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![An aerial view of a city skyline surrounded by green areas and mountains in the background.]()
![An aerial view of a city skyline surrounded by green areas and mountains in the background.]()
The downballot races that could transform energy policy in Arizona and Nebraska
The energy future of fossil-fuel dependent Phoenix could be reshaped by some clean-energy advocates who just won seats on the board of a public power utility.
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![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
The lowly light bulb is the Biden administration’s latest climate-fighting tool
The DOE is tripling efficiency standards for light bulbs, a move that will cut CO2 emissions by 70 million metric tons and save consumers $27 billion over 30 years.
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![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
DOJ thinks Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is trespassing on tribal lands
But the agency stopped short of telling the company to move.
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![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
For a just transition to green energy, tribes need more than money
Advice from an Indigenous researcher: "To go fast, start slow."
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![Atomic plant Vogtle is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia.]()
![Atomic plant Vogtle is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia.]()
Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era
The $35 billion nuclear project is an investment in the future or a cautionary tale, depending whom you ask.
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![A power plant belches smoke at sunset.]()
![A power plant belches smoke at sunset.]()
The US aims to ‘crack the code’ on scaling up geothermal energy production
Per the Department of Energy, 10 percent of electricity could be generated by geothermal systems by 2050.
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![Solar panel on patch of flowers and grass with large circular shadow on the panels]()
![Solar panel on patch of flowers and grass with large circular shadow on the panels]()
What the eclipse reveals about the progress and shortfalls of US energy
When an eclipse blocks out the sun, we get a glimpse of how our grid uses fossil fuels to compensate — and a future where it won't have to.
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![US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a briefing on community climate action alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Eli Allen, Senior Program Director of Civic Works Baltimore, and Kristal Hansley, CEO and Founder of WeSolar, at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, July 14, 2023.]()
![US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a briefing on community climate action alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Eli Allen, Senior Program Director of Civic Works Baltimore, and Kristal Hansley, CEO and Founder of WeSolar, at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, July 14, 2023.]()
These ‘green banks’ are getting billions to decarbonize disadvantaged communities
The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country.
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![A worker on roof reaches out for a solar panel being handed to him by another worker.]()
![A worker on roof reaches out for a solar panel being handed to him by another worker.]()
How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar
Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade
Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals.
