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![A photo illustration of the YouTube logo on mobile phone screens with a dark, ominous background.]()
![A photo illustration of the YouTube logo on mobile phone screens with a dark, ominous background.]()
How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.
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Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes fossil fuel companies think twice about building the next one.
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Puerto Rico is using residents’ home batteries to back up its grid
The yearlong pilot could be the first step in creating a residential-storage virtual power plant larger than any in North America.
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A huge battery has replaced Hawaiʻi’s last coal plant
Plus Power’s Kapolei battery is officially online. The pioneering project is a leading example of how to shift crucial grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy.
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![Two men in fluorescent yellow jackets and white hard hats work in cranes on an electrical line shaded by palm trees.]()
![Two men in fluorescent yellow jackets and white hard hats work in cranes on an electrical line shaded by palm trees.]()
Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the South. They became loyal industry advocates.
A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009.
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![A quaint Maine town with shingled homes sitting on the water next to small boats.]()
Maine towns band together to offer ‘energy navigators,’ extra funding for home energy upgrades
The program, funded by a federal grant and set to launch in mid-2024, aims to fill cost gaps and ease confusion over government rebates as residents seek to cut heating costs and emissions.
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![Green trees and water and green marsh grass along Georgia coastline.]()
![Green trees and water and green marsh grass along Georgia coastline.]()
Advocates in Georgia call for better protections for salt marshes, a key carbon sink
Proposed changes to current law spur call for an overhaul.
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![Mayabel Rents waits for a bus during a tidal flooding event in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2015.]()
![Mayabel Rents waits for a bus during a tidal flooding event in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2015.]()
Study: Climate migration will leave the elderly behind
Coastal populations will get older — and more fragile — as young people flee rising seas, according to new academic research.
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Renewables are booming — but not enough to meet COP28 goals
The world agreed to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. A new IEA report finds we’re currently off track.
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Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children
Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.
