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Our View: Transmission lines are key to our clean energy future
The transition to renewable power is no longer held back by technology but by supply chain problems, labor problems – and opposition to necessary projects.
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Negotiators take first steps toward plastic pollution treaty
Delegates from more than 150 countries, plastic industry representatives, environmentalists, scientists, waste pickers, tribal leaders and others affected by the pollution attended in person or virtually.
Posted inLocal & State
Mills announces $5.4 million for climate change projects, green energy jobs
Gov. Janet Mills announced the $5.4 million in new state grants on the 2nd anniversary of Maine’s Climate Action Plan.
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Biden hosts Macron amid friction over U.S. climate law
French President Emmanuel Macron is using his visit to Washington to sharply criticize aspects of President Biden’s signature climate law as a bad deal for Europe.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville workshop looks to prepare city for impact of climate change
The Community Resilience Partnership, a program of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, is set to issue $4.75 million over the next two years to help fund community projects that reduce energy use and help make communities more resilient.
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UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts
Negotiators have approved an historic deal to create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.
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UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund
According to the draft of the proposal from Egypt developed countries would be “urged” to contribute to the fund, which would also draw on other private and public sources of money such as international financial institutions.
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EU shakes up climate talks with surprise disaster fund offer
The proposed approach would create a fund for poor countries and push for steeper emissions cuts by all countries, as well as the phasing down of all fossil fuels.
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‘Brazil is back’: At COP27, Lula vows to be a global climate leader
‘There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon,’ President-elect Lula da Silva tells a packed room at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt.