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Intersolar & Energy Storage North America Unveils Interactive Programming to Enhance Education and Networking

Intersolar & Energy Storage North America, the premier U.S. tradeshow and conference series for solar, energy storage, EV infrastructure, and manufacturing, today announced onsite activities that enhance education, collaboration, and connection at its Flagship event on February 18-20 at the San Diego Convention Center. “As the industry navigates administrative headwinds ... [continued]

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Lynk & Co Launches “The New 08 Limit Less” Campaign and a New in‑Car App Designed to Encourage Electric‑First Driving

Gothenburg, Sweden — Lynk & Co launches its new dedicated marketing campaign: “The New 08. Limit Less”, celebrating a milestone product for the European market. “The New 08. Limit Less” campaign reignites the conversation around the Lynk & Co 08 by spotlighting range as a driver of flow – uninterrupted, ... [continued]

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Gleiche Länge, unterschiedliche Logik: Chinas industrielle Wasserstoffpipeline im Vergleich zu Deutschlands Backbone

Der Vergleich zwischen Deutschlands Wasserstoff-Backbone von nirgendwo nach nirgendwo und Chinas angeblich über 1.000 km langer Wasserstoffpipeline taucht immer wieder auf und wird oft als Beleg dafür gerahmt, dass Deutschland lediglich früh dran sei und nicht falsch liege. Das ist eine berechtigte Frage, denn aus der Distanz wirken beide Projekte ... [continued]

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Think Globally, Stack Locally

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Resident Fellow for Global and Democratic Governance at the Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFRLab) at the Atlantic Council. Together, they discuss:

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Now We Begin

Yesterday, Customer Commons and MyData Global launched MyTerms at a London event correctly titled The Only Way to Get Real Privacy Online. (I explain only and real at that link.)

MyTerms is the nickname for 7012-2025 – IEEE Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms. Links:

The text of the standard has a lot of prerequisite formal stuff up front. Here are the main parts:

  • The Introduction, starting on page 8.
  • Sections 4 and 5, starting on page 14.
  • The top Annexes, starting on page 21

Note that the Introduction and the Annexes are informative, meaning not part of the standard itself. Between them is the normative, or operative, part of the standard.

The standard itself is simple. Here is a diagram that predates the one in the standard, but says the same thing:

This is how it works:

  1. The person, acting as the first party, proffers an agreement to an entity (website, service, or organization of any kind), acting as the second party. The agreement is a contract. Note that the person here is neither a “user” nor a “client,” but rather a self-sovereign human being operating at full agency.
  2. The agreement chosen is one of a short list posted at the website of a neutral nonprofit, such as Customer Commons. This is on the Creative Commons model. MyTerms is to personal privacy agreements what Creative Commons is to personal copyrights.
  3. On the Creative Commons model, agreements are readable by ordinary folk, by lawyers, and by machines. MyTerms addresses the third of those.
  4. This ceremony is conducted by agents on both sides. These agents can be as simple as browser and web server plugins, or as fancy as personal and corporate AIs. The standard leaves these choices open.
  5. Both parties keep identical records of the agreement, for compliance auditing and dispute resolutions, should those needs arise
  6. The first party can also keep a record of which second parties passively or actively don’t agree.

Obviously, this obsolesces cookie notices, and establishes much more solid grounds for relationships between people and organizations, customers and companies, demand and supply.

If you want to dig wider and deeper, here are three textual sources:

And here is the MyTerms video collection at YouTube. We have two so far:

There will be more. I look forward to not being able to keep up with all of it.

If you want to get involved, Customer Commons is forming the MyTerms Alliance. More at that link.

If you want to join the conversation space out of which both Customer Commons and MyTerms were spawned, join the ProjectVRM mailing list, which has been going since I set it up as a new fellow of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard in 2006. The entire archive is here. And we thank the BKC for its extreme patience with what began as a one-year project. 🙂

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Insurance Gas Car Rental: Like a Time-Warp after Owning a Tesla Model 3 with FSD

Note: I believe Donald Trump has done unthinkable damage to our country and to our relations with other countries. I was sadly disappointed when Elon Musk supported his run for reelection in spite of Trump getting in bed with fossil fuel companies. Musk’s behavior as leader of the DOGE agency ... [continued]

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Acknowledgments

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateAndy Cerda, Research AnalystJoseph Copeland, Research AnalystShanay Gracia,Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research Analyst Communications and editorial […]

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The ‘Social Media Addiction’ Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself

This week, a major trial kicked off in Los Angeles in which hundreds of families sued Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, accusing the companies of intentionally designing their products to be addictive (though Snap and TikTok both settled on the eve of the trial) . From the Guardian:

For the first time, a huge group of parents, teens and school districts is taking on the world’s most powerful social media companies in open court, accusing the tech giants of intentionally designing their products to be addictive. The blockbuster legal proceedings may see multiple CEOs, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, face harsh questioning.

