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As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants

The decentralized power systems are playing a growing role in the transition away from fossil fuels.

By Dan Gearino

A worker with Base Power installs a home battery system that can send energy back to the grid during peak times in Houston on Feb. 18, 2025. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images
A North Atlantic right whale is seen in the waters of Cape Cod Bay, Mass. Credit: Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A Bit of Good News for Right Whales

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a campaign event on May 1 in Portland, Maine. Credit: Graeme Sloan/Getty Images

Platner’s Energy Plan Prioritizes Lowering Costs and Taking on Big Oil and the ‘Oligarchy’

By Nathaniel Eisen

Solar panels are installed on the roof of a home at a housing development in Falmouth, Maine. Credit: Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

On Sullivan Planning Board, Platner Voted to Pump the Brakes on Solar

By Nathaniel Eisen

Seth Kroeck points out new spring growth in his wild blueberry fields at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Wild Blueberry Farms Across Maine Suffer as Climate Change Upends Growing Seasons

By Sydney Cromwell

An aerial view of the Wyman Power Station, a peaker plant, on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine. Credit: Gabe Souza/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine Presses Pause on Large Data Centers. Will Other States Follow Its Lead?

By Dan Gearino

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

Workers survey the damage after flash floods collapsed a bridge in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen

Researchers catch lobsters as part of long-term ecosystem survey in Maine. Credit: Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI.org)

Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters

By Nicole Williams

Richard Silliboy uses a machine to pound an ash log in his workshop. Once pounded, the log will divide into layers that can be separated and thinned into strips for basketmaking. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

By Sydney Cromwell

Sen. Susan Collins enters the U.S. Captiol on Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

By Nathaniel Eisen

Petroleum storage tanks reside next to the Ferry Village neighborhood near the South Portland waterfront. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

There’s Something in the Air in South Portland, Maine

By Ryan Krugman, Inside Climate News, and Sabrina Shankman, Boston Globe

Plug-in solar panels hang from a balcony in Stralsund, Germany. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

New England Lawmakers Weigh Plug-in Solar as Europe’s Model Spreads

By Ryan Krugman

“Wild” ice skaters are seen on Maine’s Megunticook Lake in December 2025. Wild skaters seek out frozen water bodies rather than man-made rinks. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Behr

For Maine’s Lakes, Shorter Ice Seasons Mean Loss of Water Quality, Winter Traditions

By Sydney Cromwell

Oil refineries off of the Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas. According to the United Nations, "fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for around 68 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions." Credit: Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images

Post-COP 30 Modeling Shows World Is Far Off Track for Climate Goals

By Ryan Krugman

A shellfish harvester pours out small littleneck clams from a net at the Winnegance oyster farm on the New Meadows River in West Bath, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine’s Shellfish Harvesters Are Caught up in Climate-Related Closures

By Ben Seal

Zak and Lena Kendall perform onstage during GoldenOak’s album release show at Portland House of Music and Events. Credit: Ryan Flanagan

A Maine Folk Band Finds Its Voice in a Warming World

By Ryan Krugman

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

From left: Scott Vlaun, Renee Igo, Tamra Benson and Ania Wright talk around a table at the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Nonprofit Center Works with Rural Maine Towns to Prepare for and Protect Against Extreme Weather

By Sydney Cromwell

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