Business & Finance

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?

By Anika Jane Beamer

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

By Charles Paullin

EV Sales Are in the Tank. So What Happens Next?

By Dan Gearino

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

By Dennis Pillion

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation

By Ryan Krugman

County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid

By Charles Paullin

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion

Australian Company BHP Found Liable for Damages in One of Brazil’s Worst Mining Disasters

By Blanca Begert

International Energy Report Projects a Slower Transition to Renewables, but Oil Could Still Peak This Decade

By Blanca Begert

An Oil Company Running Into Rough Waters off the California Coast Is Looking to Trump for Help

By Blanca Begert

As the Government Abandons Clean Energy, Green Steelmaking Advocates Look for Other Paths Forward

By Kiley Bense

One Year After Trump’s Election, This Group Is Celebrating Their Sway Over U.S. Energy Policy

By Aidan Hughes

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out

By Lauren Dalban

Trump Names More Priority Minerals for U.S. Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

When the Power Grid Needs Relief from High Demand, Here’s Who You Call

By Dan Gearino

Trucks Move the Country’s Goods Through This County. As Even More Loom, People Are Pushing Back.

By Siri Chilukuri

Why Are Rates Rising Faster at Investor-Owned Utilities Than at Public Utilities?

By Blanca Begert

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. The Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

By Lisa Song, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica