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Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Allowing More Juice to Flow Through Power Lines Could Hasten Clean Energy

By | March 12, 2024 | 1
Power lines with a red sunset in the background.

America’s power lines can’t handle all the energy promised by thousands of proposed solar, wind and battery energy projects. Technology can ease the gridlock.

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Push to Plant Trees in Kansas City Takes Root  

By | March 5, 2024 | 3
Sunrise in downtown Kansas City.

Trees are being planted in Kansas City at an unprecedented pace, putting the city in the front ranks of American cities aggressively fighting climate change.

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Ethanol Plants Want to Bury CO2 in Kansas to Cut Carbon Footprints

By | February 20, 2024 | 0
Corn piled outside of a grain elevator

Two companies in Kansas want to pump carbon dioxide emissions deep underground to combat climate change. But environmental groups and landowners are opposed.

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U.S. Hopes to Build Pipelines for Carbon Capture. Landowners Don’t Want Them

By | February 6, 2024 | 0
Kenny Davis stands next to the yellow tag marking where a natural gas pipeline traverses underneath his Scott County, Illinois farm on Oct. 9, 2023.

Thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines crisscross the country. Now, more are being proposed to carry things like carbon dioxide to combat climate change.

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Kansas City Tapping Massive Vein of Sustainability Funding 

By | January 9, 2024 | 0
Clouds in the sky.

The Kansas City area, which is emerging as a national sustainability hub, is pursuing up to $200 million in federal funds for green projects. 

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