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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

Celebrities impacted by climate change; critter bridges save lives and money

Writer's picture: Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick

We had a beautiful Q1 call yesterday; 20 of you joined us, heard about the work and technology being created at Earth Catalyst and many of you shared what you're up to. My mom attended and told a story I'd never heard about covering the first Earth Day for her high school newspaper! It was a pretty amazing time. We'll have more calls coming up soon, more info on that tomorrow in fact.

 

Today the sustainability story getting the most coverage word-wide

It's is an unusual one: it's the LA-area wildfire displacement of celebrities and other wealthy people. The Guardian's coverage is strong; they link to a meta study they did with the great group CarbonBrief of 500 recent extreme weather events.

 

The conclusion: not all of these extreme events were made more likely by climate change, but 71% of them were, and 12 of those events would have been "virtually impossible without humanity’s destabilisation of the climate." And that was at roughly 1C above pre-industrial temperatures, which we're past now.

 

From a public communication perspective, this is a chance to reach people by connecting with what they care about. Many people care about celebrities. Today those celebrities are directly connected to climate change conversation. Of course they are also the best resourced among us to move and rebuild.

 

Ok, that's the big picture top story - let's dig into some updates just for you.


-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Visual of the Day

Bridges for Critters

Climate and biodiversity are so closely related. From Environment Oregon's campaign and article The true costs of wildlife crossings: "According to one government estimate, collisions cause over 10 billion dollars in property damage every year. And that’s not including the costs of road cleanup and the loss of wildlife...

"Each year, roughly 200 Americans die in wildlife collisions, and 26,000 people are injured...

"One study of animal crossings in Washington state determined that each overpass saved society between $235,000 and $443,000 each year because of reduced collisions."See also Portland's wonderful frog taxis, volunteers who pick up frogs and carry them over highways at night.


Today's Updates



Table of Contents


  • Agriculture (11 stories) - Rumin8's methane-reducing cattle feed, FDA's plant-based labeling rules, and Maryland farmland threatened by Virginia data center power lines, while Nigerian pastoralists and Guatemalan farmers adapt to climate impacts

  • Carbon (12 stories) - Watershed expands carbon accounting tools while InPlanet achieves ERW credit milestone; research reveals CO2's historic climate role and stratospheric particle injection potential; Gulf Coast leads CCUS permits as state oil firms face methane scrutiny

  • Circular (4 stories) - DOE grants fuel Toyota's EV battery recycling facility and critical mineral recovery from coal waste, while wind turbine recycling hits 90% and plant-based tableware advances decomposition solutions

  • Ecosystems (19 stories) - Canal & River Trust study highlights UK waterways' climate resilience, while global research tracks Arctic ice decline, Atlantic puffin light pollution impacts, and widespread ecosystem threats from LA wildfires to Bornean orangutan habitat loss

  • Efficiency (5 stories) - NYC and St. Louis mandate building emissions cuts by 2025; data centers strain power grids; Getty's fire systems tested; Mass. launches $16.3B efficiency plan; AI weather models need physics upgrade

  • Finance (8 stories) - $30B climate tech investment decline amid rate pressures, $1.8T total cleantech funding, new carbon-backed currency from Toco, and $100K Asia-Pacific environmental media grants

  • Grid (25 stories) - Record-low UK grid emissions, DOE storage cost targets, BluWave-ai's EV charging system, and MISO's $23.1B transmission expansion lead grid modernization efforts as tech giants reshape power generation landscape

  • Indigenous (17 stories) - Biden designates Chuckwalla and Sáttítla monuments, Fort Belknap restores buffalo herds, while Indigenous networks in Brazil's Rio Negro and First Nations in Western Australia advance climate initiatives

  • Industry (13 stories) - BMW i Ventures backs Phoenix Tailings' rare metals plant, while Huasun Energy and SINGULUS advance HJT production; Fusion cuts silver in PV paste as US clean energy manufacturing surges 5x since 2021

  • Policy (56 stories) - Biden bans offshore drilling across 253M hectares of US waters while maintaining Gulf operations; Trump pledges reversal alongside fossil fuel expansion; House GOP eases federal land transfers; IRS extends clean energy tax credits through 2025

  • Renewables (27 stories) - SolarEdge cuts 400 jobs while JinkoSolar, Huasun, and JA Solar advance efficiency records; EDP, RWE, and JSW Neo Energy drive major solar acquisitions; Germany hits 100GW milestone as Meta, Amazon diverge on data center sustainability approaches

  • Transport (24 stories) - DOE's $6.9M biofuel initiative, BYD's 485K EV sales lead, XPENG-VW charging network expansion, while Honda, Sony-Afeela, and Thomas Built advance electric vehicles; CATL faces US scrutiny as Tesla Cybertruck ranks third in sales



Agriculture

Rumin8's methane-reducing cattle feed, FDA's plant-based labeling rules, and Maryland farmland threatened by Virginia data center power lines, while Nigerian pastoralists and Guatemalan farmers adapt to climate impacts



Carbon

Watershed expands carbon accounting tools while InPlanet achieves ERW credit milestone; research reveals CO2's historic climate role and stratospheric particle injection potential; Gulf Coast leads CCUS permits as state oil firms face methane scrutiny



Circular

DOE grants fuel Toyota's EV battery recycling facility and critical mineral recovery from coal waste, while wind turbine recycling hits 90% and plant-based tableware advances decomposition solutions



Ecosystems

Canal & River Trust study highlights UK waterways' climate resilience, while global research tracks Arctic ice decline, Atlantic puffin light pollution impacts, and widespread ecosystem threats from LA wildfires to Bornean orangutan habitat loss



Efficiency

NYC and St. Louis mandate building emissions cuts by 2025; data centers strain power grids; Getty's fire systems tested; Mass. launches $16.3B efficiency plan; AI weather models need physics upgrade



Finance

$30B climate tech investment decline amid rate pressures, $1.8T total cleantech funding, new carbon-backed currency from Toco, and $100K Asia-Pacific environmental media grants



Grid

Record-low UK grid emissions, DOE storage cost targets, BluWave-ai's EV charging system, and MISO's $23.1B transmission expansion lead grid modernization efforts as tech giants reshape power generation landscape



Indigenous

Biden designates Chuckwalla and Sáttítla monuments, Fort Belknap restores buffalo herds, while Indigenous networks in Brazil's Rio Negro and First Nations in Western Australia advance climate initiatives



Industry

BMW i Ventures backs Phoenix Tailings' rare metals plant, while Huasun Energy and SINGULUS advance HJT production; Fusion cuts silver in PV paste as US clean energy manufacturing surges 5x since 2021



Policy

Biden bans offshore drilling across 253M hectares of US waters while maintaining Gulf operations; Trump pledges reversal alongside fossil fuel expansion; House GOP eases federal land transfers; IRS extends clean energy tax credits through 2025



Renewables

SolarEdge cuts 400 jobs while JinkoSolar, Huasun, and JA Solar advance efficiency records; EDP, RWE, and JSW Neo Energy drive major solar acquisitions; Germany hits 100GW milestone as Meta, Amazon diverge on data center sustainability approaches



Transport

DOE's $6.9M biofuel initiative, BYD's 485K EV sales lead, XPENG-VW charging network expansion, while Honda, Sony-Afeela, and Thomas Built advance electric vehicles; CATL faces US scrutiny as Tesla Cybertruck ranks third in sales


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