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A drilling method for extracting oil and gas that involves injecting fluids at high pressures into shale rock.
What is fracking (or hydraulic fracturing)?
This metal is a key component in modern batteries, and is also effective in treating depression.
What is lithium?
This US president promoted environmental policies in many different ways, including by installing solar panels on the roof of the White House. Unfortunately, the panels were removed (and many of his policies were undone) by his successor, Ronald Reagan.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
In Percy Jackson and The Titan's Curse, by Rick Riordan, the main characters - Percy Jackson, Thalia Grace, and Grover Underwood - visit this famous dam in the American West.
This country is the world's leading producer and exporter of natural gas.
What is the United States of America?
This fossil fuel company has emitted the most carbon dioxide equivalent of any investor-owned firm since 1965. Their total emissions over this period equal a staggering 43.35 billion tons.
What is Chevron?
Despite most lithium being mined outside this country, it dominates every other step of the global battery supply chain, from lithium refining, to battery manufacturing, to battery sales.
What is China?
This federal law, passed in 2022, was the signature legislation of the Biden Administration. It is the largest investment every made by the US government in clean energy, particularly wind, solar, and energy storage.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
China is home to several of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world, including this dam, the current largest power station in the world by generating capacity.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
The area between these two cities on the banks of the Mississippi River is often called "Cancer Alley" due to the environmental problems caused by the more than 200 petrochemical plants and refineries in there. The residents of the area, most of them Black, are at higher risk of fetal issues, cancer, and numerous health issues due to the air, water, and metals pollution caused by the fossil fuels industry.
What are Baton Rouge and New Orleans?
The Canadian company TC Energy abandoned this pipeline project in 2021 after over a decade of protests led by Indigenous groups.
What is the Keystone XL Pipeline?
The largest lithium deposits in the world are located in the salt flats of the Lithium Triangle, an area in South America which covers the meeting point of these 3 countries.
What are Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina?
The first prototype of this technology essential to solar power was created in America by Charles Fritts using selenium. Nowadays, based on advances made around the world, but particularly at Bell Labs in the US, over 90% of the solar market uses crystalline silicon versions of these to produce direct current (DC) power.
What is the photovoltaic cell?
The Grand Renaissance dam, near the source of the Blue Nile River in this country, is the largest dam in Africa. Due to concerns over water scarcity, the dam has led to significant geopolitical tensions in the area, especially with nearby Egypt.
What is Ethiopia?
The deadliest industrial accident in US history occurred in this area in 1947, when a ship carrying fertilizer caught fire, causing a chain reaction which led to explosions on nearby ships and at nearby oil refineries. Today, this area is home to the two largest oil refineries in the US, and is located near the headquarters of fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Baker Hughes, ConocoPhillips, and many more.
What is the Galveston Bay Area?
This bank has funded the most new fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement.
What is Citigroup? (Citibank also accepted)
In the Americas (and most of the world), lithium is extracted from the brine found in salt flats. In this country, the largest producer of lithium in the world, lithium concentrate is mined out of rock deposits.
What is Australia?
While less common, concentrated solar power (CSP) is a viable, if more expensive, method of generating clean power from the sun, especially for desert countries. This European country is a leader in CSP generation, with a third of the world's CSP generative capacity.
What is Spain?
While dams are usually hailed as sources of clean energy, a significant downside to creating reservoirs is that due to the anaerobic decomposition of the plant life in the flooded area, dams can lead to significant emissions of this gas, which has a much greater warming effect than CO2.
What is methane?
The world's largest oil refinery is operated by the Ambani-owned Reliance Industries at Jamnagar in this Indian state. Jamnagar is also home to India's second largest oil refinery, which is partially owned by Rosneft, the state-owned Russian fossil fuel giant.
What is Gujurat?
The Ohio state park that was most recently approved as a site of fracking by the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission.
What is Salt Fork State Park?
Due to agricultural runoff, mismanagement, and other issues, this California lake became an ecological disaster site in the late 1900s. In recent years, the area has seen renewed interest, as geothermal activity in the area makes lithium mining possible.
What is the Salton Sea?
In 2023, this country in southern Africa generated more than 20% of its energy via solar power, likely the highest proportion in the world. However, these gains are counterweighted by this country's mining sector, which is one of the world's leading producers of diamonds and uranium.
What is Namibia?
According to the Native American historian Vine Deloria Jr., the Pick-Sloan program, which built dams throughout this river basin, was "without doubt, the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States". As a result of the program, reservations belonging to several Sioux tribes were flooded without permission to create dam reservoirs.
What is the Missouri River Basin?
This port along the Red Sea was the first steamship coaling station to be established through occupation in the British Empire.
What is Aden?