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Solar panels. Credit: Kerry Sheridan/AFP/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Michigan Utility Just Raised the Bar on Emissions-Cutting Plans

By Dan Gearino

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

Amy Klobuchar. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Amy Klobuchar on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands

By Dan Gearino

Unfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest

Unfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest

By Dan Gearino

Midwest flooding in the spring of 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt

By Dan Gearino

DTE's Monroe Power Plant. Ken Lund/CC-BY-SA-2.0

Utilities Are Promising Net Zero Carbon Emissions, But Don't Expect Big Changes Soon

By Dan Gearino

Perry Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: FirstEnergy/CC-BY-ND-2.0

Ohio Governor Signs Nuclear and Coal Bailout at Expense of Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Algae blooms in Lake Erie in 2011. Credit: NASA

Algae Blooms Fed by Farm Flooding Add to Midwest's Climate Woes

By Georgina Gustin

One possibility being explored in several states is to develop rates based on the value of rooftop solar power to the grid, including environmental benefits. Credit: Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

As Rooftop Solar Grows, What Should the Future of Net Metering Look Like?

By Dan Gearino

Enbridge offices in Edmonton, Canada. Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images

2 Key U.S. Pipelines for Canadian Tar Sands Oil Run Into Trouble in the Midwest

By Phil McKenna

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder. Credit: State of Ohio

Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Adds Coal (while Killing Renewables Rules)

By Dan Gearino

A coal-fired power plant in Romeoville, Illinois, 30 miles outside Chicago, has four unlined ponds holding coal ash waste. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Passes Tougher Rules on Toxic Coal Ash Over Risks to Health & Rivers

Iowa wind power. Credit: Bill Clark/Getty Images

Middle America’s Low-Hanging Carbon: A Collaboration of 14 Midwest Newsrooms

By John H. Cushman Jr.

The Michigan City Generating Station, one of NIPSCO's coal-fired power plants, sits on the shore of Lake Michigan. Credit: Joe Passe/CC-BY-SA-2.0

Replacing Coal with Renewable Energy Will Save This Utility Billions. The Coal Industry Is Fighting It.

By Dan Gearino

Ideal Solar’s owners, Troy and Amy Van Beek, walk among the solar panels at the Maharishi University of Management’s solar array. Credit: Dan Gearino/InsideClimate News

Entrepreneurs Built Iowa’s Solar Economy. A Utility’s Push for Solar Fees Could Shut Them Down.

By Dan Gearino

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

Maintenance workers on a solar farm. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Wind & Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal in Much of the U.S., New Analysis Finds

By Dan Gearino

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, one of Ohio's two nuclear power plants, has a history of safety issues. Credit: Gregory Varnum/CC-BY-SA-3.0

Ohio Weighs a Nuclear Bailout at FirstEnergy's Urging. Will It Boost Renewables, Too?

By Dan Gearino

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