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Alumnus Ben Abram Didn’t Set Out to Make a Difference in Clean Energy
This story is part of the Climate Research Series
The now CEO of Modern Energy, a diversified energy company that invests in renewable energy businesses with the goal of “helping the world reach a net-zero carbon economy,” studied public policy and civil and environmental engineering when he was at Duke.
But with a tendency toward insatiable curiosity and problem-solving
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