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DOE Restarts Home Efficiency Rebates, and Electrification Is the Biggest Loser

New rules for the $8.8 billion in program funding no longer promote electric home heating.

By Dan Gearino

HVAC technicians install a heat pump system at a home in Charlotte, Vt., on July 21, 2025. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images
The headquarters of American Efficient in Durham, N.C. Credit: Matt Ramey/The Assembly

Feds Fine Durham-Based Energy Efficiency Company $722 Million

By Lisa Sorg

Transmission lines dot the rural landscape of Dwight, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Renewable Energy Act Before Illinois Legislature Would Decrease Stress on Ratepayers, Advocates Say

By Sarah Mattalian

Baysi Vasquez’s daughter, Ivanna, stands in front of their home where heat pumps were installed. “All farmworkers deserve the right to affordable air conditioning,” she said. Credit: Twilight Greenaway/Inside Climate News

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy

By Twilight Greenaway

A freeze in a federal loan program affects nonprofits across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Ind., where David de Leon is construction manager. His organization works to restore old houses for use by low-income families. Credit: Rachel Von Art/Inside Climate News

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino

Regional grid operators are responsible for the reliability of the transmission networks. Many operators hold auctions to pay power producers and energy efficiency aggregators, like American Efficient, to balance the supply and demand of electricity. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Is FERC’s Future at Stake in its Titanic Clash with American Efficient?

By Lisa Sorg

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin gives a speech on Feb. 24 in McLean, Va. Credit: Valerie Plesch/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Virginia Judge Pauses State’s Return To RGGI During Youngkin’s Appeal

By Charles Paullin

Steven Nadel testifies during a U.S. Senate committee hearing about a lighting efficiency bill in September 2007. Credit: C-SPAN

His Decades of Advocacy Saved You Money While Fighting Climate Change. Here’s His Advice for This Moment

By Dan Gearino

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

Marisol Genao is smiling in her doorway of a brick end-unit rowhouse

These Brooklyn Homeowners Couldn’t Afford to Go Green. Then Help Arrived

By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY

Hotel Verdant in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Credit: Hotel Verdant/Charlestowne Hotels

A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

By Dan Gearino

A three-dimensional lighting installation is pictured in Ganton Street on Nov. 10, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The installation features 51 oversized LED light bulbs and was commissioned to James Glancey Design. Credit: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures

Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Reinvented

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

New York City skyline at dusk. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

New York City Sets Ambitious New Rules for Its Biggest Emitters: Buildings

By Nicholas Kusnetz

National Renewable Energy Lab researcher David Moore holds a perovskite ink painted solar cell. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

Trump's Budget Cuts Could Have a Chilling Effect on U.S. Clean Energy Leadership

By Dan Gearino

Home-builder Bill Decker explains some of the techniques used to create highly energy-efficient homes in chilly southeast Michigan. Credit: Dan Gearino/InsideClimate News

Net-Zero Energy Homes Pay Off Faster Than You Think—Even in the Chilly Midwest

By Dan Gearino

Air conditioning units line a street in New Delhi, India. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Rising Demand for Air Conditioning Is Adding to Global Warming. The Numbers Are Striking.

By Phil McKenna

What's Really Behind the Drop in CO2 Emissions?

By Maria Gallucci

Ernie Moniz

Gas Industry Push to Kill Clean Energy Law Splits Greens

By Maria Gallucci

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