Insights and Stories on Renewable Energy

U.S. to spend $7.3 billion on rural clean energy projects

Sep. 5, 2024 at 9:37 am CDT

Reuters – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said the U.S. will spend $7.3 billion from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to fund clean energy projects helmed by rural electric cooperatives. The 16 funded projects will reduce energy costs and increase reliability for rural Americans, who tend to pay more for […]

Alberta to ban renewables projects on prime agricultural land

Feb. 28, 2024 at 12:56 pm CST

By David Ljunggren Reuters

White House not ruling out a U.S. carbon tax

Oct. 19, 2021 at 5:35 pm CDT

By Jeff Mason Timothy Gardner Trevor Hunnicutt

Canada’s second-largest pension fund reveals new climate targets

Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

By Maiya Keidan

JBS pledges net zero greenhouse emissions by 2040

Mar. 23, 2021 at 7:54 pm CDT

By Ana Mano Nayara Figueiredo

As Biden tours Iowa, farmers want to know where he stands on ethanol

Jun. 11, 2019 at 8:41 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Joe Biden may have an ethanol problem. The former U.S. vice-president has pledged support for advanced biofuels as part of his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But Biden, who leads the crowded Democratic field in opinion polls in Iowa and nationally, faces lingering […]

By Jarrett Renshaw Reuters

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

Jan. 17, 2019 at 3:43 am CST

Rural economic development has been given a promotion at the federal level in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle. In the shuffle, following the departure of Treasury Board president Scott Brison from cabinet, Trudeau on Monday called up Bernadette Jordan, MP for the southern Nova Scotia riding of South […]

By GFM Staff

McDonald’s sets greenhouse gas reduction targets

Mar. 20, 2018 at 1:25 pm CDT

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. on Tuesday announced what it describes as an approved, science-based target to cut greenhouse gas emissions and battle climate change, saying it is the first restaurant company to do so. Under a plan several years in the making, the fast-food company — along with its franchisees […]

By Lisa Baertlein

Fossil fuels here to stay… for now

Nov. 17, 2017 at 4:15 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Renewable sources of energy may be the future, but that future is not coming any time soon as fossil fuels will be needed to continue to power the world for generations, according to author and professor emeritus Vaclav Smil, speaking at the Grain World conference […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Court decision may boost biofuels, hit refiners

Jul. 28, 2017 at 6:16 pm CDT

New York / Reuters – The U.S. government may have to require more biofuels to be blended into the country’s fuel supply after a court ruled on Friday that the mandates must be reconsidered, a decision that boosted renewable fuel credits to seven-month highs on financial markets. The decision sank […]

By Emily Flitter Jarrett Renshaw

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