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HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / March 14, 2023 / INOVUES, provider of the only upfit technology that enables building facades and windows to be upgraded without replacement or disruption, will demonstrate its

Alexa Carrera is a Master of Science in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy student at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Photo: Bruce SilcoxBy Ann Nordby Alexa Carrera is determined to move the needle on energy justice. So far, renewable energy technologies have benefited high-income folks the most, in the form of pricey electric vehicles and rooftop solar panels for homeowners. Low-income households still pay the biggest share of their income for energy. Carrera wants to help wri...

Applications for the PowerNorth Incubator are due January 31.

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The city has partnered with others to offer residents a new tool.

To honor Earth Day tomorrow, Gov. Steve Sisolak will join environmental advocates in a call to invest in our planet. The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world only has about 8 years to take decisive action to avert the worst effects of global warming. ...

A coalition of environmental organizations are taking the Environmental Protection Agency to court over its failure to enforce the Clean Air Acts Regional Haze Rules, designed to reduce pollution in national parks including Grand Teton and Yellowstone. Rob Joyce - energy organizer with the Sierra Clubs Wyoming Chapter, one group behind the lawsuit - said states and owners of major polluting facilities have had plenty of time to create a plan to comply with federal law. "When states ...

Wildfires continue to burn in New Mexico after destroying at least 150 homes in Ruidoso, killing an older couple in the village last week. Matt Hurteau, professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, who studies climate-change mitigation and adaptation, said the state has largely escaped massive fires seen the past few years in Colorado and California, but the writing was on the wall. "Starting in about the mid-90s, here in the Southwest, climatic conditions shifted,"...

Government agencies are tasked with setting policies to reduce the impacts of climate change. But a new Minnesota venture aims to get more of the private sector involved, to bring locally developed "green" technology to the public. The latest State of Climate Tech report says these startups saw a 210% increase in investments in the past year. ...

Recent strategic acquisitions of Minnesota renewable energy firms, plus the opening of the Grid Catalyst clean-energy business accelerator, demonstrate how mainstream money is flowing to the sector.