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Guiding Principles for EV Battery Recycling Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists

Essentially, the materials recovered through battery recycling can replace future material supply that would otherwise need to be extracted from the earth to meet demand. Estimates show that in 2050, the United States can meet about half of EV demand for cobalt and nickel and a quarter of lithium with minerals recovered through recycling.

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What can we learn from EU’s battery regulation?

Legal Planet

This regulation is designed to reduce the carbon footprint of batteries, limit the use of hazardous materials, decrease reliance on raw materials from outside the EU, and promote high rates of collection, reuse, and recycling. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

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California Can Do It

Union of Concerned Scientists

California has been at the forefront of everything from limits on greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy requirements, to a human right to water. We are at a critical moment in California where the clean energy and transportation transition is well underway, yet the stakes are high if we don’t get that transition right.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Australia’s Telstra Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 11% by Focusing on Efficiency and Renewables

Environment + Energy Leader

The post Australia’s Telstra Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 11% by Focusing on Efficiency and Renewables appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Telstra easily hits in carbon neutrality goal in 2020. Now it wants to bring its suppliers on board.

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Ready For 100% Montgomery County: Communities With Half The County Population Support Clean Energy Future

PA Environment Daily

Douglas White, a long-serving member of Lower Providence’s Environmental Advisory Council , which had pushed for the clean energy resolution, agreed. The next step will be the drafting of an Energy Transition Plan that all of us—residents, businesses and local government alike—can live with,” White said.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. The electric company Central Maine Power got its state and federal permits and began construction on a high-voltage transmission line called New England Clean Energy Connect.

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