2019 was the year that…

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It was a very good year, except when it wasn't, writes GreenBiz chairman and executive editor Joel Makower

It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal. So much happens in the course of a year - from governments,...

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