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Natural Gas Battles Local Climate Efforts : NPR

6 days ago

Tyler Hollon, who works for a construction company in Utah, says eliminating natural gas from apartment buildings can reduce costs. Hollon’s company now shares its designs and budgets with other builders. “The reason we’re giving it away is to clean up the air,” Hollon says. “We want everybody to do it. It’s everybody’s air that we’re all breathing. Makes my mountain bike ride that much easier.”

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Facing the rising threat of wildfire and extreme drought, Flagstaff, Ariz., unveiled an ambitious effort two years ago to cut the heat-trapping

Finance

Bank of America matches efforts by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase with net-zero financing goal

2 weeks ago Andi Crot

Bank of America joined select other big banks who’ve pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through its financing before 2050.

Some environmental-minded and risk-averse shareholders are increasingly concerned about the systemic impacts of climate change to the economy, including that major banks continue to finance growth in fossil-fuel projects.

Last summer, Bank of America
BAC,
+1.49%
joined the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). In collaboration with 15 other financial institutions, Bank of America participated in the development of the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry, which is intended to provide a consistent methodology to