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An electric car charges at a mall parking lot on June 27, 2022 in Corte Madera, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

New US Car and Truck Emissions Standards Will Make or Break Biden’s Climate Legacy

By Marianne Lavelle

Sunrun installers place solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills, California. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Denies Bid from Home Solar Company to Sell Power as a ‘Micro-Utility’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Lithium-air battery cells photographed in the lab of Mohammad Asadi at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The cells, about the size of a button or a dime, are hooked up to battery analysis equipment. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology

This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range

By Dan Gearino

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

An electric car charges at a Motor Fuel Group station on Sept. 29, 2021 in London, England. Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

What’s the Future of Gas Stations in an EV World?

By Dan Gearino

Westlands Solar Park, near the town of Lemoore in the San Joaquin Valley of California, is the largest solar power plant in the United States and could become one of the largest in the world. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

In California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar Constraint: The Need for More Power Lines

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A dead whale is found on Rockaway Beach in the Queens Borough in New York City, United States on Feb. 17, 2023. Credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Republicans Propose Nationwide Offshore Wind Ban, Citing Unsubstantiated Links to Whale Deaths

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

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

By Dan Gearino

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

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