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WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin Says She’d Rather Be A ’19th Century Liberal Or A Wet Tory’ Than Conservative Protectionism

WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin Says She’d Rather Be A ’19th Century Liberal Or A Wet Tory’ Than Conservative

January 30, 2020 1:23 PM ET Washington Post’s “conservative opinion writer” Jennifer Rubin lamented about the party Thursday, writing that she’d rather be a “19th century liberal or a wet Tory.” Rubin, who has often been rebuked for calling herself a conservative, began by tweeting that the impeachment trial has…
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January 30, 2020
Surging Mineral Demand Produces Sharper Focus on ‘Ethical’ Batteries Lithium

Surging Mineral Demand Produces Sharper Focus on ‘Ethical’ Batteries

Julien Harneis/wikimedia commonsBlockchain-enabled transparency, rigorous third-party mining standards, local production, and recycling are among the strategies in play to create batteries that are planet- and people-friendly—a tall order, given that the supply chains supporting the EV revolution remain linked to environmental degradation and human suffering.“By decade’s end the battery market…
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January 30, 2020