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Missoula Water advances leak detection after rigorous competition

An acoustic pipe monitoring leak detection technology that uses fire hydrants to host multi-sensor devices, has already found more than a dozen leaks for...

La Caisse, CEFC Launch $165 Million Sustainable Agriculture Carbon Credit Platform

Canadian institutional investor, La Caisse (formerly CDPQ) and Australia’s specialist climate investor Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) announced today the launch of Meldora, a...

Apollo Invests $3.8 Billion in RWE JV to Expand German Power Grid

Global alternative investment manager Apollo and German power producer RWE announced today the launch of a new joint venture, which will see Apollo committing...

Tentacle-like underwater robot will make offshore inspections safer and more precise, say creators

A tentacle-like underwater robot that its creators say can safely interact with offshore structures is being primed for a role in the inspection and...

Swiss Re Drops Pursuit of SBTi Validation for Net Zero Goals

Zurich-based insurance and reinsurance company Swiss Re announced that it will no longer pursues Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validation for its climate targets,...

$60 Billion Venture Capital Coalition Launches New Fund to Scale Climate Tech Startups

A new collation of 14 venture capital and growth equity investment firms announced the launch of a new collaborative fund to back clean energy...

Billions spent, miles to go: The story of California’s failure to build high-speed rail

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed...

Next-generation carbon capture technology goes live at Ferrybridge EfW

A novel next-generation carbon capture solution is now operational at enfinium’s Ferrybridge-1 energy from waste (EfW) facility in West Yorkshire. UK firm Nuada’s carbon capture...

A Texas congressman is quietly helping Elon Musk pitch a $760M plan to build tunnels under Houston to ease flooding

The devastating flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 killed dozens of people, inundated hundreds of thousands of homes, and left the...

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