ICYMI: Carbon-Capture Perfume, Flu Kills the Condors & Tahoe Is Clear Again By Paul Rauber April 14, 2023 A weekly roundup for busy people In this story: climate change, clean energy, electric vehicles, wildlife
TVA Reaches an Inflection Point By Austyn Gaffney February 18, 2023 In the past three months, the company has issued rolling blackouts, invested in gas plants, and blown up three smokestacks without adequate public preparation In this story: utility rates, oil, fracked gas, clean energy
How Does a Heat Pump Actually Work? By Paul Rauber January 6, 2023 This humble technology reduces home emissions. Here's how it works. In this story: Building Electrification, technology, clean tech, clean energy, clean buildings
Can We Have Our Clean Energy and the Environment Too? By Lindsey Botts December 14, 2022 Developing the minerals and metals for the clean energy economy will come with trade-offs In this story: clean energy
Clean Power at a Steep Price By Vince Beiser December 13, 2022 Extracting the lithium that EVs need could destroy this rare desert ecosystem in Chile In this story: clean energy, electric vehicles, renewable energy, mining, technology
Many Utilities’ Net-Zero Commitments Amount to a Big Zero for Climate By Jonathan Hahn October 3, 2022 The new “Dirty Truth” report finds power companies often prefer greenwashing to green energy In this story: clean energy, climate change, 100 percent clean energy, utility rates, federal climate policy
The Black Dunes of Detroit By Nancy Dziedzic September 4, 2022 A Downriver childhood In this story: transportation, clean energy, dirty energy, racial justice
Want to Go Off-Grid? Don’t Buy a Big House. By Anrica Deb September 3, 2022 How our family’s quest to go carbon neutral hit a very big snag In this story: renewable energy, utility rates, clean energy, lifestyle, science
PG&E, the Mountain Maidu, and a Very Powerful River By Lauren Markham March 15, 2022 A group of Mountain Maidu has reclaimed its former lands, but not the water In this story: indigenous communities, utility rates, clean energy
Federal Agency Charts New Course on Environmental Justice and Climate By Juliet Grable March 10, 2022 FERC moves to reform its decision-making, despite criticism from fossil fuel companies In this story: clean energy, fossil fuels