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Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

While federal policy fell short of expectations, many states had high ambitions and delivered results.

By Dan Gearino

Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images
he Link River Dam helps hold water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake. Credit: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about climate change and the wildfires on the West Coast at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on Sept. 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’

By Marianne Lavelle

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020.

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

Moms United for Black Lives Matter march during a protest against racial injustice and police brutality on July 31, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

With Tactics Honed on Climate Change, Ken Cuccinelli Turned to the Portland Streets

By Marianne Lavelle

Is Climate Change Urgent Enough to Justify a Crime? A Jury in Portland Was Asked to Decide

By LEE VAN DER VOO

Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon

Could Oregon Democrat Trip Up Anti-EPA Legislation?

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

Fears of Radar Interference Threaten Oregon Wind Farm, but Solutions Exist

By Dave Levitan

Early Closure of Oregon's Only Coal-Fired Power Plant Has National Implications

By Stacy Feldman

Students Lead Charge to Power School with Renewable Energy

By Madeline J. Kovacs

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