July 20, 2024

Weekend Reads: EV Chargers Set to Surpass Gas Pumps; Decarbonizing America's Busiest Ports

It's the weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web:

US public EV chargers set to surpass gas stations in eight years (Bloomberg)  The US added about 700 new public fast-charging stations for electric cars in the second quarter, bringing the nationwide total to nearly 9,000.

Celebrating 100 days of 100% renewable electricity in California (Environment America)  Clean energy experts and advocates discuss California’s remarkable clean energy progress, and what’s next on the Road to 100% Renewable.

Rooftop solar was having a moment in Texas before Beryl. What happens now? (Inside Climate News)  The Lone Star State has seen a recent surge in small-scale solar development. Grid instability could push more residents to consider adoption.

The time is now for zero-emissions cargo handling equipment at America’s busiest cargo ports (CleanTechnica)  The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle nearly 40 percent of U.S. shipping container traffic; decarbonizing the equipment that handles these containers needs to begin now.

1.5 Degrees of Global Warming—Are We There Yet? (nrdc.org)  For years, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions has been a rallying point for policymakers and environmental groups as a means to stave off some of the most devastating and long-lasting effects of the climate crisis. Today, the benchmark is often shorthand for what climate change “success” would look like. So then, is this what failure looks like? Not exactly.

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