A long-awaited series of trials kicks off in Los Angeles superior court on Tuesday, in which hundreds of US families will allege that Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube’s platforms harm children. Once young people are hooked, the plaintiffs allege, they fall prey to depression, eating disorders, self-harm and other mental health issues. Approximately 1,600 plaintiffs are included in the proceedings, involving more than 350 families and 250 school districts.

The lawyers involved are explicitly using the tobacco playbook, comparing social media to cigarettes. But there’s an important point here: “social media addiction” isn’t actually a recognized clinical addiction. And a fascinating new study in Nature’s Scientific Reports suggests that our collective insistence on using addiction language might actually be making things worse for users who want to change their behavior.

The researchers conducted two studies. In the first, they surveyed a nationally representative sample of adult Instagram users and found something striking: only about 2% of users showed symptoms that would put them at risk for addiction based on the clinical criteria in the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale. But when asked directly if they felt addicted, 18% of users agreed at least somewhat. In other words, people are dramatically overestimating whether they’re actually addicted.

This matters a lot, because calling yourself addicted can have serious consequences. The study found that users who perceived themselves as more addicted (but not necessarily more habitual) reported feeling less control over their use and had made more unsuccessful attempts to change their behavior. From the study:

Self-labeling of clinical conditions (e.g., I think I’m depressed) has proved to be associated with maladaptive responses, including lowered self-efficacy and perceived control over the pathology

To test whether the addiction framing actually causes these problems rather than just correlating with them, the researchers ran a second study. They had some participants reflect on their own “addictive” Instagram use after reading language from the U.S. Surgeon General’s somewhat questionable report warning that “frequent, excessive social media use is addictive.” The control group answered the same questions but without the addiction framing first.

The results were clear and somewhat striking: simply priming people to think about their social media use as an addiction reduced their perceived control, increased both self-blame and blaming the app, and made them recall more failed attempts to cut back. The addiction framing itself creates a feeling of helplessness! The addiction to “addiction framing” may be a big part of the problem!

It is impressive that even the two-minute exposure to addiction framing in our research was sufficient to produce a statistically significant negative impact on users. This effect is aligned with past literature showing that merely seeing addiction scales can negatively impact feelings of well-being. Presumably, continued exposure to the broader media narrative around social media addiction has even larger and more profound effects. In conclusion, the addiction label does not empower users to regain control over their use. Instead, it hinders users by reducing feelings of control, increasing self-blame, and making the experience slightly less positive.

Perhaps one could argue that everyone screaming about social media addiction is doing more real harm than any actual social media product itself.

This matters because for the vast majority of heavy social media users, the problem isn’t addiction in any clinical sense. It’s habit. Habits and addictions are different psychological phenomena requiring different interventions. As the researchers note:

For the majority of social media users, however, curbing excessive use involves primarily controlling habits. Like any other habit, social media habits can become misaligned with the original motivations for use (e.g., to obtain social rewards), or conflict with other goals (e.g., sharing true information). Strong habits are notoriously difficult to control with willpower alone. For habitual social media users, the narrative of addiction and willpower-based attempts to control behavior could profitably be replaced with habit change strategies to realign their social media use with their current preferences.

Habits are context-triggered automatic behaviors. You pick up your phone in certain situations because you’ve done it a thousand times before, not because you’re experiencing withdrawal symptoms or uncontrollable cravings, like an addiction. And habit change strategies—like removing triggers, changing your environment, or practicing substitute activities—are fundamentally different from addiction treatment.

But you wouldn’t know any of this from the media coverage. The researchers analyzed three years of news articles and found that stories about “social media addiction” vastly outnumber stories about “social media habits.” The addiction framing is everywhere. And every time the Surgeon General warns about addiction, every time a lawsuit alleges platforms are designed to be addictive, every time a news story describes teens as hooked, it reinforces the idea that users are powerless victims.

