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California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon.

An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.

By Claire Barber

Workers are seen at the Pastoria Battery Energy Storage System facilities on April 16 in Arvin, Calif. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Emissions spew from a large stack at the coal fired Brandon Shores Power Plant, on March 9, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson via Getty Images

As PJM Reopens Interconnection Queue, Experts Warn Damage to Maryland’s Clean Energy Plans Is Already Done

By Aman Azhar

Graves mark the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

A Los Angeles gas station on April 30, 2026. Californians are reckoning with surging gas prices—the highest nationwide according to data from the motor club, AAA. Gasoline prices have surged as the war in Iran continues. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6-a-Gallon Price for the War in Iran

By Steven Rodas

A substation at the coal-fired Naughton power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

By Jake Bolster

The charging station at the Pilot Travel Center near London, Ohio, was set up by a partnership between General Motors, Pilot Company and EVgo, with some funding from the federal government. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

The Trump Administration Tried to Stop the National EV Charging Program. It Has Kept Rolling Along Anyway.

By Dan Gearino

Mining trucks load lithium sulfate in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Before 2021, the Ohio Power Siting Board had approved every wind and solar project to come before it. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Ohio Is Where Wind and Solar Projects Go to Die, and Other Findings From New Research on State Permitting

By Dan Gearino

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said President Trump “took a wrecking ball to solar and wind energy projects.” Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Clean Energy

Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Department’s Budget Irk Senate Democrats

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigator tested wastewater from Tesla’s Robstown lithium refinery on Feb. 12. Credit: Travis Prater/Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Independent Testing Where Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Discharges Wastewater Found Toxic Metals

By Arcelia Martin

Power lines run through rural Prince George’s County in Maryland. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Maryland Passes Energy Bill That Delivers Short-Term Relief, Locks Ratepayers into Long-Term Nuclear Subsidy

By Aman Azhar

A person travels through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in September 2019 in northern Minnesota. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Just Lost Protection From Mining

By Ana Radelat, MinnPost

People fill their vehicles at a gas station in Miami on Monday. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Rising Gas Prices Make the Market Ripe for Electric Vehicles, but US Automakers Can’t Seize the Moment

By Dan Gearino

A lithium-ion battery is installed at a home in Granada Hills, Calif. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California’s Climate Leaders Talk Clean Energy Growing Pains and the War on Iran

By Claire Barber

Transmission lines lead away from a coal-fired power plant in China Township, Mich. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump’s Tax Refunds Do Little to Stem the Affordability Crisis, Michigan Democrats Say

By Arcelia Martin

Turbine blades for the Revolution Wind offshore wind project are seen at State Pier in New London, Conn., on Aug. 25, 2025. Credit: Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images

Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

In Austin, Texas, the Elemental Critical Data Center facility. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Data Center Developers Play Offense on Water, Claiming Huge Cuts in Usage 

By Arcelia Martin

Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Los Angeles refinery is seen on April 2 in Carson, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance

By Marianne Lavelle

The coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station is seen from the Valley Village neighborhood on Feb. 14 in Louisville, Ky. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Unpacking Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Prop Up Coal

By Dan Gearino

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