Headline News:
- “US President Caught Napping By US Solar Industry” • US President Donald Trump’s war on the US solar industry is going sideways. And so it may for a while. A report from Deloitte outlines how the domestic solar industry can survive, recover, and persist long after President Trump leaves office in 2029. We can hope that will be peaceful. [CleanTechnica]
Agrivoltaics with an electric tractor (NREL image)
- “Drought Linked To Increased Conflict Between Humans And Wildlife In California” • Researchers in California pinpointed an unexpected impact of climate change in the state: an increase in human-wildlife conflict due to prolonged, climate-exacerbated droughts. Clashes between humans and wildlife rose after long stretches of reduced precipitation. [ABC News]
- “Rio Tinto Inks New Wind Power Deal To Advance Kennecott Decarbonisation” • Rio Tinto steps up its US decarbonisation strategy with a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement that will supply 78.5 MW of renewable energy from TerraGen’s newly completed Monte Cristo I wind farm in Texas to its Kennecott copper operations in Utah. [OilPrice.com]
- “World Has ‘Virtually Exhausted’ Its Carbon Budget” • Fossil fuel emissions are set to reach a record high in 2025, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget Report. It warns that the remaining carbon budget to keep global warming under 1.5°C is now “virtually exhausted,” and keeping global warming to that limit is “no longer plausible.” [Euronews]
- “Iceland Warns Slower AMOC Is A Security Threat To The Nation” • The Iceland Review reported that the government of Iceland has declared the slowing or collapse of the AMOC to be a security threat to the country and has added the potential failure of that ocean current to the agenda of the country’s National Security Council. [CleanTechnica]
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