Indeed, the study found that the very lawsuits that went to trial this week are likely contributing to the problem.

In addition, over the 36 assessment months, the number of articles discussing “social media habits” never approached the number of articles including the term “social media addiction” (see Fig. 2). The stories driving these effects were often lawsuits. For example, the May 2022 and October 2024 peaks for “social media addiction” related to news reporting on multiple lawsuits against Meta (owners of Instagram). In addition, the May 2023 Surgeon General’s warning about social media addiction seems to have contributed to the steady drumbeat of new articles during the April-June 2023 period for “social media addiction.”

To be clear: most social media companies absolutely design their products with increasing engagement in mind. There are plenty of corporate incentives to keep you using the app longer. And some people genuinely do use social media in ways that harm their lives. Both things can be true while “addiction” remains the wrong frame. The question is whether calling it an addiction actually helps anyone, or whether it just makes people feel powerless.

But there’s a meaningful difference between “this product is designed to form habits” and “this product is chemically addictive like heroin.” A chemical addiction involves tolerance, withdrawal, and physiological dependence. The study found that only about 4% of users reported experiencing anything akin to withdrawal symptoms (restlessness or trouble when prohibited from using) often or very often. The most common “symptom” was simply thinking about Instagram a lot—which probably describes anyone who uses any service frequently.

I think about Techdirt a lot. Am I “addicted” to it?

The addiction framing removes human agency from the equation. It treats users as helpless victims who can’t possibly resist the siren song of the infinite scroll. But the same study that found 2% of users at risk for addiction also found that 50% of frequent users recognized they had habits around Instagram use. Those users aren’t powerless. They can change their environment, their cues, their routines. But first they have to believe that’s possible—and the addiction narrative tells them it isn’t.

Misclassifying frequent social media and technology use as addictive has muddled public understanding of the psychology behind these behaviors and likely inhibits users’ understanding of the ways to effectively control their own behavior.

It also makes the technology appear inherently harmful, when (as pretty much every study keeps showing) only a very small percentage of people seem to have truly negative experiences with it. That should be cause to create targeted solutions for those who are genuinely struggling, not to declare an entire category of technology dangerous for everyone.

So here we are: lawsuits claiming to protect users from social media’s harms may themselves be contributing to those harms by amplifying the addiction narrative. The lawyers will get paid either way. But if we actually want to help people develop healthier relationships with technology, we could start by not telling them they’re powerless addicts—and instead give them the tools to change their habits.

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18,000 New Fast EV Chargers Were Installed In The US In 2025

According to a new report from Paren, about 18,000 new fast EV chargers were installed in the US in 2025. “U.S. fast-charging networks expanded meaningfully in 2025, adding approximately 18,000 new DC fast-charging ports, a ~30% year-over-year increase. Deployment increasingly favored larger, higher-capacity stations, reflecting a continued shift toward sites ... [continued]

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Citizen Journalists Are Minneapolis’s Unsung Heroes

On Sunday afternoon, CNN anchor Jake Tapper was interviewing US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hours after Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti. Suddenly, CNN cut away to live coverage of Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference. Noem declared that Pretti had “attacked our officers” while “brandishing” a handgun and planned “to kill law enforcement.” When a reporter tried to ask a question about her claim, she interrupted to say, “That is no claim, it is the facts.” When another reporter noted that the White House had just called Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” Noem forcefully agreed. 

By this time, bystanders’ videos of the shooting were appearing online and on news outlets. When Tapper resumed his interview with Ocasio-Cortez, the representative said that Noem and the Trump administration were “asking the American people to not believe their eyes… and instead hand over your belief into anything that they say. I’m not asking the American people to believe me, or her, but to believe themselves.”

Any journalist who’s been paying attention knows that Noem’s boss, US president Donald Trump, often doesn’t tell the truth. Trump launched his political career by asserting without evidence that America’s first Black president wasn’t born in the US, which would have meant Barack Obama was in power illegally. After losing the 2020 election, Trump said he had no plans to leave office because, he insisted, he had actually won. Trump repeats that lie to this day, along with his claim that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol to keep him in power was a day of “peace” and “love.”

