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Ousted CDC chief Monarez to testify RFK Jr. pushed ethics breach on vaccines - Fast Company

Former CDC chief Monarez will reveal that RFK Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccines before seeing scientific evidence.

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18.09.2025

This roof is hiding a secret: sleek new wind turbines you can barely see - Fast Company

Accelerate Wind takes advantage of the physics of buildings to generate wind power at the edge of the roof.

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18.09.2025

How NIH funding cuts could stunt U.S. research for decades - Fast Company

The larger issue is how the U.S. will choose to support science and medical research going forward.

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18.09.2025

Why is Google paying to inject cow poop into the ground? - Fast Company

The tech giant just made a deal with Vaulted Deep, a startup that injects organic waste deep underground to store CO2.

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18.09.2025

How states and cities are tackling the microplastics problem - Fast Company

State-level initiatives to tackle microplastics are starting to influence policymakers in Washington.

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17.09.2025

What it was like to be building an offshore wind farm as Trump shut it down - Fast Company

Antonio Gianfrancesco was helping build the 65 wind turbines that would have made up the largest wind farm in the U.S. Now he says: 'I still don't know if I'm going to have a job in a day or a month.'

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17.09.2025

How a refinery turns Amazon-destroying cattle into 'green' jet fuel - Fast Company

Diamond Green Diesel is a major player in the U.S. sustainable fuels market.

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16.09.2025

Overtourism hits Spain's Santiago de Compostela as locals leave - Fast Company

Santiago has emerged as the latest global destination where longtime residents have grown embittered by the overtourism transforming their community.

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16.09.2025

These new solar panels generate power from indoor light - Fast Company

The indoor solar panels will be able to power small devices like remotes and smoke detectors, replacing the need for batteries.

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13.09.2025

Maui's new temporary homes show what better disaster housing can look like - Fast Company

These beautiful new modular homes for disaster victims were supplied by FEMA. But as Trump targets the agency, their future—and a plan for better post-disaster housing—remains uncertain.

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13.09.2025

How Trump's rollback on EV policy affects clean electricity - Fast Company

What’s good for climate in the transportation sector—eliminating emissions from vehicle tailpipes—is also good for climate in the power sector.

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12.09.2025

Brazil gets one-third of its power from wind and solar for first time - Fast Company

The milestone highlights Brazil’s shift from an almost entirely hydro-based power system to one built on three main pillars: hydro, solar, and wind.

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12.09.2025

How the 3-arrows 'recycling' symbol turned into a tool for greenwashing - Fast Company

It wasn't intended to indicate plastics' recyclability. But consumers misinterpreted it, and the industry encouraged them.

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11.09.2025

Want a heat pump? This startup just cut the cost in half - Fast Company

Jetson has found a way to make a heat pump as affordable as a new gas furnace.

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09.09.2025

Warming seas threaten key food web species: Prochlorococcus - Fast Company

New research challenges decades of assumptions that Prochlorococcus would thrive as waters warmed.

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09.09.2025

This startup is geoengineering the oceans with Tums—with backing from Google, Shopify, and Stripe - Fast Company

Planetary's antacid for the seas fights climate change by reducing ocean acidification. Here's how it works, the risks, and how the startup got these companies to pay for its service.

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09.09.2025

Have an aquarium at home? You can help scientists discover how to save coral reefs - Fast Company

Seed Health and the Two Frontiers Project want home aquarists to send in samples of their corals, to learn what conditions the vital organism can—and can't—survive in.

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07.09.2025

How green spaces on college campuses boost students' health - Fast Company

Our survey confirms that students who are outdoors—in places with mature trees, open fields, parks, gardens, and water—report better moods and lower stress.

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07.09.2025

AI weather forecasting could prove valuable for farmers - Fast Company

AI tools that were experimental just five years ago are now being integrated into government weather forecasting systems.

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06.09.2025

This new cutting-edge sunscreen is made from pollen—and doesn't hurt the ocean - Fast Company

Your usual sunscreen can destroy coral when it gets into the ocean. A new prototype made from pollen offers the same sun protection without the coral bleaching.

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06.09.2025

High utility bills and hotter summers leave low-income people at risk - Fast Company

Advocates are sounding alarms about the risks to low-income people who can't afford consistent air-conditioning in extreme heat.

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05.09.2025

MIT scientists may have just cracked the code on EV battery recycling - Fast Company

Researchers just discovered a new way to build an EV battery that makes it easy to break apart at the end of its lifespan.

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04.09.2025

This old Denny's is now a colorful daycare for homeless families - Fast Company

The new Betty Bazaar Center in Los Angeles fills a huge gap in homeless services: caring for children during the day while their parents try to transition from a shelter to more stable housing.

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04.09.2025

Texas banned cultivated meat. Now cultivated meat companies are suing - Fast Company

Cultivated meat companies say Texas's ban is an unconstitutional way to protect the ranching industry from competition.

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04.09.2025

Trump administration may block another offshore wind farm - Fast Company

The New England Wind project was approved by former President Joe Biden's administration in 2024.

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03.09.2025

How nonprofits are turning to storytelling to bring more donations - Fast Company

Nonprofits are focusing more on storytelling in outreach to donors and raising production values for videos and podcasts.

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03.09.2025

Ann Arbor is reinventing the power company - Fast Company

If you live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, your rooftop could soon be part of a new type of sustainable city-owned utility.

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02.09.2025

BYD continues to surge past Tesla in Europe - Fast Company

Tesla car registrations in Europe were down for the seventh consecutive month in July. Meanwhile, Chinese EV company BYD soared.

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02.09.2025

How Florida’s Everglades use rabbit robots to combat pythons - Fast Company

Everglades officials say Burmese pythons have eliminated 95% of the park's small mammals as well as thousands of birds.

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02.09.2025

How to make restitution laws more just - and effective - Fast Company

California's REPAIR Act shows there's a better way to manage restitution, for both incarcerated people and survivors.

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02.09.2025

ICE raids are keeping workers from their jobs—and businesses are suffering - Fast Company

Trump’s aggressive enforcement against immigrants is affecting their ability to work—and hurting the businesses that rely on them.

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02.09.2025

Oregon could join Hawaii in road usage charges for EV owners - Fast Company

Oregon could become the next state after Hawii to require electric vehicle owners to enroll in a pay-per-mile program.

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02.09.2025

In Finland, this giant battery is helping heat apartments and offices—using sand - Fast Company

Thanks to a new thermal energy storage system, when residents in this small town north of Helsinki need hot water, it comes from a giant tank of super hot sand.

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02.09.2025

A national lab made a nuclear fusion breakthrough. A new startup wants to make it into a power plant - Fast Company

Inertia plans to commercialize a recent breakthrough from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—attempting to make it work at a scale that would add power to the grid.

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28.08.2025

Justice Department probes California's EPA - Fast Company

The Justice Department's investigation is aimed at determining whether the state agency engaged in discriminatory employment practices.

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