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How Many Minerals Do We Really Need for EV Batteries? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

By investing in battery recycling, EV efficiency, charging, battery innovation, and more choices of transportation modes. Essentially, the amount of minerals needed to create our vehicles is reduced through: Increased EV efficiency: Making EVs energy efficient reduces battery size requirements by using less energy per mile.

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116 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Kober [PaEN] -- WITF StateImpartPA - Rachel McDevitt: Jimmy Carter Offered Calm To Pennsylvanians After Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Partial Meltdown -- Ag Conservation Professionals! Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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125 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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111 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- PublicNewsService.org: PA Works To Counter Presidents Clean Energy Rollbacks With Lightning Energy Plan -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Gov.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights November Program, Activities -- Schuylkill Action Network To Hold Annual Meeting Nov. 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 26 -- Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7

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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries

Union of Concerned Scientists

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. And 70% of the copper used in batteries is already recycled.

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Recycling renewables: A special series

Environmental News Bits

As the world rolls out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, we’re cleaning up electricity — and generating a lot of equipment that will ultimately need to be recycled.