But in spinning their latest web of lies, Trump and his aides didn’t reckon with the ingenuity and courage of Minnesotans who witnessed Border Control officers shooting Pretti — and Renee Good before him — and recorded the encounters on their cell phones. Without that evidence, the government’s version of the facts would have had the upper hand in shaping the public narrative. With that evidence, however, it’s obvious that “Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked,” as Pretti’s “heartbroken but also very angry parents” wrote in a statement the next day. “He had his phone in his right hand, and his empty left hand is raised above his head trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down….” Likewise, bystander videos of Renee Good’s shooting show that she was turning her vehicle away from ICE agent Jonathan Ross when Ross fired three deadly shots through her windows. 

Whether they know it or not, the bystanders who recorded these videos are citizen journalists. Apparently, they are ordinary people, not trained in conventional journalism, but simply bearing witness to events of utmost importance to their community and country. And they were doing so under manifestly dangerous conditions, as was also exemplified by 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, who on May 25, 2020, bravely kept her cell phone focused on police officer Derek Chauvin throughout the nine minutes and 29 seconds that Chauvin’s knee was choking the life out of George Floyd.

The events of recent days have shown that citizen journalists, though not a substitute for professionals, can be an invaluable complement. Without their presence at the scene and steadiness under pressure, the public and the rest of the media would be ignorant of a pivotal aspect of the story unfolding in Minneapolis. We’d be hearing only the government’s version of the truth, which, given the Trump administration’s history of flagrant falsehoods, deserves extreme skepticism. Absent these videos, it is all but inconceivable that the editorial boards at three of America’s most influential newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal — would be stating that the administration’s narrative defies belief, or that the administration itself would be trying to walk back its initial slanders of Pretti.

All parts of the modern information system, from legacy newsrooms to social media influencers, can now present a fuller account of what is happening in Minnesota and let viewers and readers draw their own conclusions. And we can explore urgent questions raised by these videos, such as: How many more people might ICE agents have killed when no cameras were recording? Working in tandem at this critical moment for American democracy, citizen and professional journalists can fulfill the essential mission the nation’s Founders envisioned for a free press: to inform the people and hold power to account. 

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“Conspiracy” suit. Michigan’s attorney general has sued four of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell — and the American Petroleum Institute, alleging the companies conspired to stymie renewable energy development, starting in the late 1970s, and that doing so drove up energy prices for Michiganders. By Lesley Clark for Politico’s E&E News…

Court victory. This week, the Hague District Court ordered the government of the Netherlands to create a plan to mitigate the effects of climate change for the residents of the Caribbean island Bonaire. The Netherlands must also set binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. By Mike Corder for the Associated Press…

Skyrocketing insurance costs. Colorado, one of the 10 most expensive states for homeowners insurance, has had more than 75 billion-dollar disasters since 1980. With climate change–driven extreme weather events growing more frequent and more severe, to keep rates from ballooning further, state lawmakers are trying to figure out how to reduce damages in the first place. By Bente Birkeland and Andrea Kramar via Colorado Public Radio…

“I don’t know how to do this.” Emily Atkin grapples with what it means to try to keep audiences’ attention turned “toward the horizon,” while watching so much violence, both in the US and abroad, flash across her computer screen. From HEATED… 

Resources & Events

Public opinion. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication has released a new survey, “Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2025,” which includes a key finding that 72% of Americans believe climate change is happening, versus 13% who don’t. 

Jobs, Etc.

Fellowships. The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship, from Mongabay, is accepting applications for its next cohort; apply by February 1. The Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy, which was created by the Metcalf Institute and Ocean Nexus, in collaboration with The Uproot Project, is accepting applications for a three-month fellowship, running from May to July 2026; the deadline has been extended to February 8. Wake Forest University is recruiting for its 2026 Environmental and Epistemic Justice Journalism Fellowship in London, England; apply by February 15. Report for America is hiring 70 fellows for their two-year program; apply by February 16. The University of Colorado at Boulder is accepting applications for its Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism; apply by March 1. 

Workshop. The Climate Journalism Network Austria is organizing an investigative workshop, “Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data,” in Vienna, for journalists based in Europe. In a two-day workshop, on April 24 and 25, participants will learn how to trace emissions, examine lobbying at the EU level, and follow financial flows. Apply by this Saturday, January 31.

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‘Feels like a losing battle’: the fight against flooding in Somerset

Emergency pumps are deployed in attempt to stop water inundating homes around River Parrett

Since medieval monks started draining and managing the Somerset Levels, humans have struggled to live and work alongside water.

“At the moment it feels like a losing battle,” said Mike Stanton, the chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority. “Intense rainfall is hitting us more often because of climate change. It may be that in the next 50 years, perhaps in the next 20, some homes around here will have to be abandoned.”

