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‘You need to clean up the mess your generation has left’: Volkswagen’s guilty boomer gets real about sustainability, China—and his spam folder

Volkswagen’s sustainability chief told Fortune that Europe’s industrial champions cannot protect their way out of China’s electric-vehicle challenge.

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026
‘Europe needs to shed its naivety’: Vestas CEO Henrik Andersen on Chinese competition and the energy issue that keeps him up at night
‘Europe needs to shed its naivety’: Vestas CEO Henrik Andersen on Chinese competition and the energy issue that keeps him up at night
By Sam BirchallOctober 2, 2026
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Ford’s Jim Farley says Gen Z needs its own ‘Smokey Bear’ moment for the forest fire of AI paranoia, the jobs apocalypse and the skilled trades
By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 30, 2026
Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years
Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years
By Sydney LakeSeptember 30, 2026
Asia’s boardrooms risk missing the biggest cost of climate change: human health
Asia’s boardrooms risk missing the biggest cost of climate change: human health
By Mitch NewSeptember 30, 2026
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property
By Sasha RogelbergSeptember 30, 2026
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Hawaii’s governor wants to suspend the housing market ‘to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab’
By Bobby Caina Calvan, Christopher Weber, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated PressAugust 17, 2023
  • Surf’s up in California as climate change leads to more massive waves
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    Surf’s up in California as climate change leads to more massive waves
    By Julie Watson and The Associated PressAugust 3, 2023
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Gas industry activity linked to asthma, and rare cancer in children in ‘bombshell’ report
By Marc Levy and The Associated PressAugust 16, 2023
Startup developing technology for sucking carbon from air just sold to a Warren Buffett-backed oil giant for $1.1 billion
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Startup developing technology for sucking carbon from air just sold to a Warren Buffett-backed oil giant for $1.1 billion
By Kevin Crowley and BloombergAugust 15, 2023
‘I heard buzz, buzz’: Downed power lines are a prime suspect in at least some of Maui’s devastating wildfires
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‘I heard buzz, buzz’: Downed power lines are a prime suspect in at least some of Maui’s devastating wildfires
By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, Michael Biesecker and The Associated PressAugust 15, 2023
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‘The gods are angry’: How climate change is reshaping one of the world’s oldest religions from bliss to punishment
By David L. Haberman and The ConversationAugust 15, 2023
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Gen Z activists just won a first-of-its-kind trial against the state of Montana for violating their right to a clean environment
By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated PressAugust 15, 2023
  • Korea is so hot workers are being given ice vests to cool down
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    Korea is so hot workers are being given ice vests to cool down
    By Heesu Lee and BloombergAugust 3, 2023
A firefighter puts water on a smoldering stump in California
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California’s fire risk just hit its highest level of the year
By Chris MorrisAugust 14, 2023
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Exploding house in Pennsylvania draws at least 18 fire departments: ‘It’s just tragic, I mean, it looks like a war zone — it looks like a bomb hit our neighborhood’
By The Associated PressAugust 13, 2023
‘You can’t do a lot with a closed landfill’: Why a solar farm near London is being built on trash
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‘You can’t do a lot with a closed landfill’: Why a solar farm near London is being built on trash
By Priscila Azevedo Rocha and BloombergAugust 12, 2023
The Maui fire is affecting and displacing thousands of pets. Here’s how you can help
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The Maui fire is affecting and displacing thousands of pets. Here’s how you can help
By Chris MorrisAugust 11, 2023
Trapping ambient CO2 could be a game-changing breakthrough in the fight against climate change.
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Biden administration makes largest ever investment in ‘engineered carbon removal’, spending $1.2 billion to vacuum up climate-warming gases in the air
By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated PressAugust 11, 2023
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    The heat is so bad in Iran that the government declared a 2-day public holiday amid scorching 122-degree temperatures
    By Liza Tetley, Jack Wittels, Arsalan Shahla and BloombergAugust 2, 2023
Wildfires devasted the island of Maui.
