Clean industry
How to clean up the dirtiest parts of chemicals manufacturing
The government has a blueprint to reduce the carbon pollution of chemical production. Here are some key takeaways.
By Eric Wesoff .
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Clean industry
Chart: Heavy industry is the world’s biggest decarbonization challenge
The production of oil and gas, cement, steel, and other industrial products is enormously polluting. Decarbonizing these sectors will take a while.
By Dan McCarthy .
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Hydrogen
We need green hydrogen to clean up heavy industry. Who's making it?
There’s essentially no clean hydrogen produced in the U.S. today, but developers are hustling to build projects to supply low-carbon steel, cement and chemicals.By Julian Spector .
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Clean industry
The trillion-dollar quest to make green steel
From Arkansas to the Arctic Circle, steel manufacturers are exploring ways to decarbonize the CO2-intensive steel industry.By Maria Gallucci .
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Clean industry
'Electrowinning' could help win the race to clean up dirty steel
Startup Electra wants to replace blast furnaces with battery-like systems that use acid solution and clean electricity to pull pure iron out of low-grade ores.By Jeff St. John .
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Clean industry
To decarbonize cement, the industry needs a full transformation
Cement production has an enormous carbon footprint. That can be curbed with plug-and-play solutions, but eliminating emissions entirely will require big, ambitious action.By Jeff St. John .
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Video: See how this NYC factory traps CO2 in concrete blocks
Canary Media visits a Brooklyn warehouse and the basement of a Manhattan high-rise to learn how CO2 can be captured and turned into construction material.By Maria Gallucci .
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Clean industry
6 innovative startups that are kicking CO2 out of cement and concrete
Cement-making is a 150-year-old process. These companies are using new additives, chemistries and methods that could curb the industry's oversize climate impact.By Maria Gallucci, Jeff St. John .
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Clean industry
Cleaning up steel, cement and chemicals is tough — and entirely doable
These top-emitting industries make the materials we depend on. In a special series, Canary Media explores the complex, tricky path to decarbonizing all three.By Maria Gallucci .
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Clean industry
The huge climate problem of cement, steel and chemicals, visualized
These three materials are essential, carbon-intensive and produced in mind-bogglingly large quantities. -
Clean energy manufacturing
Can the US lead on clean aluminum? Ford, GM and others hope so
A group of 14 major aluminum buyers wants the U.S. to invest in low-carbon production of the metal, which is vital for EVs, solar panels and many other products.By Alison F. Takemura .
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