The Biden Administration Moves to Slash Carbon Pollution From Power Plants Guidelines were crafted to pass Supreme Court review, but hurdles remain By Osha Gray Davidson May 11, 2023 In this story: EPA, clean energy, coal, climate change
ICYMI: Carbon-Capture Perfume, Flu Kills the Condors & Tahoe Is Clear Again A weekly roundup for busy people By Paul Rauber April 14, 2023 In this story: climate change, clean energy, electric vehicles, wildlife
TVA Reaches an Inflection Point In the past three months, the company has issued rolling blackouts, invested in gas plants, and blown up three smokestacks without adequate public preparation By Austyn Gaffney February 18, 2023 In this story: utilities, oil, methane gas, clean energy
How Does a Heat Pump Actually Work? This humble technology reduces home emissions. Here's how it works. By Paul Rauber January 6, 2023 In this story: clean heat, technology, clean tech, clean energy, clean buildings
Can We Have Our Clean Energy and the Environment Too? Developing the minerals and metals for the clean energy economy will come with trade-offs By Lindsey Botts December 14, 2022 In this story: clean energy
Clean Power at a Steep Price Extracting the lithium that EVs need could destroy this rare desert ecosystem in Chile By Vince Beiser December 13, 2022 In this story: clean energy, electric vehicles, renewable energy, mining, technology
Many Utilities’ Net-Zero Commitments Amount to a Big Zero for Climate The new “Dirty Truth” report finds power companies often prefer greenwashing to green energy By Jonathan Hahn October 3, 2022 In this story: clean energy, climate change, 100 percent clean energy, utilities, federal policy
The Black Dunes of Detroit A Downriver childhood By Nancy Dziedzic September 4, 2022 In this story: transportation, clean energy, dirty energy, racial justice
Want to Go Off-Grid? Don’t Buy a Big House. How our family’s quest to go carbon neutral hit a very big snag By Anrica Deb September 3, 2022 In this story: renewable energy, utilities, clean energy, lifestyle, science
PG&E, the Mountain Maidu, and a Very Powerful River A group of Mountain Maidu has reclaimed its former lands, but not the water By Lauren Markham March 15, 2022 In this story: indigenous communities, utilities, clean energy