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This Mass. Town Once Lit the World With Whale Oil. Now It Wants to Do the Same With Wind Power
New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
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Biden Pledges Climate Action: ‘This Is an Emergency'
As nearly a third of the U.S. faces heat advisories, President Joe Biden spoke from Massachusetts on Wednesday to pledge executive action to combat the climate crisis. However, he stopped short of declaring a federal emergency on climate.
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Tour a Bitcoin Mining Facility Run on Clean Energy Thanks to Niagara Falls
Bit Digital, a sustainability-focused generator of digital assets and the largest bitcoin miner on the NASDAQ, recently launched a mining center in Buffalo, New York, and is working toward it using 100% sustainable power. The facility, located in an old coal factory, houses thousands of computers powered by hydroelectricity and is part of the larger trend of the crypto industry...