This week’s optimistic environmental news:
- Lego Will Begin Using Sustainable, Sugar-Based Bricks In 2018 – “Leading up to the announcement, Lego had invested around $165 million dollars in the development of the Sustainable Materials Centre, where they sought solutions for ways to mass produce their tiny bricks in a more environmentally friendly.”
- Less fertilizer, greater crop yields, and more money: China’s agricultural breakthrough – “The practices “increased grain production by 33 million tons, reduced nitrogen fertilizer use by 1.2 million tons, and increased income by 79.3 billion yuan.”
- No longer ‘alternative’, mainstream renewables are pushing prices down – “The Australian Energy Market Operator has demonstrated their ability to keep the lights on, despite a spate of large coal and gas generator failures — 51 since December.”
- Subsidy-free renewable energy projects set to soar in UK, analysts say– “The falling cost of wind and solar projects combined with advances in battery storage technology will unlock about £20bn of investment in the UK between now and 2030, Aurora Energy Research said. Onshore wind and solar will both be viable without subsidies by 2025 in the UK, it added.”
- Borrowing G.O.P. Playbook, Democratic States Sue the Government and Rack Up Wins – “Blue-state attorneys general have filed more than two dozen environmental lawsuits against the Trump administration since January 2017, and the victories are piling up. This month, a court said the Environmental Protection Agency had broken the law by delaying smog protections. In February, states forced the Department of Energy to enact efficiency standards for household appliances. And in two different decisions in the past year, courts thwarted the administration’s attempts to delay regulations on emissions by the oil and gas industry.”
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