The first class of female Eagle Scouts has earned their badges
Two years ago, the Eagle Scout program was opened up to female participants, with the first 1,000 young women who had just earned their badges and the honor that comes with it.
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World’s largest hydrogen “green steel” plant to open in Sweden by 2024
H2 Green Steel (H2GS) will use hydrogen produced with renewable energy from Sweden’s Boden-Luleå region. By 2030, H2GS expects to be producing five million tons of high-quality zero-emissions steel annually.
EV charging station installations increasing rapidly in the United States
In 2009, 245 new EV charging stations were installed in the country. In 2019, more than 20,000 new EV charging stations were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Atlanta builds the United States’s largest food forest to tackle food insecurity
Thanks to a US Forest Service grant and a collaboration between the city’s municipality and a number of different NGOs, the 7.1 acres of land are now ripe with 2,500 pesticide-free edible and medicinal plants.
World’s first 3D-printed school planned for Madagascar
The school is a pilot project and, looking to the future, Thinking Huts hopes to expand the idea to provide more schools elsewhere in Madagascar, and even throughout in the world.
Pollution in the Mississippi River has plummeted since the 1980s
The great waterway was shown to become filthier and filthier until 1980, when the effects brought about by the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) started to kick in.
Facebook to add new labels to posts about climate change
Facebook has announced that it will start labeling posts about climate change with a banner that will direct people to its “Climate Science Information Center,’ an information page on climate change.
Annapolis sues 26 oil and gas companies over climate change
The city seeks to force the companies to help cover the mounting costs of climate change, including severe flooding that disproportionately harms communities of color.
Maersk to deploy world’s first carbon-neutral shipping liner in 2023
The green liner is to join the fleet a full seven years ahead of the Danish company’s original date—as they hope to rapidly shape the future of marine container shipping into one that’s carbon-neutral.
India to offer $640 million in incentives to solar manufacturers
Through the incentive scheme, the Indian government hopes to attract investment for 10 gigawatts of solar ingot-to-module capacity by 2023.