Namely, will politicians and powerful forces of delay like Big Oil ever allow the world to run entirely on renewable energy? For the most part, we have put that larger question aside for this…