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Inflation Reduction Act

Cities Stand to Win Big With the Inflation Reduction Act. How Do They Turn This Opportunity Into Results?

Some local governments are much more prepared than others to apply for money and programs under the landmark federal law.

By Dan Gearino

The Milwaukee skyline with Lake Michigan in the background is seen at night on Jan. 6, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images
Workers install solar panels on the roof of an apartment complex in Colorado. Credit: Marty Caivano/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

Two States Are Ramping Up Clean Energy Incentives. That Was the Inflation Reduction Act’s Point

By Kristoffer Tigue

An ENGIE employee walks past solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act

By Dan Gearino

In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle

An array of electricity producing wind turbines are viewed along Interstate 10 on May 11, 2022 near Palm Springs, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

Al Gore speaks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17, 2023. Credit: World Economic Forum/ Greg Beadle

Al Gore Talks Climate Progress, Setbacks and the First Rule of Holes: Stop Digging

By Dan Gearino

The Fairbault Community Solar project, located just east of Faribault, Minnesota. Credit: Cooperative Energy Futures

Community Solar Is About to Get a Surge in Federal Funding. So What Is Community Solar?

By Dan Gearino

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is seen after the Senate Luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

What Is Permitting Reform? Here’s a Primer on the Drive to Fast Track Energy Projects—Both Clean and Fossil Fuel

By Dan Gearino, Kristoffer Tigue

EPA Administrator Michael Regan arrives to an event on new national clean air standards for heavy-duty trucks near the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on Dec. 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023

By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis

Pipes with flow directions for operation with hydrogen can be seen on an engine for gas and hydrogen operation at Hansewerk's cogeneration plant in Hamburg-Othmarschen. Credit: Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images

Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water

By Dylan Baddour

Deepwater Wind installing the first offshore wind farm at Block Island, Rhode Island on Aug. 14, 2016. Credit: Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Four Big Things to Expect in Clean Energy in 2023

By Dan Gearino

A large array of solar panels, located one hour north of Los Angeles in Kern County, is viewed on Nov. 15, 2022, near Mojave, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022

By Dan Gearino

Lou Ann Varley looks out across the pond that holds water for the cooling towers at the Jim Bridger coal plant, where she worked for 37 years before retiring in 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) speaks at a House Republican news conference on energy policy at the U.S. Capitol on March 8, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Weak GOP Performance in Midterms Blunts Possible Attacks on Biden Climate Agenda, Observers Say

By Marianne Lavelle

ExxonMobil's Baytown Olefins Plant is part of a larger refinery complex, where the company has proposed building a hydrogen plant with carbon capture equipment. Exxon has said the project could cut greenhouse gas emissions at the refinery complex by "up to 30 percent." Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil Companies Are Eying Federal Climate Funds to Expand Hydrogen Production. Will Their Projects Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at Our Next Energy's ribbon cutting ceremony in Novi, Michigan. Photo Courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor of Michigan

The EV Battery Boom Is Here, With Manufacturers Investing Billions in Midwest Factories

By Dan Gearino

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a smartphone with the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 logo in the background. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 event will take place Nov. 6 through 18, 2022, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The US May Have Scored a Climate Victory in Congress, but It Will Be in the Hot Seat With Other Major Emitters at UN Climate Talks

By Marianne Lavelle

A jumble of electricity producing wind turbines are viewed along Interstate 10 on May 9, 2022 in Palm Springs, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Once Cheap, Wind and Solar Prices Are Up 34%. What’s the Outlook?

By Dan Gearino

The Colorado River flows through fields of crops in Southern California. New water conservation plans from the Bureau of Reclamation could use money from the Inflation Reduction act to pay farmers and ranchers to temporarily pause some water use, an effort to boost levels in the nation's largest reservoirs. Credit: Ted Wood/The Water Desk

Feds Will Spend Billions to Boost Drought-Stricken Colorado River System

By Alex Hager, KUNC

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