Articles by Akielly Hu
Akielly Hu is a former Grist news and politics reporting fellow.
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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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![Solar panels and wind turbines on November 15, 2022, near Mojave, California.]()
![Solar panels and wind turbines on November 15, 2022, near Mojave, California.]()
US renewable power surged ahead of coal for the first time last year
Experts say the trend still isn’t fast enough to stop the worst impacts of climate change.
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![Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, a Republican Congressman from California, signs a resolution that would have overturned a Biden administration rule allowing retirement fund managers to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions at the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2023. President Biden has vetoed the bill.]()
![Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, a Republican Congressman from California, signs a resolution that would have overturned a Biden administration rule allowing retirement fund managers to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions at the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2023. President Biden has vetoed the bill.]()
What is ESG, the investment strategy under attack by Republicans?
ESG is called “woke capitalism” by the right and “greenwashing” by the left. But to most investors, it’s just common sense.
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![Emissions from a coal-fired power plant blow into the distance]()
![Emissions from a coal-fired power plant blow into the distance]()
To protect downwind states from smog, EPA cracks down on coal power pollution
The new “Good Neighbor” plan will halve nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants by 2027.