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Ancient oceans stayed oxygen rich despite extreme warming

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though the planet was warmer than today. Oxygen levels only plunged millions of years later, after the climate cooled, defying expectations. Powerful monsoons and ocean circulation appear to have delayed oxygen loss in this region compared to the Pacific. The discovery suggests future ocean oxygen levels may not follow a simple warming-equals-deoxygenation rule.
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“Reveal” Wins a 2026 duPont-Columbia Award for Public Interest Journalism

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The investigative public radio show and podcast Reveal — distributed to stations and brought to listeners on-demand with PRX — is a winner in the 2026 duPont-Columbia Awards, representing the singular national public radio broadcast honoree. The awards administered by Columbia University’s journalism school since 1968 honor outstanding broadcast journalism in the public interest.

Following two wins in last year’s awards, Reveal is now honored for “Kids Under Fire in Gaza.” The one-hour audio report illuminates disturbing findings from U.S. doctors, following them to the halls of Congress and to the United Nations to address the humanitarian crisis in the region:

duPont­-Columbia Award honorees are underscored by the strength of their reporting, storytelling, and impact while selected by an esteemed jury from hundreds of entries. Reveal has also been recognized by the Peabody Awards, National Magazine Awards, RFK Human Rights, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

“Kids Under Fire in Gaza” reporters and producers include Najib Aminy, Josh Rushing, Amel Guettafi, Lu Olkowski, Taki Telonidis, and Laila Al-Arian. The broadcast was produced in partnership with Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines. Reveal is a listener-supported public radio show and podcast produced along with Mother Jones by the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Additional winners in the 2026 awards include audio and video reporting from PBS, NBC, ABC, and HBO.

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Guterres Says It’s Time To Switch To Clean Energy Goals

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres’ message was powerful on January 26, the International Day of Clean Energy. Rather than succumbing to the global powers’ failure to meet goals to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, he insists “we must pick up the pace” to a “just, orderly and equitable transition ... [continued]

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US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet

The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence, according to a new forecast.

This year is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions around the world, with projects in development expected to grow existing global gas capacity by nearly 50%, a report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found.

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A breakthrough that turns exhaust CO2 into useful materials

Scientists have created a device that captures carbon dioxide and transforms it into a useful chemical in a single step. The new electrode works with realistic exhaust gases rather than requiring purified CO2. It converts the captured gas into formic acid, which is used in energy and manufacturing. The system even functions at CO2 levels found in normal air.
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Trump’s EPA Proposes to Reward States for Being Bad Neighbors

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration released yet another coal industry handout by proposing to undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s previous disapproval of State Implementation Plans from states failing to meet their Clean Air Act obligations under the federal ozone air quality standard. Previously in 2023 the EPA had ... [continued]

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4 of the 5 Wind Power Projects Stopped by Trump in December Have Resumed Work

Court Allows Vineyard Wind Project to Continue Construction BOSTON — A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has granted a preliminary injunction for yet another one of Donald Trump’s freezes on offshore wind. Judge Brian Murphy ruled Wednesday that Vineyard Wind, a 13 megawatt wind project off the ... [continued]

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Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Illegal Craig Coal Plant Extension

Order required broken plant to stay online to address unproven emergency DENVER — Public interest organizations today challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal emergency order extending the life of Unit 1 at Colorado’s Craig Station. The groups include Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund, and Earthjustice on behalf of GreenLatinos, Vote Solar, ... [continued]

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Warum grüner Stahl — nicht grünes Eisen — Europas industrielle Zukunft bestimmt*

Die Idee einer europäischen Prämie für grünen Stahl hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren weitgehend etabliert. Sie beruht auf der Annahme, dass Europa seinen Stahlsektor im Inland dekarbonisieren kann, höhere Produktionskosten durch eine Mischung aus politischer Unterstützung und Zahlungsbereitschaft der Abnehmer auffängt und dabei seine industrielle Wettbewerbsfähigkeit bewahrt. Diese Annahme ... [continued]

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From Peak Load to Public Health: What Batteries Are Already Doing for Power Grids

Being invited to speak (virtually) at an upcoming hybrid Ottawa Lunch and Learn on peak grid load and battery energy storage provided an opportunity to extend several ongoing lines of analysis. This article is an extension of the brief remarks I will be making at that event, written to unpack ... [continued]

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