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Indian Point, Closest Nuclear Plant to New York City, Set to Retire by 2021

In January 2017, Entergy Nuclear and the state of New York reached an agreement to retire the two nuclear reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center, located in Buchanan, New York, about...

EU Hails Clean Energy ‘Year of Delivery’

The European Union is on track to meet its renewable energy, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas emission targets for 2020 following a 'year of delivery' across the renewables sector, according to a...

Smog-Fighting Music Academy Proposal Uses an Air Purifier System as Effective as 33,000 Trees

The Polish city of Krakow has some of the worst air pollution in the world. In hopes of improving the city’s air quality, FAAB Architektura proposed a smog-fighting music academy fitted with...

World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Record for Energy Generation

Anyone who still thinks wind power is just a load of hot air obviously hasn’t been paying attention. Witness the V164, a prototype wind turbine that Denmark’s MHI Vestas Offshore tested at...

U.S. to Pull out of Paris Climate Change Agreement under Trump

As seemed likely from the day Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, the country will pull out of the global Paris Climate Agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The move had...

World Wetlands Day – 2. February

2nd February each year is World Wetlands Day. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2. February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on...

Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 7 Percent Since 2014

MIT’s total campus emissions have dropped by 7 percent since 2014, according to MIT’s second annual greenhouse gas inventory. The inventory, whose results were released by the MIT Office of Sustainability in...

EIB Group Increases Support to Czech Republic by One Third to EUR 619 Million in 2016

The European Investment Bank Group provided EUR 619 million in new loans, guarantees equity in the Czech Republic in 2016, of which EUR 526 million from the EIB and EUR 93 million from...

First Agreements Signed for Uranium Mining Legacy Fund

The EBRD’s latest nuclear safety fund is making progress. Framework agreements have been signed with the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan which will provide the legal basis for implementation of projects in these...

Connecting People to Nature – in the City and on the Land, from the Poles to the Equator

For this year’s World Environment Day, millions of people around the globe will answer the call to ‘connect with nature,’ celebrating the day by going to a park or heading to the...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to Scrub Climate Pages from EPA Website

The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political...

Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Gets Green Light

New York State made clean energy history today when the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) approved a contract for the nation's largest offshore wind project, which will be located in the waters...

Melbourne Trams to Be Solar-Powered under Andrews Government Proposal

Building large-scale solar farms in northern Victoria part of plan to reduce state’s net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Melbourne’s tram network will become entirely solar-powered under a proposal by the Andrews...

Trump Administration Tells EPA to Cut Climate Page from Website: Sources

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted...

Trump Clears Way for Controversial Oil Pipelines

U.S. President Donald Trump signed orders on Tuesday smoothing the path for the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines in a move to expand energy infrastructure and roll back key...

MEPs Back Higher Recycling Targets

MEPs on the EU's environment committee yesterday backed the adoption of more ambitious waste and recycling targets under the Circular Economy Package. The lawmakers voted to boost the municipal recycling target from 65...

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