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Maui counts at least 55 dead as Lahaina residents had little warning before flames engulfed their town
By The Associated PressAugust 11, 2023
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Maui wildfire devastates crown jewels of local heritage: ‘All the places that are tourist areas, that are Hawaiian history, are gone, and that can’t be replaced’
By Mark Thiessen, Audrey McAvoy and The Associated PressAugust 10, 2023
‘Nowhere is immune’: Maui’s devastating fires that have killed at least 6 and destroyed a historic tourist town are fueled by climate change
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‘Nowhere is immune’: Maui’s devastating fires that have killed at least 6 and destroyed a historic tourist town are fueled by climate change
By Claire Rush and The Associated PressAugust 9, 2023
Juneau, Alaska
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Alaska’s capital just lost 2 homes to a flash flood from its glacier’s ‘Suicide Basin’—but probably not because of climate change
By Becky Bohrer and The Associated PressAugust 9, 2023
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Judge bucks horse people, allows program rounding up wildlife by helicopter to proceed despite 31 mustang deaths
By Scott Sonner and The Associated PressAugust 9, 2023
Electric bus maker with a factory that Joe Biden toured just two years ago has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Electric bus maker with a factory that Joe Biden toured just two years ago has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
By The Associated PressAugust 8, 2023
New York City’s shark attack came despite heightened monitoring—with drones
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New York City’s shark attack came despite heightened monitoring—with drones
By Chris MorrisAugust 8, 2023
Mining companies push back as Biden set to announce new Grand Canyon national monument in Arizona: ‘We need uranium’
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Mining companies push back as Biden set to announce new Grand Canyon national monument in Arizona: ‘We need uranium’
By Chris Megerian, Terry Tang and The Associated PressAugust 8, 2023
Automakers are bashing the EPA plan for emissions limits. Environmentalists contend ‘it isn’t enough’
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Automakers are bashing the EPA plan for emissions limits. Environmentalists contend ‘it isn’t enough’
By Tom Krisher and The Associated PressAugust 6, 2023
‘We repeated ignition’: Lab behind nuclear fusion breakthrough duplicates success after months of near-misses
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‘We repeated ignition’: Lab behind nuclear fusion breakthrough duplicates success after months of near-misses
By David R. Baker and BloombergAugust 6, 2023
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‘Book printer’ beetles are wreaking havoc on Germany’s primeval forests because they can live so long in the warmer climate
By Matthias Schrader, Dana Beltaji and The Associated PressAugust 6, 2023
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Oregon’s $91 million Dungeness crab market can’t get over the humpback whale entanglement rules
By The Associated PressAugust 6, 2023
Juneau, Alaska
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Alaska’s capital built a beautiful tourist center in sight of its epic glacier. Then the glacier began to rapidly shrink
By Becky Bohrer and The Associated PressAugust 6, 2023
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‘It’s about time’:You can now pump your own gas in Oregon for the first time in 72 years
By Andrew Selsky and The Associated PressAugust 5, 2023
Work on Washington Monument-sized wind turbines—the Atlantic’s tallest— is about to start off Martha’s Vineyard
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Work on Washington Monument-sized wind turbines—the Atlantic’s tallest— is about to start off Martha’s Vineyard
By Will Wade and BloombergAugust 4, 2023
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Lower productivity, higher mortality rates, and indoor overcooling. Here’s why heat waves are so much worse for women
By Talia VarleyAugust 4, 2023
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Oregon’s veteran crabbers are terrified their work will disappear because activists want to stop ‘extremely rare’ cases of whale entanglement
By Ed Komenda and The Associated PressAugust 4, 2023
Study finds waves along parts of California coast are getting bigger—with the number of 13-foot waves doubling
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Study finds waves along parts of California coast are getting bigger—with the number of 13-foot waves doubling
By Chris MorrisAugust 4, 2023
The real reason Tesla beat its rivals in the charging wars
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The real reason Tesla beat its rivals in the charging wars
By Behnam TabriziAugust 3, 2023
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