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![President Biden sits at a desk surrounded by other politicians and signs a bill]()
![President Biden sits at a desk surrounded by other politicians and signs a bill]()
GOP-run districts get 85% of the benefit of climate law. Some still hate it.
A new tally shows the overwhelming number of jobs and projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act go to conservative states that back Trump.
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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.]()
Voices of Vogtle: Four oral histories
Interviews with people who live near or work closely with Plant Vogtle, America’s largest nuclear power plant.
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Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
A new fleet of buses can send power back to the grid, stabilizing it instead of straining it.
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Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
With electricity demand spiking, the Southern Company has opted to keep burning fossil fuels.
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![digital collage of Badger Mountain in Washington with large solar panels with a red scribble on top of them in the background]()
![digital collage of Badger Mountain in Washington with large solar panels with a red scribble on top of them in the background]()
Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites
Avangrid Renewables said it plans to review comments from tribal nations and private landowners.
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![A group of women with headdresses and red face paint shout together]()
Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen?
More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.
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![Digital collage of a politician giving a speech at a podium in front of an American flag with two hands holding a sign that reads Yes to Renewable Energy Now!]()
![Digital collage of a politician giving a speech at a podium in front of an American flag with two hands holding a sign that reads Yes to Renewable Energy Now!]()
Politicians don’t get how popular climate action is. That’s a problem.
The misperception gap widens when officials get more money from fossil fuel interests.
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Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid
The grid is overburdened, under-resourced — and vital to the energy transition. New federal funding aims to increase capacity and get more clean energy built.
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On a rural Hawaiian island, solar provides a path to energy sovereignty
A community-driven effort is driving Molokaʻi's transition to solar power and cultivating a local workforce to make it happen.
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![Oil well with gray substance leaking]()
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States want to clean up leaky oil wells. Well-intentioned laws are getting in the way.
Hard-to-meet federal requirements are slowing down the pace of remediation, state regulators say.
