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  How an Oil Company Becomes a Renewables Company

  Bloomberg Green - Nathaniel Bullard

  Equinor’s first-quarter results illustrate the possibilities—and challenges—lying ahead for businesses trying to get out of the fossil game.

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  A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020 - Inside Climate News

  insideclimatenews.org - By Dan Gearino

  In a year of pandemic illness and chaotic politics, there also was a major milestone in the transition to clean energy: U.S. renewable energy sources …

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  How the Texas Winter Storm Disaster Will Shape Joe Biden's Climate Agenda

  TIME - Justin Worland

  President Joe Biden arrived in Texas Friday on a trip designed to highlight the region’s recovery after a deadly winter storm knocked out power in most of the state. But while the winter storm crisis may be fading into the rearview mirror, the battle to define its political meaning is just …

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  Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year

  Bloomberg Green - Will Mathis

  Renewables are for the first time the dominant power source in Europe’s electric grid. In a year that saw pandemic restrictions sap energy demand …

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  Build Back by Reinventing Prosperity

  citizensclimate.earth - Posted by Joe Robertson on in Blog

  The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly, and radically, altered the everyday assumptions of people around the world. We have seen shocking loss of life and …

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  Default warning as US energy sector’s financial woes persist

  Financial Times - Myles McCormick

  Defaults by US oil and gas producers are set to outstrip all other sectors again in 2021 as an industry battered by this year’s price crash faces yet more pain, according to a forecast from a rating agency. Energy will account for $15bn-$18bn of US high-yield bond defaults in 2021, Fitch predicted. …