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Formula One race cars will take to the track this week in Singapore, where they'll reach blistering speeds above 200 mph, some of them with the aid of electric drive technology.
In Sandy Lake, Ontario (population 2,650), the diesel fuel that powers this remote community a thousand miles northwest of Toronto costs around $9 a gallon. And even then, in its harsh northern climate, it provides electricity only some of the time. So the community is looking for alternatives, and a Canadian mining company thinks it has found one in a new battery using the little-known metal vanadium.
U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is considering a former Obama Energy Department official to lead the agency's debate on mainstream climate science, according to a former leader of the Trump administration's EPA transition effort. (Greenwire, )
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) thinks carbon dioxide is getting a raw deal. Fresh off his trip to the warming Arctic, the House Science, Space and Technology chairman penned an op-ed touting the benefits of the greenhouse gas. (E&E News PM, )
U.S. EPA chief Scott Pruitt spent nearly half of March, April and May in his home state of Oklahoma, according to copies of his travel records. (Greenwire, )
Taking too much credit? (Climatewire, )
U.S. EPA is on the lookout for special agents to help protect Administrator Scott Pruitt. (Greenwire, )
State mandates have driven half of U.S. growth in renewables since 2000, although declining costs have made such standards less important than they used to be, said a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (E&E News PM, )
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