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An installer places a solar panel system on the roof of a home on Jan. 23, 2018 in Palmetto Bay, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

In Florida, DeSantis May End the Battle Over Rooftop Solar With a Pen Stroke

By Aman Azhar

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s a Cool New EV, but You Can’t Have It

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels combined with generators provide electricity on Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Is Struggling to Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Despite Biden’s Support

By Kristoffer Tigue

Excavators and bulldozers stack thermal coal at Lianyungang Port on Nov. 17, 2021 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Credit: Wang Chun/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up

By Dan Gearino

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Are United In California Rooftop Solar Fight, with One Notable Exception

By Dan Gearino, Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Sale

By Dan Gearino

In Chernobyl, a Ukrainian technician in 1998 checked a spot with a Geiger counter in the forest outside the damaged nuclear plant, which burned in a wildfire in 1992, six year after the worst nuclear accident in history. The fire burned 667 acres. As a consequence, the radioactive fallout was released in smoke aerosols and transported various distances while radioactive ashes remained on the site. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Getty Images.

Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has Sparked in Ukraine

By Michael Kodas

A conceptual rendering of solar canopies covering part of Turlock Irrigation District's 110-foot-wide main canal, near Turlock, California. Credit: Turlock Irrigation District

Inside Clean Energy: In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Papalote, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

Transmission towers carry power lines through Suffolk County in Commack, New York on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Credit: John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images

New Faces on a Vital National Commission Could Help Speed a Clean Energy Transition

By James Bruggers

Close-up of a photovoltaic solar energy panel with reflection of the sun. Credit: Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress

By Dan Gearino

An installer for the solar company, Sunrun, uses a level while installing solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Dan Gearino

A sign warns of icy conditions on Interstate Highway 35 on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation

By Dan Gearino

Members of the environmental advocacy group Stand.earth awarded a tongue-in-cheek “coal medal” on Wednesday to Lululemon Athletica, best known for its yoga gear, at the company's Vancouver store. The fast-growing apparel brand relies heavily on coal power to source, weave and dye its fabric and manufacture its clothing. Credit: Stand.earth

Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions

By Phil McKenna

The LS Power-Diablo Battery Energy Storage System, a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: LS Power

Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own

By Dan Gearino

Power lines in West Reading, Pennsylvania, February 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Overwhelmed by Solar Projects, the Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Seeks a Two-Year Pause on Approvals

By James Bruggers

A solar park near Berlin. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: As Efficiency Rises, Solar Power Needs Fewer Acres to Pack the Same Punch

By Dan Gearino

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle property is seen in November 2021. Photo Courtesy of Georgia Power

In Georgia, Bloated Costs Take Over a Nuclear Power Plant and a Fight Looms Over Who Pays

By James Bruggers

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