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![A small fishing boat sits in calm waters with two men on board]()
![A small fishing boat sits in calm waters with two men on board]()
Meet the small business owners electrifying Maine’s rural coast
In Casco Bay’s remote waters, electric workboats and the aquaculture innovators who operate them are putting marine electrification to the test.
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![Oil pump jacks with the sun setting in the background]()
![Oil pump jacks with the sun setting in the background]()
How low oil prices turned Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ into a pipe dream
Trump promised boom times for the U.S. oil industry. They're laying off staff and reducing spending instead.
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![Voting stickers are seen in the Georgia primary on election day, May 24th, 2022]()
![Voting stickers are seen in the Georgia primary on election day, May 24th, 2022]()
How to get Georgia voters to turn out for the PSC election? Talk about their power bills.
Campaigns and activists are racing to educate voters on the Public Service Commission, elected officials with power over energy bills and climate action.
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![Several smokestacks stand in the background with one belching smoke and in the foreground are trees and an American flag]()
![Several smokestacks stand in the background with one belching smoke and in the foreground are trees and an American flag]()
US taxpayers will pay billions in new fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill
A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.
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![An aerial view of a canal cutting through agricultural fields with huge black solar panels stretched over it]()
![An aerial view of a canal cutting through agricultural fields with huge black solar panels stretched over it]()
California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online
The 1.6-megawatt pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.
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![the Chinese space station Tiangong is seen orbiting Earth.]()
![the Chinese space station Tiangong is seen orbiting Earth.]()
Data centers gobble Earth’s resources. What if we took them to space instead?
A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.
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![Teenagers with yellow signs rally outside of a white building]()
![Teenagers with yellow signs rally outside of a white building]()
Students, schools race to save clean energy projects in face of Trump deadline
Many projects such as solar panels and electric school buses may not meet new deadlines for tax credits under the “big, beautiful bill.”
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![Dozens of wind turbines spin against a blue sky with solar panels in the foreground]()
![Dozens of wind turbines spin against a blue sky with solar panels in the foreground]()
States fast-track wind and solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
Federal tax credits have brought project costs down 30 to 50 percent, advocates say.
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![The Eddystone Generating Station in Eddystone, Pennsylvania was to close in May but will remain open under a Trump administration order.]()
![The Eddystone Generating Station in Eddystone, Pennsylvania was to close in May but will remain open under a Trump administration order.]()
Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open.
The Department of Energy is citing Trump's declaration of an "energy emergency" and voracious data centers in its decision to keep the plant outside of Philadelphia running.
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![A line of high voltage electrical pylons is seen in a field.]()
![A line of high voltage electrical pylons is seen in a field.]()
Josh Hawley’s ‘huge win’ will be a big loss for clean energy — and ratepayers
It's only been a few weeks since the Trump administration and Missouri Republicans killed the Grain Belt Express transmission line, but it's already clear rates will go up.
