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![A series of electrical towers and wires leading to a large plant.]()
![A series of electrical towers and wires leading to a large plant.]()
El Paso charter fight tests whether a Texas city will move away from fossil fuels
Climate activists have turned to local initiatives to rein in carbon emissions, including a May special election in El Paso.
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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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![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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![A man in jeans and a plaid shirt and flip flops stands in front of two other people in a shady patch of soil under large trees.]()
![A man in jeans and a plaid shirt and flip flops stands in front of two other people in a shady patch of soil under large trees.]()
The shift to a green energy future is renewing plantation-era water wars in Hawaii
A proposed hydro project in Kauai — the first of its kind in the world — could supply up to a quarter of the island’s power by diverting 4 billion gallons a year from the Waimea River.
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Itochu quietly assembled a gigantic home battery network in Japan
The conglomerate controls a 36,000-unit virtual power plant. Up next? Unleashing it to help the national grid decarbonize.
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![On a reddish tree, mushrooms with grey caps and white bellies grow in a clump.]()
![On a reddish tree, mushrooms with grey caps and white bellies grow in a clump.]()
Oyster mushrooms expected to break down cigarette butts in new trial
Up to 1.2 million butts could be diverted from Australian landfills to a laboratory where scientists will work to transform the byproduct into a polystyrene replacement.
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![The tops of tropical trees appear below a blue sky.]()
![The tops of tropical trees appear below a blue sky.]()
How saving the rainforests could prevent the next pandemic
In Madagascar, a program to provide healthcare and agricultural support transformed a community's relationship to the rainforest.
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![A vast, endless field of rows of silver solar panels under a blue sky.]()
![A vast, endless field of rows of silver solar panels under a blue sky.]()
As millions of solar panels age out, recyclers hope to cash in
Solar panels have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years, and companies are emerging that seek to recycle the valuable, reusable materials and keep the panels out of landfills.
