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This Giant Truck Shows Clean Steel Is Possible. So When Will the US Start Producing It?

New federal incentives for producing hydrogen are an opportunity to build steel plants that have much lower emissions.

By Dan Gearino

A dump truck made of steel produced without the use of fossil fuels is the second of its kind sold in North America. Credit: Volvo
A Volkswagen ID.5 electric cars drives over the test track at the company's Zwickau plant on Jan. 27, 2022 in Zwickau, Germany. Credit: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

Women Are Less Likely to Buy Electric Vehicles Than Men. Here’s What’s Holding Them Back

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Wind turbines spin above corn fields near Carroll, Iowa on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. Credit: Bill Clark/Getty Images

These Small- and Medium-Sized States Punch Above Their Weight in Renewable Energy Generation

By Dan Gearino

Solar tracker panels follow the sun's path on May 17, 2014 on a Champlain Valley dairy farm near West Haven, Vermont. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Do Solar Farms Lower Property Values? A New Study Has Some Answers

By Dan Gearino

An Engie employee looks out toward the wind turbines during a tour for the dedication of the Limestone Wind Project in Dawson, Texas, on Feb. 28, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California

By Dan Gearino

Aaron Sinclair, of Dave's World, installs a heat pump at the home of Roland and Dale Bois on Sept. 25, 2018. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

‘Green Hydrogen’ Would Squander Renewable Energy Resources in Massachusetts

By Phil McKenna

A Nissan Leaf at a EV charging station at Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Why It’s Time to Officially Get Over Your EV Range Anxiety

By Dan Gearino

Randy DeBaillie walks toward his solar panels at his farm in Orion, Illinois on Feb. 3, 2019. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow?

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

The Fairbault Community Solar project, located just east of Faribault, Minnesota. Credit: Cooperative Energy Futures

Community Solar Is About to Get a Surge in Federal Funding. So What Is Community Solar?

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels sprawl across the Mojave Desert on Aug. 14, 2022 near California City, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Public Lands in the US Have Long Been Disposed to Fossil Fuel Companies. Now, the Lands Are Being Offered to Solar Companies

By Wyatt Myskow

Kathryn Huff on a tour of Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Credit: PNNL

Meet the Millennial Scientist Leading the Biden Administration’s Push for a Nuclear Power Revival

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines stand along the ridge of Backbone Mountain on Aug. 23, 2022 near Oakland, Maryland. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Minnesota Has Passed a Landmark Clean Energy Law. Which State Is Next?

By Dan Gearino

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is seen after the Senate Luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

What Is Permitting Reform? Here’s a Primer on the Drive to Fast Track Energy Projects—Both Clean and Fossil Fuel

By Dan Gearino, Kristoffer Tigue

Assorted Lego pieces on display at a 'Dream Toys' event on Nov. 14, 2018 in London, England. Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

What Lego—Yes, Lego—Can Teach Us About Avoiding Energy Project Boondoggles

By Dan Gearino

A train carrying cars loaded with coal leaving a nearby coal mine is seen in front of Dry Fork Station, a coal fired power plant operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative on Monday May 8, 2017 in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant in the United States

By Dan Gearino

A crane operator sifts through mounds of garbage at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The trash is burned and used to generate electricity. Credit: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Is Poised to Pass an Ambitious 100 Percent Clean Energy Bill. Now About Those Incinerators…

By Aydali Campa

Solar panels and wind turbines are pictured on a barren mountain at Shenjing Village on July 2, 2018 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province of China. Credit: VCG

When Will We Hit Peak Fossil Fuels? Maybe We Already Have

By Dan Gearino

View of the downtown Pittsburgh skyline at dusk, showing the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers joining to form the Ohio River. Credit: Steven Adams/Getty Images

Pittsburgh Selects Sustainable Startups Among a New Crop of Innovative Businesses

By Jon Hurdle

Newly installed solar panels at the Local 103 headquarters in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Renewables Projected to Soon Be One-Fourth of US Electricity Generation. Really Soon

By Dan Gearino

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