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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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
Newsweek's 2025 ranking of the World's Greenest Companies highlights major global companies taking action to reduce their impacts on the environment and our climate. Newsweek's data partners, Plant-A Insights Group and GIST Impact, reviewed public information on thousands of companies and scored them on performance in greenhouse gas emissions, water use, waste generation and commitment to disclosure of sustainability data. The resulting list includes 750 large companies.
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2 weeks ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
Clean energy industry analysts and trade groups said Thursday that the budget reconciliation bill narrowly approved Thursday by the Republican-led House of Representatives would raise emissions and energy prices while giving China an edge in the growing clean technology market.
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2 weeks ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
Panama's Environment Minister Juan Carlos Navarro describes himself as "a retired politician." But after a long political career, including two terms as mayor of Panama City, old habits die hard. When describing his country's economics, Navarro drew on a political adage coined by campaign strategist James Carville. "To paraphrase Carville, it's about nature, stupid," Navarro told Newsweek.
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4 weeks ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
Tens of thousands of homes equipped with rooftop solar and home battery storage in California and Texas are linking up in the latest examples of a growing and innovative energy solution called the Virtual Power Plant (VPP). Proponents say these carefully managed networks of home batteries and renewable energy can help grid operators avoid the use of more polluting power generation sources, cutting emissions and saving money for consumers.
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1 month ago |
newsweek.com | Jeff Young
Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane remain "far too high" according to a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), even though technology exists to control many methane sources. The IEA Global Methane Tracker found that the record-high production of fossil fuels and "limited mitigation efforts" by industry resulted in 120 million tons of methane escaping from the energy sector each year.
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Why Virtual Power Plants are a climate solution for our divided times https://t.co/4HGnMebJ5o
Despite industry pledge to rein in methane, emissions still 'far too high' https://t.co/PuIOR9srCj
Environmental groups say @elonmusk's @xAI data center has become one of the biggest sources of some air pollutants in Memphis due to a fleet of gas-burning turbines that have powered the facility for months. https://t.co/cmgpOeo0vk
