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![A red Tesla Model Y is partially submerged in the flooded parking lot of an apartment building.]()
![A red Tesla Model Y is partially submerged in the flooded parking lot of an apartment building.]()
Helene and Milton reveal an emerging challenge for first responders: EV batteries catching fire
“They burn hot, they burn fast, and they're hard to extinguish."
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![Two women assemble a photovoltaic solar panel in a factory in Texas]()
![Two women assemble a photovoltaic solar panel in a factory in Texas]()
The solar supply chain runs through this flooded North Carolina town
Hurricane Helene's closure of two essential quartz mines in North Carolina reveals the precarity of the solar energy product pipeline.
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![Smoke rising from a coal-fired power plant]()
![Smoke rising from a coal-fired power plant]()
Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle
Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state's Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators.
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![Many colorful rows of tightly packed sewing machines and workers at a factory.]()
![Many colorful rows of tightly packed sewing machines and workers at a factory.]()
Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things worse.
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the biggest polluter in the industry.
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![An Amazon Web Services data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world.]()
![An Amazon Web Services data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world.]()
Amazon says it’s going ‘water positive’ — but there’s a problem
The company’s pledge to conserve water at its data centers doesn’t account for the thirsty power plants that keep them running.
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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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How do you convince someone to live next to a nuclear waste site?
Engineers know how to build a site that can safeguard nuclear waste for 100,000 years. The challenge is convincing people to live next to it.
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![An array pf tall steel smokestacks and pipes with one central smokestack that is billowing white smoke.]()
![An array pf tall steel smokestacks and pipes with one central smokestack that is billowing white smoke.]()
Illinois Legislature puts the brakes on a carbon capture boom
A two-year moratorium on pipelines would be a first in the Midwest. Already, more than 20 capture wells have been proposed.
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![A father and his young daughter plug in their electric vehicle outside their home.]()
![A father and his young daughter plug in their electric vehicle outside their home.]()
California’s EV wave highlights the challenges ahead for utilities
As much as $20 billion in upgrades will be required, but the electric vehicle transition could still reduce rates statewide.
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![Collage of person walking away from Microsoft logo, which contains an image of an oil pumpjack]()
![Collage of person walking away from Microsoft logo, which contains an image of an oil pumpjack]()
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
