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How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

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How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

 

 

A report through NPR, published last February, said, "'Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.'"

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First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden's clean energy agenda.

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First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden's clean energy agenda.

 

The Associated Press reported, "A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday, another blow to the Biden administration's clean energy agenda following cancellations last week of two major offshore wind projects."

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America's Bet on Wind Power Is Running into a Big Problem

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America's Bet on Wind Power Is Running into a Big Problem

 

Wind power advocates applaud new projects in the works. But Barron's reports, "But behind the scenes, the news about wind power is more sobering. Financially, the industry is teetering, with a parade of companies planning to renegotiate or pull out of contracts, jeopardizing plans for projects that were expected to provide electricity for millions of homes.

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Green Projects Hit Iron Wall

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Green Projects Hit Iron Wall

 

RealClear Wire reports "Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless than the Atlantic winds: the Iron Law of Megaprojects, offering a warning of the trouble ahead for green-energy projects.

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America’s big shift to green energy has a woolly mammoth problem

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America’s big shift to green energy has a woolly mammoth problem

 

The Guardian reports, "America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transition lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils."

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