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Kameale Terry, the co-founder and CEO of ChargerHelp!, stands for a photo in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Meet the woman who founded a business to keep EV chargers up and running

Kameale Terry set up the ChargerHelp! business to help make driving EVs a smoother experience and reduce pollution in Los Angeles.

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EV charging infrastructure choices should be about where, not just how many

Resources for the Future: Equity should be a factor in EV charging network planning.

Cows in a green farmers' field that also features a wind turbine in Land's End, Sennen, United Kingdom
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Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain

Wind power led Britain’s record low fossil fuel electricity generation in August 2024, with CO2 emissions dropping sharply.

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Red tape to renewables: Overcoming challenges to U.S. clean energy projects

The U.S. faces challenges to buidling clean energy infrastructure. Smarter planning and policies are key to overcoming them.

Gardener Jana Kretschmer is working to protect trees from climate change (AFP)
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Germany’s parks plant a way forward on climate change

As part of a "natural regeneration" project, a sapling has been grafted onto the stump of a 150-year-old oak tree at Muskauer Park.

Tunisian fisherwoman Sara Souissi, 43, defied men who believed she had no place at sea (AFP)
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Tunisia fisherwomen battle inequality and climate change

Off a quiet Tunisian island, Sara Souissi readies her small fishing boat. As a woman in the male-dominated trade, she rows against entrenched...

Aeral view of Siderurgica Huachipato, in Talcahuano, Bio Bio region, taken on September 11, 2024. Huachipato, Chile's largest steelmaker, will shut down its furnace on September 16, 2024, the end of a 74-year-old company with strong social roots that succumbed to ‘unfair’ competition from Chinese steel. (AFP)
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Chile’s biggest steelworks sunk by cheap Chinese imports

Chile's Huachipato steel mill, an economic and cultural hub for Talcahuano, is closing after 74 years, driven out by cheaper Chinese imports, costing...

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows domes of the Central Mosque with the backdrop of the Tien Shan Mountains in Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev/File Photo
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Metals-rich Kazakhstan seeks niche in battery supply chain

The former Soviet republic, Kazakhstan, promotes itself as a dependable supplier of the majority of critical materials outlined by the EU.

AnalysisClimateEmissionsNatural GasOilPoliticsReports

Former drilling foe Harris now says she supports it

Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden-Harris administration has overseen “the largest increase in domestic oil production.″

AnalysisEconomyElectricityPoliticsSolarStorageWind

With a million home batteries, we could build far fewer power lines. We just need the right incentives

Australia's abundant wind and solar power needs energy storage to provide reliable supply when the sun doesn’t shine or wind doesn’t blow.

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