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DOE Launches $10 Million Prize to Accelerate Community Solar in Underrepresented Communities
DOE’s Community Power Accelerator™ will help create pipeline of projects ready for financing, award-winning projects demonstrate best practices in community solar.
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- Energy
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- North America
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U.S. Sustainable Investing Assets Plunge by More Than US $8 Trillion
A new report says a greenwashing crackdown by the U.S. SEC is partly driving massive reassessment of ESG assets.
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- Investing
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- North America
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GM to Put Thousands of Electric Vehicle Chargers in Rural America
General Motors is moving ahead with plans to install as many as 40,000 electric vehicle chargers in, mostly, rural parts of America. This comes as GM plans to sell exclusively zero-emission passenger vehicles by 2035.
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- Technology
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- North America
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ESG Foes in States, Congress Ready Attacks on ‘Woke’ Investing
Republican lawmakers and state attorneys general are preparing to make their most aggressive assaults on environmental, social and governance investing to date after victories in the House and courts.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG investing
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JPMorgan Chase Committing $15 Million to Increase the Supply of Climate Resilient Affordable Housing for Black, Hispanic and Latino Households
JPMorgan Chase announced five organizations will receive philanthropic commitments of $3 million each to scale innovative climate resilient affordable housing models.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- housing, innovation, philanthropy, scale
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Republicans Withdraw $1 Billion From BlackRock Due to Its ESG Policies
Multiple U.S. states governed by Republicans are withdrawing state funds from BlackRock’s management, as they disapprove of the ESG investment policies of the world’s top asset manager, the Financial Times reports.
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- Investing
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Press Release: 2022 Financial Health Pulse: Financial Health Drops in U.S. for First Time in Five Years of Measurement
New data shows erosion of financial health gains from pandemic, led by significant declines in middle- and upper-income earners, black people and women.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Red State Republicans’ War on ESG Will Have Losses on Both Sides
GOP lawmakers in some of the most conservative US states are trying to ban banks and asset managers that consider ESG criteria from their pension funds and municipal markets, but the move might backfire.
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- Investing
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- North America
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