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Suzi Kerr: Yes, the climate crisis is raising your grocery bills

Droughts, fires, floods, heatwaves – they’re all contributing to our supply-chain problems and brutal inflation.

Walmart to add EV charging to thousands of stores by 2030

Walmart plans to add the EV charging stations to stores coast-to-coast, more than quadrupling its current network of roughly 280 locations.

EV qualifying vehicle list to be updated April 18

A new and probably shorter list of electric vehicles qualifying for consumer tax credits will be released in a few weeks, as the Biden administration enforces stricter rules about how and where the vehicles are built.

White House asked Elon Musk for Tesla’s help with EV charging goal

Senior White House officials asked Elon Musk during a private meeting last month for Tesla to make its extensive charging network available for use by other electric vehicles, seeking to enlist the bombastic billionaire in their efforts to push along a clean energy revolution

Biden’s zero-emission government fleet starts with USPS

The Postal Service is set to roll out 34,000 electric mail trucks in the coming years, and it’s transforming its operations to make them go.

Cop27 failed on keeping global heating to just 1.5C, Ed Miliband says – as it happened

Ed Miliband, the shadow secretary for climate change and net zero, told MPs that the Cop27 failed on the key issue of keeping global heating to just 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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California is awash in renewable energy - except when it’s most needed

The state has moved quickly to build up solar power, but has not yet figured out how to store it for when demand peaks or to avert blackouts.
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