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Employees of the Goldbecksolar company stand in a solar park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020

By Dan Gearino

Xcel Energy is proposing to stop burning coal at the Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, Minnesota, and build a natural gas power plant on the site. Credit: Tony Webster

How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

Threaded drilling pipes are stacked at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers

The San Fransisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban natural gas in new buildings, meaning that stoves, furnaces and water heaters will no longer burn gas. Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

San Francisco Becomes the Latest City to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings, Citing Climate Effects

By Kristoffer Tigue

There are over 1,100 producing oil wells in the McKittrick oil field north of McKittrick, California. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty

Biden Could Reduce the Nation’s Production of Oil and Gas, but Probably Not as Much as Many Hope

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside Clean Energy: An Energy Snapshot in 5 Charts

By Dan Gearino

Power Plant. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

Cross-State Air Pollution Causes Significant Premature Deaths in the U.S.

By Neela Banerjee

Nathan Phillips. Credit: Phil McKenna/InsideClimate News

Crossing the Line: A Scientist’s Road From Neutrality to Activism

By Phil McKenna

Protesters in Brooklyn, New York, hold a banner saying no pipeline during a demonstration against a natural gas pipeline proposed by the utility National Grid. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Seven-Mile Gas Pipeline Outside Albany Has Activists up in Arms

By Kristoffer Tigue

Shipping containers on a ship.  Credit: International Maritime Organization

Shipping Lines Turn to LNG-Powered Vessels, But They’re Worse for the Climate

By Phil McKenna

Methane flare. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is Natural Gas Really Helping the U.S. Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Nipsco Power Station in Michigan City, Indiana. Credit: Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Indiana Bill Would Make it Harder to Close Coal Plants

By Dan Gearino

Sign advertising a 'Stop the War On Coal' rally in Franklin, Pa.

Obama's War on Coal: True or False?

By Jason Plautz

Speaker Sheldon Silver

NY Assembly Halts Fracking Permits

By Dan Wiessner, Reuters

Barn in Montrose Susquehanna County, Pa.

Some Pa. Landowners Move Out, as Gas Rigs Move In

Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

Tower for horizontal drilling

The Footprint of a Natural Gas Boom, by the Numbers

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

Fracking Transforming Pennsylvania's Lands

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

Natural Gas Spells Trouble for Coal

by Kevin Murphy

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