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Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 3 States to Watch in 2021

Even with Biden in charge, much of the action on clean energy will remain at the state level.

By Dan Gearino

The Massachusetts State House the seat of Government in Boston. United States. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images
The Des Moines City Council unanimously voted this week in favor of a resolution that sets a goal of reaching 24/7 carbon-free electricity by 2035. Credit: Steve Pope/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Des Moines Just Set a New Bar for City Clean Energy Goals

By Dan Gearino

Re-Powering intern and an estate resident with the solar photo voltaic panels on the roof of Hackney council estate Bannister House, the first community solar installation on an estate in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

As Big Energy Gains, Can Europe’s Community Renewables Compete?

By Paul Hockenos

A worker controls batteries in an electricity storage container on Sept. 29, 2020 in Fontenelle near Dijon in France. Credit: Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived

By Dan Gearino

German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019.

The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale

By Dan Gearino

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation

By Dan Gearino

A charging cable is plugged into a Volvo electric vehicle in London on Nov. 18, 2020. Credit: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Was 2020 The Year That EVs Hit it Big? Almost, But Not Quite

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Restrictive safety standards in the U.S. and elsewhere have limited production of propane based air conditioners to just 1 percent of total capacity from 18 assembly lines across China that were retooled to use propane with money from the United Nations. Credit: Feng Hao

Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them

By Phil McKenna and Feng Hao

Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio

By Dan Gearino

Two cyclists ride on the car-free section of Friedrichstraße in Berlin, where a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour (12 mph) applies. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Trains, Walking, Biking: Why Germany Needs to Look Beyond Cars

By Dan Gearino

PacifiCorp's Hunter coal fired power pant releases steam as it burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Era of Fossil Fuel Power Plants Is Rapidly Receding. Here Is Their Life Expectancy

By Dan Gearino

Stalks of corn are seen near York, Nebraska. The state is steadily increasing its use of renewable energy, helped by strong winds. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Transition Comes to Nebraska

By Dan Gearino

Last year, Clif unveiled a two-megawatt, five-acre solar farm with pollinator-friendly habitat at its bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho. Credit: Jared Lauritsen

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry

By Ilana Cohen

A saguaro cactus is seen against the blue sky in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Despite rich solar resources, Arizona's policies have often been unfriendly to solar power. But that's changing with the adoption of a statewide plan to get to 100 percent ca

Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Net-Zero Plan Unites Democrats and Republicans

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

Many Photovoltaik solar panels arranged as part of a solar powerplant. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Not a Great Election Year for Renewable Energy, but There’s Reason for Optimism

By Dan Gearino

Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep

By Dan Gearino

An airplane takes off in California. Air travel emissions are a significant portion of all transportation emissions, and could be addressed with planes fueled by hydrogen. Credit: dsleeter_2000/flickr

Airbus Hopes to Be Flying Hydrogen-Powered Jetliners With Zero Carbon Emissions by 2035

By Leto Sapunar

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