Environmentalists Urge EPA Standards To Curb Cryptocurrency Emissions

Environmentalists are joining a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) call for EPA to craft standards to curb harmful climate and other impacts of cryptocurrency “mining,” asking “regulators at all levels” to join the effort, as Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, aims to slash emissions through a shift in operations. In their September report , “The Energy Bomb -- How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Worsens the Climate Crisis and Harms Communities Now,” Sierra Club and Earthjustice catalog what...