The race for clean energy is local
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The U.S. power grid is at a critical crossroads. Electricity generation, like every other industry,…LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising
Nov 4, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Los Angeles County announced last week that it’s suing PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic…On the ballot in your state: A guide to 2024’s climate voter referendums
Nov 4, 2024, 4:00 am By Christopher Harress, ReckonAfter the hottest 12 months on record, during which fossil fuel production and extreme weather…Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What could go wrong?
Nov 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Mario Alejandro Ariza
It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of…Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
Nov 2, 2024, 2:14 pm By Zoya Teirstein
It’s been a little over a month since Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeastern United…Climate-fueled extreme weather is hiking up car insurance rates
Nov 2, 2024, 9:00 am By Kiley Price, Inside Climate NewsAs climate change accelerates, hurricanes, wildfires and hail storms pound the U.S. with growing…How climate voters could swing the presidential election
Nov 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In the final days before the presidential election, roughly 2,000 volunteers from all around the…The Department of Energy wants to pay companies to make greener solar panels
Nov 1, 2024, 4:30 am By Maddie Stone
In June, U.S. solar manufacturer Qcells became the second company in the world to register its solar…The next president could address the plastics crisis — or worsen it. Here’s how.
Nov 1, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Whoever ends up in the White House after next week’s presidential election will face a suite of…San Francisco’s surprisingly difficult quest to turn a century-old highway into a park
Oct 31, 2024, 4:45 am By Matt Simon
On a chilly weekend in mid-September, the wind-blasted dunes of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach loomed…A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments
Oct 31, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
This week, representatives of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and the Pit River Nation used the…5 ways to get out the vote for climate in the final days before the U.S. presidential election
Oct 30, 2024, 11:02 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “For so long, we’ve assumed that when the climate crisis got bad enough, everybody…This disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to noisy, polluting generators
Oct 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News Network
Seventeen days after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, tearing down power lines,…The link between climate disasters and authoritarian regimes
Oct 29, 2024, 9:00 am By L.V. Anderson
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m L.V. Anderson (or Laura to my colleagues), a…Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?
Oct 29, 2024, 4:45 am By L.V. Anderson
In November 2013, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in history made landfall in the…More farms are turning to automation amid labor shortages
Oct 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead,…Chronic health problems amplify heat risk in the Rio Grande Valley
9:00am By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
Something seemed amiss when police officer Oscar Lizarraga arrived at the Conquistador Apartments.…A former Utah coal town could soon become a hub for low-carbon cement
Sat 9:00am By Maria Gallucci
The city of Magna, Utah, was once the home of a major coal-fired power plant that provided…Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data shows
Oct 25, 2024, 4:30 am By John McCracken
In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city…Helene and Milton upended a key part of the nation’s food supply
Oct 24, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
When Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida three weeks ago, Jason Madison was alone at his…
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