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Clean Energy

The technologies and innovations enabling the decarbonization of the global energy economy and disrupting business-as-usual.

Inside Clean Energy: The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar

As California works on a new net metering policy, other states are grappling with similar issues.

By Dan Gearino

Contractors move a SunRun Inc. solar panel up a ladder to the roof of a new home at the Westline Homes Willowood Cottages community in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Phil McKenna poses with his new, HFC-free refrigerator. Courtesy of Phil McKenna

Want to Buy a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator? Leading Manufacturers Are Finally Providing the Information You Need

By Phil McKenna

The Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi Mountains on March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: What Happens When Solar Power Gets Much, Much Cheaper?

By Dan Gearino

A farmer feeds cows in front of wind turbines that stand at the Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Fowler, Indiana on Aug. 3, 2016. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Wind Energy Is a Big Business in Indiana, Leading to Awkward Alliances

By Dan Gearino

A Volkswagen ID 3 electric car is seen in a glass cage during a press conference in Berlin on May 8, 2019. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Well That Was Fast: Volkswagen Quickly Catching Up to Tesla

By Dan Gearino

Mark Reuss, General Motors president speaks at their Detroit- Hamtramck assembly plant on Jan. 27, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The Solid-State Race: Legacy Automakers Reach for Battery Breakthrough

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines generate electricity at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Where Can We Put All Those Wind Turbines?

By Dan Gearino

A driver places a hydrogen fuel pump into a Mirai hydrogen fuel powered automobile, manufactured by Toyota Motor Corp., at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's first U.K. hydrogen refueling station in Cobham, U.K., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Race to Scale Up Green Hydrogen to Help Solve Some of the World’s Dirtiest Energy Problems

By Nathalie Thomas,  David Sheppard,  Neil Hume, Financial Times  

Japanese Police wearing protective suits search for tsunami victims about 12 miles away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on April 7, 2011 in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: 10 Years After Fukushima, Safety Is Not the Biggest Problem for the US Nuclear Industry

By Dan Gearino

A man views a General Electric refrigerator displayed for sale at a Lowe's Cos. store in Torrance, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

I Tried to Buy a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator. What I Got Was a Carbon Bomb.

By Phil McKenna

Work proceeds on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm, 27 miles off Virginia Beach. (Credit: Dominion Energy)

On U.S. East Coast, Has Offshore Wind’s Moment Finally Arrived?

By Jon Hurdle, Yale Environment 360

Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction

By Dan Gearino

Each day more than 12 million pounds of garbage is dumped, spread, compacted and finally covered with a layer of dirt at the Klickitat County landfill owned by Republic Services. It sits on a plateau above the Columbia River in southern Washington. Credit: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times

Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change

Hal Bernton, Seattle Times

Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds during the Forbes Media Centennial Celebration at Pier 60 on September 19, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Warren Buffett Explains the Need for a Massive Energy Makeover

By Dan Gearino

A coastal view of Tilos island, Greece. Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images

The Greek Island Where Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Rule

By Kerin Hope

President Roosevelt delivers a speech at the dedication of the U.S. Rural Electrification Project. Credit: Getty Images

A Legacy of the New Deal, Electric Cooperatives Struggle to Democratize and Make a Green Transition

By James Bruggers

Employees of the Goldbecksolar company stand in a solar park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020

By Dan Gearino

Workers install wind turbines at Yuxia wind farm on mountain on June 15, 2020 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province of China. Credit: Chen Fuping/VCG via Getty Images

How the Race for Renewable Energy is Reshaping Global Politics

By Leslie Hook and Henry Sanderson

Workers repair a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis

By Dan Gearino

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