Jeff Young
Environment and Sustainability Editor, Better Planet at Newsweek
Journalist writing about climate solutions at Newsweek's Better Planet. Also, you should read "Appalachian Fall," available from Simon & Schuster.
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6 days ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
The U.S. oil and gas industry sparked an energy revolution a few decades ago by thinking in a different direction—literally. Horizontal drilling, combined with hydraulic fracturing, unlocked new petroleum reserves and quickly propelled the U.S. to global leadership in oil and gas. Fervo Energy, a company headquartered in oil capital Houston, is aiming for a similar revolution in geothermal energy by borrowing a page from the oil industry's playbook.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
As rapidly growing cities in the world's developing countries expand and modernize, they need better ways to assess their coming energy use and adapt to a changing climate. New tools developed with artificial intelligence by IBM's impact accelerator and the company's partner organizations give officials and planners both a current view of their cities and a forecast of likely developments.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
As our planet warms due to climate change, many of the world's cities will likely experience even greater heat than the surrounding countryside. Pavement, buildings and concrete absorb and hold more heat than fields and forests do, and cities can be as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the greener surroundings on a given summer day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
City officials and business leaders in the clean energy sector are ramping up efforts to persuade Congress to prevent the budget reconciliation bill from cutting tax credits for clean energy.
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2 weeks ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it will seek to scrap two rules on power plant pollution as part of the Trump administration's effort to encourage more use of fossil fuels such as coal, a major source of greenhouse gases and toxic emissions that contribute to disease and premature deaths.
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