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With the opening of the UN-sponsored COP26 climate summit less than two weeks away, a trove of leaked documents obtained by Greenpeace is revealing efforts by of a group of nations furiously lobbying to gut language critical of their carbon-spewing economic interests from a report to be released during the Glasgow conference. The leaked documents were detailed in a post by…

US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of net-zero by 2050. Why does he oppose it? The Charleston Gazette-Mail…

Tesla has launched a new website to flex its manufacturing muscle, which Elon Musk believes is Tesla’s biggest strength. It also appears to be part of the automaker’s hiring effort, which is going to be huge. For years now, Musk had Tesla focus on manufacturing. He pushed the idea that “the machine that builds the machine” is an even more important product. At Tesla’s shareholders’…