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![People on a dark street wait in line behind a food stand illuminated by a fluorescent light. The server wears a festive hat]()
Another year, more power outages in Puerto Rico
Unstable electricity is a fact of life on the island, where privatization, underinvestment, and climate change leave the grid at constant risk of collapse.
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![in a black and white photo, Jimmy Carter stands behind a podium with the presidential seal and in front of solar panels on the roof of the White House]()
![in a black and white photo, Jimmy Carter stands behind a podium with the presidential seal and in front of solar panels on the roof of the White House]()
Energy is central to American politics. That all started with Jimmy Carter.
We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.
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![Floating three levels of machinery on ocean.]()
What’s missing from Biden’s offshore drilling ban? The western Gulf of Mexico.
That's where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil.
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Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more?
Grist sat down with environmental journalist Marco Visscher to talk about his new book on the rise, fall, and return of nuclear.
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![A bearded man in a white tee shirt and white baseball cap sits in a boat on a river]()
Developers eye Louisiana, Texas coasts for offshore carbon storage
Is the Gulf of Mexico the ‘single best opportunity’ to store climate-warming gas — or would that pose an existential threat to wildlife and people?
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As states line up to battle Trump over climate, Pennsylvania could be on the sidelines
Incoming Attorney General Dave Sunday didn’t mention climate change on the campaign trail, but fossil fuel donations tell a different story.
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![Elon Musk adjusts his sunglasses and Donald Trump looks on from two paces behind him. The two men are together to watch the launch of a SpaceX rocket.]()
![Elon Musk adjusts his sunglasses and Donald Trump looks on from two paces behind him. The two men are together to watch the launch of a SpaceX rocket.]()
How Elon Musk could end fossil fuel subsidies
If the Department of Government Efficiency wants to cut $2 trillion in spending, handouts to the fossil fuel industry may be "a truth test to all of their messaging."
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![A freight train near Moab, Utah, makes its way up a steep grade]()
How a fantasy oil train may help the Supreme Court gut a major environmental law
Even if the railway promoters win, here's why the train won’t get built.
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Biden administration warns natural gas expansion would drive up domestic costs
New study shows LNG exports risk raising greenhouse gas emissions, hampering efforts to curtail the climate crisis.
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![President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the latest developments in Syria from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on December 9, 2024 in Washington, DC.]()
![President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the latest developments in Syria from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on December 9, 2024 in Washington, DC.]()
In his final weeks, Biden aims to cut off funding for oil and gas projects abroad
Trump would have a hard time undoing a potential international agreement to end most export credits for fossil fuel infrastructure.
