The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved rules requiring roughly 4,100 existing buildings of more than 20,000 square feet to slash their greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.… Read More
The Seattle City Council is closing in on new rules requiring roughly 4,100 existing buildings of more than 20,000 square feet to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to zero by… Read More
Next time you avoid sitting at a red light in Seattle, Google’s “Project Green Light” might have something to do with it. The tech giant is working with 13 cities… Read More
The news: Portland, Ore., startup Ren Energy has raised $2.3 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company declined to comment on the filing… Read More
The results are in for Washington’s first auction of carbon pollution permits. The cap-and-invest program brought in $300 million from many of state’s biggest emitters, including fossil fuel refineries and… Read More
A Seattle teen is creating a bit of turbulence with a website tallying the carbon emissions of the ultra-rich traveling on private jets. Akash Shendure totaled up last year’s jet… Read More
First Mode is establishing a proving grounds between Seattle and Portland to test and optimize giant zero-emission hauling trucks and the hydrogen-based infrastructure they’ll depend on. The Seattle-based engineering venture… Read More
Amazon is rolling out a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff in the United Kingdom as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Announcing the plan, the… Read More
Amazon launched its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund in June 2020 and has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in 11 climate tech companies. The goal of the fund… Read More
In September 2019, Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos announced the company’s ambitious Climate Pledge, setting a goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. He encouraged others to do the same… Read More
Laying out its vision for a fossil-fuel-free future, the City of Seattle has released an ambitious plan to electrify its transportation system, with a list goals over the next nine… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — TerraPower, the venture that’s working on next-generation nuclear reactors with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is now working on next-generation uses for coal as well. The… Read More
For years, the Port of Seattle has been talking about weaning Seattle-Tacoma International Airport off fossil fuels, but now it’s getting serious about taking action. “At a certain point in… Read More
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion energy innovation fund spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has revealed seven more companies in which it’s investing, including startups that aim to build… Read More
Microsoft said this morning it plans to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, taking another step in a push to use more clean energy and make its operations… Read More