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New York Cooks Up a Plan to Boost Energy Efficiency in Public Housing

The state plans to pay for induction stoves to be installed in 10,000 apartments across New York City. A Bronx walk-up provides an early look at what’s to come.

By Lauren Dalban

Workers remove an old stove from a Bronx apartment as part of a full-building induction stove installation in New York City. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News
Activists advocate for New York City buildings to be less reliant on gas during a February protest in front of the National Grid office in Brooklyn. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

What Happens If New York Buildings Use Less Gas?

By Lauren Dalban

A view of apartments in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

How City Leaders in New York Plan to Help Co-Op Buildings Reduce Emissions

By Lauren Dalban

A pipe provides natural gas to an apartment building in Queens, New York City. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Windows Open, Heating On: A New York City Winter 

By Lauren Dalban

Dwayne Petko, owner and operator of Energy Matters LLC, conducts a blower door test to check for building air leaks in Sunbury, Ohio. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Are We Doing This Again? Home Efficiency Pros Are Wary as Ohio Gets Federal Rebates, Just a Few Years After State Funding Was Yanked

By Dan Gearino

A contractor visits Amparo Vigil's building in San Francisco's outer Mission District in September 2024 before putting in a bid to work on a solar panel installation and the transition to electric heat pumps and other appliances. Credit: Twilight Greenaway/Inside Climate News

Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That

By Twilight Greenaway

Blue flames rise from the burner of a natural gas stove in Orange, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

California Cities Planned to Shut off Gas in New Buildings, but a Lawsuit Turned it Back On. Now What?

By Twilight Greenaway

Each day more than 12 million pounds of garbage is dumped, spread, compacted and finally covered with a layer of dirt at the Klickitat County landfill owned by Republic Services. It sits on a plateau above the Columbia River in southern Washington. Credit: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times

Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change

Hal Bernton, Seattle Times

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