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California takes the lead on curbing Big Oil price gouging
The state's pioneering law could set limits on the industry's profits, and impose fines on those that exceed it.
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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.]()
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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![Electrical transmission lines at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California's Mojave Desert.]()
![Electrical transmission lines at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California's Mojave Desert.]()
Biden administration releases road map to scale up nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage
The reports address key challenges and potential solutions for getting these clean energy technologies off the ground.
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![Solar panels and wind turbines on November 15, 2022, near Mojave, California.]()
![Solar panels and wind turbines on November 15, 2022, near Mojave, California.]()
US renewable power surged ahead of coal for the first time last year
Experts say the trend still isn’t fast enough to stop the worst impacts of climate change.
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How the natural gas industry cozies up to utility regulators
Sponsorships, stacked panels, dance parties: Inside utilities' campaign to convince regulators of the bright future for natural gas.
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![On a patch of brown sand, yellow pipes stretch into the distance with a red flag blowing in the wind in the foreground.]()
![On a patch of brown sand, yellow pipes stretch into the distance with a red flag blowing in the wind in the foreground.]()
Report: Texas fracking is exacerbating the PFAS crisis
A "staggering volume" of PFAS are being injected into fracked wells.
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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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Welcome to Utah, where pipeline protests could now get you at least five years in prison
Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws.
