Environment
‘Green’ places of work in London are about 25% a lot more highly-priced. But a modern workforce now expects it
Employee fulfillment is a big motivator for organizations to go inexperienced, notably as the U.K. faces its tightest labor current market in a long time. Hiroshi Watanabe / Getty Pictures LONDON — A fifth of the world’s most significant firms have fully commited to achieving net-zero carbon emissions, according to evaluation by the Electricity and […]
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Food fraud secretly infiltrates kitchens across America — here’s how to avoid it
The food in your kitchen cabinets may not be what it seems. “I guarantee you any time a product can be passed off as something more expensive, it will be. It’s that simple,” Larry Olmsted, author of “Real Food/Fake Food,” told CNBC. Fraudsters motivated by economic gain secretly infiltrate the global food market through a […]
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IEA says clean energy manufacturing set for substantial growth as world enters ‘new industrial age’
Wind turbine blades photographed at a facility in China’s Hebei Province on July 15, 2022. The world’s second largest economy is a major force in technologies crucial to the planned energy transition. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images The world is moving into “a new age of clean technology manufacturing” that could be […]
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Burning Gentleman sues Biden administration over geothermal challenge
A bagpipe player and a tummy dancer on stilts, participants in the “Burning Gentleman” competition, cross a segment of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Mike Nelson | AFP | Getty Photographs Organizers of the art and cultural competition Burning Man and many environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) […]
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Oil companies sue Los Angeles over ban on oil and gas drilling
An oil pumpjack operates in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images An oil company with a drilling operation in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against the city over its law to ban new wells and phase out all drilling within city […]
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Powell reiterates Fed is not going to become a ‘climate policymaker’
Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Jerome H. Powell participates in a panel during a Central Bank Symposium at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 10, 2023. Claudio Bresciani | TT | via Reuters Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the central bank will not get involved […]
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The Earth’s ozone layer is slowly and gradually recovering, UN report finds
In this NASA untrue-color impression, the blue and purple reveals the hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer about Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly and gradually but significantly therapeutic at a rate that would absolutely mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 yrs, a new United Nations report says. […]
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Biden declares emergency in California as more winter storms advance
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House January 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Monday declared an emergency in California after a barrage of deadly winter storms have prompted widespread power outages and flooding since last week. […]
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India is learning to love electric vehicles — but they’re not cars
Electric vehicle charging stations from Tata Power can be found on 350 of the 600 highways in India. Puneet Vikram Singh, Nature And Concept Photographer, | Moment | Getty Images When most people think about electric vehicles, they think cars. From brands like Tesla and Rivian in the United States, to Nio and XPeng in […]
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Biden proposes tougher limits on deadly soot pollution
Seen from the window of an Amtrak train, smoke billows up from power plants alongside the tracks in Northern Virginia. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed a rule that would strengthen federal limits on industrial soot, one of the country’s most deadly air pollutants that […]
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