Articles by Climate News Reporting Fellow Rebecca Egan McCarthy
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![Windmills offshore in front of a blue sky]()
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Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
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![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them
Federal laws meant to protect land and wildlife are being misused to curb wind and solar development across the U.S.
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![Close-up of text reading Hydrogen Fuel Cell Zero Emission on the side of a city bus in Albany, California, indicating that the bus is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell technology, December 13, 2018.]()
![Close-up of text reading Hydrogen Fuel Cell Zero Emission on the side of a city bus in Albany, California, indicating that the bus is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell technology, December 13, 2018.]()
A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.
Natural hydrogen could transform the clean energy sector — if we can find enough of it.
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![A firefighter stands on a hill overlooking Los Angeles. He's spraying a hose. Below him is a fire and billowing smoke; above him is a helicopter.]()
![A firefighter stands on a hill overlooking Los Angeles. He's spraying a hose. Below him is a fire and billowing smoke; above him is a helicopter.]()
As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer
The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.
