Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, penned an oped in the Financial Times calling for a 12 billion-pount, 10-point plan to effect Britain’s green recovery. Johnson wants to create 250,000
Continue readingBoris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three
Governor Gavin Newsom, issued an executive order to require all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use
Continue readingCalifornia will phase out sales of gas-powered cars by 2035
General Electic, opened the first AC coal-fired power plant in the United States in 1902 and spent the following century becoming a leader in manufacturing these plants both in the
Mindy Lubber, CEO and president of Ceres, perhaps the leading corporate sustainability non-profit focused on building business support for acting on climate, announced the issuance of a major report on
Continue readingFinance Experts Are Ringing the Alarm About Climate Change
NuScale Power achieved a major milestone with far-reaching implications, by being the first private company to receive approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an advanced reactor design. As NuScale’s
Continue readingFirst Advanced Nuclear Design Approved by the NRC
Exxon Mobil Corp., the most prominent U.S. fossil fuel company, and one widely reviled for four decades of stonewalling action on and deliberate, deceptive obfuscation about the risks of climate
Continue readingExxon Mobil booted off the Dow Jones Industrial Index
Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), the largest asset manager activist alliance, with more than 450 investor members which collectively manage $40 trillion in assets, has secured climate action commitments from 70%
Apple announced plans to make its entire business carbon neutral within the next 10 years. The roadmap to sustainability is part of the company’s annual Environmental Progress Report. Reducing every
Continue readingApple says its supply chains and products will be carbon neutral by 2030
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, wants to use the €2.8tn asset purchase scheme in the fight against climate change. This marks the first time that the ECB
Continue readingLagarde puts fighting climate into agenda of European Central Bank’s bond program
During the 2020 primary debate for New York’s 14th district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reiterated her position from the previous May, that the Green New Deal leaves the door open to nuclear.