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Should EPA Back-Off Pollution Controls to Help LNG Exports Replace Russian Gas in Germany?

Cheniere Energy says the agency’s decision to start enforcing pollution controls on gas turbines is “counterproductive” in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Environmentalists strongly disagree.

By James Bruggers

The new Cheniere LNG export terminal is across the water, in Louisiana, from the neighborhood of Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers
Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

Olaf Scholz is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany, which won the largest share of the vote, 25.7 percent, edging ahead of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU). Credit: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images

German Election Prompts Hope For Climate Action, Worry That Democracies Can’t Do Enough

By Bob Berwyn

Volunteers and residents start the clean up process at their shops and restaurants following severe flash flooding on July 18, 2021 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Credit: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

In a Summer of Deadly Deluges, New Research Shows How Global Warming Fuels Flooding

By Bob Berwyn

Re-Powering intern and an estate resident with the solar photo voltaic panels on the roof of Hackney council estate Bannister House, the first community solar installation on an estate in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

As Big Energy Gains, Can Europe’s Community Renewables Compete?

By Paul Hockenos

German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019.

The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale

By Dan Gearino

Two cyclists ride on the car-free section of Friedrichstraße in Berlin, where a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour (12 mph) applies. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Trains, Walking, Biking: Why Germany Needs to Look Beyond Cars

By Dan Gearino

bucket-wheel excavator removes the first layer of soil for the expansion of the nearby Welzow open-pit lignite coal mine on August 20, 2010 near Drebkau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal

By Dan Gearino

Dense traffic on Autobahn 8 in Germany. Credit: Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images

Love is Blind: How Germany’s Long Romance With Cars Led to the Nation’s Biggest Clean Energy Failure

By Dan Gearino

Participants in the Fridays For Future movement protest during a nationwide climate change action day in front of the Brandenburg Gate on September 20, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

How Dying Forests and a Swedish Teenager Helped Revive Germany's Clean Energy Revolution

By Dan Gearino

An empty mall in lower Manhattan on March 29, 2020

Coronavirus: When Meeting a National Emissions-Cutting Goal May Not Be a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

Germans Line Up Against Fracking

By Catherine Stupp

Lignite mining machine in Germany

Germany: A Black Eye From Brown Coal

By Peter Friederici

For Green Germany, an Uneasy Embrace of Coal

By Peter Friederici

Solar-Fabrik, a solar panel manufacturer

Germany: Heading Toward 80% Clean Power

By Peter Friederici

Renewable energy advocates protest against Xcel Energy

Boulder Likely to Pursue Its Own Green Utility

By Maria Gallucci

Electric car outside of EWS, Germany's first green power cooperative utility.

Clean Break, Chap. 6: A U.S.-Made Clean Energy Revolution?

By Osha Gray Davidson

Electric trolley in Vauban, a car-free, energy-efficient zone in Freiburg.

Clean Break, Chap. 5: Renewables Shift Transforms Hamburg

By Osha Gray Davidson

Anti-nuclear protest in Freiburg, Germany, in March 2011.

Clean Break, Chap. 4: Truth of Germany's Nuke Phase-Out

By Osha Gray Davidson

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