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Better than gold

Mission Mineral: Raising Finance and Strategy to Build Clean Infrastructure

Allan Zhang
April 17, 2023
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As the world rapidly builds renewable energy infrastructure and transportation networks, the critical minerals' sourcing, processing, and trading will have profound economic, environmental, and geopolitical implications. Ensuring the critical minerals’ supply meets ever-rising demand while navigating the mineral supply chain’s impacts on the environment and society is a daunting challenge.
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Commentary

Skid Marks on the Energy Transition?

March 17, 2023
Source: The New Republic
This March 10 op/ed takes oil and gas executives' paeans to the Inflation Reduction Act for a drive around the block.
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I Get a (Rust and Sun) Belt Out of You

February 10, 2023
Source: CNBC
This February 7 story tracks 100,000 announced hires to incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, with tens of thousands in states whose senators voted against the bill.
It's morning in America

Could hydrogen signal a dawn in all sorts of clean infrastructure? 

Explainer: Can Tax Incentives Help Green Hydrogen Outgrow Its Promise?

Douglas Leung
December 12, 2022
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Hydrogen investors say the abundant element can replace carbon throughout economies. Hydrogen skeptics (and shorts) say that producing adequate hydrogen supply requires intolerable amounts of carbon pollution. Some startups are looking at chemistry - and tax credit financing via the United States' Inflation Reduction Act - to increase the supply...
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Small States, Big Howls About Disclosure

November 18, 2022
Source: Daily Mail
This November 17 dispatch from a British tabloid reads out some state treasurers' claim that businesses will suffer under a proposed rule that requires them to tell investors how they're managing the energy transition.
Growing food in the forest for financeable flourishing

Explainer: How Carbon Capture Contributes to Climate Strategies

Max Flignor
August 19, 2022
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There's too much operating need for carbon-heavy energy, and climate change is too far along, for society to do all its sustainability work through a switch to renewable fuels. Removing carbon from the atmosphere becomes necessary - and financing the removal involves a range of risks.
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It's Rare Earths, Not Scorched Earth, in Congressional Policy

January 28, 2022
Source: CNBC
Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.
Cyclists fuel up in Carmel, an officially red town with few controversies about green initiatives

Here's another broadly popular source of energy in Carmel, Indiana. (Photo courtesy Andy Montgomery via Creative Commons.)

In States and Cities, Renewable Investment Grows and Grows Less Partisan

Abdeali Saherwala
August 31, 2021
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The quick take says that Republicans dismiss the climate threat and refuse to see the upside in renewable energy. The deeper take shows more complexity and more finance for clean energy in ostensibly red states. Our reporter spoke with one Republican mayor to learn how solar, wind and efficiency can...
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Don't Wait for a Flooded Day to Cool the Roof: Commercial Real Estate Grows Up

June 11, 2021
Source: The Washington Post
This June 8 article, riffing off an architectural association's awards, shows how green engineering can lower a building's energy cost and improve its returns.
The golden age of wireless?

Beam announced its deal with the City of San Diego in October 2020. 

Building Profits in Charging: A Naming Rights Model

Andy Xie
March 16, 2021
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Carbon emissions from transportation must nearly vanish in coming years for the world to add less than two degrees of temperature above preindustrial levels. So ways to charge up cars on clean electric supply must proliferate. Beam, a San Diego vendor, promises to finance its growth largely on advertising.

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