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![The stacks of the Salt River Project generating station near Randolph, Arizona.]()
![The stacks of the Salt River Project generating station near Randolph, Arizona.]()
A historic Black community fights to block Arizona utility’s expansion plan
The town of Randolph is is now virtually surrounded by gas plants, pipelines, a hazardous waste site and a steel company contracted to manufacture the former president’s border wall.
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![A Nebraska farmer holds two ears of corn in his hand]()
![A Nebraska farmer holds two ears of corn in his hand]()
Despite what you may think, ethanol isn’t dead yet
The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics.
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![the owner of a white Nissan Leaf electric vehicle plugs the car into a charger mounted on the wall of his garage.]()
![the owner of a white Nissan Leaf electric vehicle plugs the car into a charger mounted on the wall of his garage.]()
A California bill could help make EVs a blackout solution
The state might require every electric vehicle to be capable of powering your home — and the grid — through a process called bidirectional charging.
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![wind turbine in ny state]()
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After a four-year campaign, New York says yes to publicly owned renewables
The state has set ambitious climate targets. Now it'll build the clean energy it needs to meet them.
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![Rolling hills and forest are interrupted by an enclosure with a gas installation.]()
![Rolling hills and forest are interrupted by an enclosure with a gas installation.]()
Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning
A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
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![A green field covered in black solar panels under a cloudy sky.]()
![A green field covered in black solar panels under a cloudy sky.]()
Solar and wind companies are coming to rural Texas. These residents are trying to keep them out.
In Franklin County, a group of locals are concerned about potential environmental harm from renewable energy facilities and support a bill that would impose more regulations on solar and wind. The industry says it’s being unfairly singled out.
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For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
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A transition to clean energy was supposed to be equitable. Instead, it’s hurting Indigenous communities.
“I constantly receive information that Indigenous Peoples fear a new wave of green investments."
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![A woman installs solar panels on a roof in Isabela, Puerto Rico.]()
![A woman installs solar panels on a roof in Isabela, Puerto Rico.]()
What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico’s energy resilience? Residents have ideas.
As the Department of Energy aims to boost energy reliability in Puerto Rico, local solutions are already doing just that.
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![Protesters stand in front of Chase bank]()
![Protesters stand in front of Chase bank]()
A new bill in Oregon could target environmental protesters as terrorists
The blue state could become the 20th in the U.S. to enact a so-called critical infrastructure law.
