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Riding the tide

Electric Auto Association

Charlotte chapter meets new challenges from the increase in EV demand. Since the recent rise in interest in electric vehicles (EVs), Charlotte Electric Vehicle Association (CEVA) President Jess Montgomery has become the go-to EV expert in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. CEVA President Jess Montgomery.

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Construction begins on DOE-sponsored carbon-capture project at Kentucky Power Plant

Green Car Congress

The program supports national efforts to mitigate climate change by capturing CO 2 at large point sources, such as power plants, and permanently storing the greenhouse gases to prevent its release into the atmosphere.

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The approval from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality , which was announced by the company on Monday and is conditional on the posting of a USD 1 million reclamation bond, removes one major hurdle to Piedmont’s plans to tap a large lithium deposit just outside Charlotte. to close at USD 14.68

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Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

Green Car Congress

This work is significant as salinity already affects over 20% of the world's agricultural soils, and salinity poses an increasing threat to food production due to climate change. Richard James and University of Adelaide student Bo Xu. Dr. Rana Munns.

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Australia Reels From Split Weather System, Suffers Effect Of “The Big Dry” And “The Big Wet”

Green Car Congress

David Jones, head of the BOM’s National Climate Centre. Role Of Climate Uncertain; Indian Ocean Dipole Remains Positive Three Years In A Row. David Jones, National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, speaking on ABC Radio Australia. Impacts of Queensland Floods “Beyond Human Intervention”.

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Recycling Expanded Polystyrene becomes a reality with Styroloop

EV Driver

I met the team at a Climate Change Hackathon (Climathon 2018) and our idea on the day included my recycling process. Interview by Charlotte Dautzenberg I also want to create products that are high value and celebrate the qualities of the material rather than create things from plastic that have a short, single lifespan.

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Charlie represents EV Driver in India

EV Driver

These green energy pieces are another key decision or strategy in my mind as EVs are like a key to the bigger picture of fighting climate change and therefore, knitting all the pieces together will become our most important goal as a global nation. Interview by Charlotte Dautzenberg

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