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![A coal-fired power plant in Wyoming]()
From peak to plummet in 15 years: Coal continues its precipitous decline
"This is not an economic cycle that is simply going to go away. It is a real phaseout across the industry of the use of coal."
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![Three red-colored apartment buildings with fire escapes, as seen from below]()
![Three red-colored apartment buildings with fire escapes, as seen from below]()
Inside a $110 million plan to turn NYC apartments into virtual power plants
Logical Buildings and Keyframe Capital are behind the push to help multifamily buildings earn money from cutting energy use and curbing emissions.
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Radical eco-activists have made it into mainstream fiction. Is reality next?
History suggests novels about monkeywrenching could inspire real-world copycats.
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California takes the lead on curbing Big Oil price gouging
The state's pioneering law could set limits on the industry's profits, and impose fines on those that exceed it.
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Melting Antarctic ice may strangle vital ocean currents
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects on the ocean's ability to store carbon.
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![A bearded man in a red coat holds a large white box surrounded by pipes.]()
![A bearded man in a red coat holds a large white box surrounded by pipes.]()
The natural gas pushback
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
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![An aerial view of a mansion surrounded by trees with cars parked in front of the garage and street in front of the house.]()
![An aerial view of a mansion surrounded by trees with cars parked in front of the garage and street in front of the house.]()
Who buys electric cars in California — and who doesn’t?
Electric cars are almost nonexistent in Black, Latino, low-income, and rural communities — revealing the enormous task that California faces electrifying the entire fleet.
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American cities want to recycle their plastic trash in Mexico. Critics call it ‘waste colonialism.’
A new recycling plant in Mexicali raises legal and ethical concerns.
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![Electrical transmission lines at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California's Mojave Desert.]()
![Electrical transmission lines at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California's Mojave Desert.]()
Biden administration releases road map to scale up nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage
The reports address key challenges and potential solutions for getting these clean energy technologies off the ground.
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![Three boys stand next to a banyan tree upended by a cyclone, giant roots exposed.]()
![Three boys stand next to a banyan tree upended by a cyclone, giant roots exposed.]()
The tiny island nation of Vanuatu just scored a big climate win
It convinced the UN to urge the world's highest court to rule on whether polluting nations must address climate change
