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The Birmingham XPress, the city's bus rapid transit line, opened last fall with the help of federal funding. The first bus route to break free of the city's old hub-and-spoke transit design, it quickly became Birmingham's most-used public transit option. Credit: Marianne Lavelle/Inside Climate News.

Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding

By Marianne Lavelle

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Lawrence Jackson of San Francisco is pictured with the rooftop solar system he had installed by GRID Alternatives.

New Research Rooted in Behavioral Science Shows How to Dramatically Increase Reach of Low-Income Solar Programs

By Dan Gearino

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

Downtown Oberlin, Ohio.

An Ohio College Town Wants to Lead on Fighting Climate Change. It Also Has a 1940s-Era, Diesel-Burning Power Plant

By Dan Gearino

The sun sets behind power transmission lines, part of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's power grid. Credit: Nick Wagner/Xinhua via Getty Images.

As Texas Cranks Up the AC, Congested Transmission Lines Cause Renewable Power to Go to Waste

By Keaton Peters

Scott Hensen, vice president of floor planning for KB Home, points to a battery display panel on a SunPower SunValut storage system inside the garage of a model home during a tour of KB Home microgrid communities in Menifee on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images

Study: Microgrids Could Reduce California Power Shutoffs—to a Point

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Milton R. Young Power Plant, located near Center, North Dakota, which is the site of Project Tundra, a plan to retrofit the plant with a carbon capture system. Credit: Minnkota Power

Carbon Capture Faces a Major Test in North Dakota

By Dan Gearino

Power lines in Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Report Says

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

A man cools himself down with water from a water fountain during one of the hottest days of the third heat wave in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on June 12, 2023. Credit: Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Is Already Straining the Mexican Power Grid

By Gina Jiménez

Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Made the Texas Heat Wave More Intense. Renewables Softened the Blow

By Kristoffer Tigue

The sign of the manufacturer of solar batteries, Sonnen GmbH, in the Bavarian village Wildpoldsried, southern Germany, is pictured on July 5, 2016. Credit: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Are Coming to Save the Grid, Sooner Than You Might Think

By Dan Gearino

Polluting vehicles and the Baltimore skyline, from Federal Hill Park. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.

Maryland Urged to Cut Emissions By Swiftly Adopting Rules Electrifying Cars and Trucks

By Aman Azhar

A residential grid-tied solar array in installed on a hillside in Malibu, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Noting a Mountain of Delays, California Lawmakers Advance Bills Designed to Speed Grid Connections

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

An aerial view of solar panels installed on the roof of buildings at a machinery equipment manufacturing industrial park in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China, on June 7, 2023. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Inexpensive Solar Panels Are Essential for the Energy Transition. Here’s What’s Happening With Prices Right Now

By Dan Gearino

Long Island Power Authority power lines along Motor Lane in Bethpage, New York on March 8, 2019. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

States Test an Unusual Idea: Tying Electric Utilities’ Profit to Performance

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

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