Newsletter Subscribe
Enter your email address below and subscribe to our newsletter
Undercover Investigations Will Be Legal Again at Iowa Animal Farms
On Thursday the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the Iowa Ag-Gag law, holding that the ban on undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses violates the First Amendment. In 2017, a coalition of animal, environmental and…
Joshua Tree National Park Announces Closure After Trees Destroyed Amid Shutdown
Maintenance and sanitation problems also reported 18 days after government shutdown furloughed the vast majority of park staff. Volunteers helping tourists at the Joshua Tree National Park in California. A day after this story was published, National Park Service announced…
Hydrogen Train on Track for 2022 Arrival in UK
Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new gas-powered train, which has been codenamed ‘Breeze’ Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new hydrogen-powered passenger train. The train, codenamed ‘Breeze’, will be a conversion of…
Waste-To-Energy Test Plant Takes out the Trash in Rio
The test facility produces enough biogas each month to power a fleet of 1,000 cars. Rio de Janeiro is taking out the trash with a new pilot waste-to-energy plant. The City Company of Urban Cleaning (Comlurb) has built a test facility capable…
600+ Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
On Thursday more than 600 environmental groups called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pursue ambitious climate legislation that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis. The groups’ letter calls for a thoughtful phaseout of fossil fuel production, a transition…
Dubai Is Busy Embracing Solar Energy
If there’s one resource that Dubai has in abundance, it’s sunshine. Not surprisingly, the city, set in a sun-drenched desert, has set out to exploit that inexhaustible resource for clean energy generation. The United Arab Emirates, to which Dubai belongs,…
World’s Largest Solar + Battery Plant Unveiled in Hawaii
Hawaii has a new, game-changing tool in its renewable energy arsenal. Power producer AES Corporation and the not-for-profit Kaua’i island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) unveiled what’s claimed to be the world’s largest solar-plus-storage peaker on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, the Lāwa’i Solar and Energy Storage Project. This is…