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One barrier to people making the switch from conventional to electric cars is cost, mainly because batteries are still expensive. But Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, says that’s changing.
Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in saving a secret grove of prehistoric trees belonging to a species that dates back to the time of the dinosaurs.
An advisory panel for the Interior Department has proposed privatizing national-park campgrounds. As Outside magazine put it, the plan “represents yet another step toward public-lands privatization and an attempt to enrich the current administration’s cronies.”
A team of researchers has created concrete that is alive and can reproduce and even capture carbon, according to the The New York Times.
The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that Indiana utilities would be prevented from shutting down coal-fired plants under a new bill.
Governor Eric Holcomb delivered his State of the State address January fourteenth. In this yearly speech the state’s chief executive touts victories and successes in the past year and talks about challenges Hoosiers will face now and in the future.
Refugees fleeing the impending effects of the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, according to a new decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, as CNN reported. The new decision could open up a massive wave of legal claims by displaced people around the world.
