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A view of wind turbines at Grand Ridge Energy Center in LaSalle County, Illinois. Wind energy is the leading source of renewable energy in Illinois. Credit: Invenergy

Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy?

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

The Silver Peak mine in Clayton Valley, Nev. is the only active lithium mine in the U.S. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Lithium Companies Fight Over Water in the Arid Great Basin

By Daniel Rothberg

Operators peer into the reactor pool where Texas A&M University’s Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA) nuclear research reactor emits a blue glow on March 11, 2024 in College Station. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Small Nuclear Reactors May Be Coming to Texas, Boosted by Interest From Gov. Abbott

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

A view of the Lukachukai Mountains from the Cove Chapter house in Arizona on March 15. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

This Month’s Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation’s Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up

By Noel Lyn Smith

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's proposal would replace the state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images

Pennsylvania’s Governor Wants to Cut Power Plant Emissions With His Own Cap-and-Invest Program

By Jon Hurdle

The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, was joined by several other activists in a coordinated effort to force Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to hear their questions at a public meeting on Monday. Credit: Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, Shouts Down Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro Over a Proposed ‘Hydrogen Hub’

By Kiley Bense

Entrances to a uranium mine are locked shut outside Ticaboo, Utah. Credit: Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose

By Noel Lyn Smith

Engineers conduct experimental studies on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) at CEA Cadarache in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France on Nov. 23, 2023. Credit: Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia Utilities Seek Unbridled Rate Adjustments for Unproven Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in Two New Bills

By Jake Bolster

Signs warning of health risks are posted outside the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in the community of Red Water Pond Road, N.M. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Online Dashboard Identifies Threats Posed by Uranium Mines and Mills in New Mexico

By Noel Lyn Smith

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Wind electric power generation turbines generate electricity outside Medicine Bow, Wyoming in August 2022. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/ AFP via Getty Images.

Wyoming Could Gain the Most from Federal Climate Funding, But Obstacles Are Many

By Marianne Lavelle

Power lines come off of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island, with the operational plant run by Exelon Generation on the right, in Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2019. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Amid Glimmers of Bipartisan Interest, Advocates Press Congress to Add Nuclear Power to the Climate Equation

By Emma Ricketts

Kathryn Huff on a tour of Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Credit: PNNL

Meet the Millennial Scientist Leading the Biden Administration’s Push for a Nuclear Power Revival

By Dan Gearino

Assorted Lego pieces on display at a 'Dream Toys' event on Nov. 14, 2018 in London, England. Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

What Lego—Yes, Lego—Can Teach Us About Avoiding Energy Project Boondoggles

By Dan Gearino

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

In Chernobyl, a Ukrainian technician in 1998 checked a spot with a Geiger counter in the forest outside the damaged nuclear plant, which burned in a wildfire in 1992, six year after the worst nuclear accident in history. The fire burned 667 acres. As a consequence, the radioactive fallout was released in smoke aerosols and transported various distances while radioactive ashes remained on the site. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Getty Images.

Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has Sparked in Ukraine

By Michael Kodas

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle property is seen in November 2021. Photo Courtesy of Georgia Power

In Georgia, Bloated Costs Take Over a Nuclear Power Plant and a Fight Looms Over Who Pays

By James Bruggers

National Ignition Facility Site Manager Vaughn Draggoo walks the length of one the laser bays inside the facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab on Thursday, May 4, 2000. Credit: Jim Ketsdever/MediaNews Group/Contra Costa Times via Getty Images

Nuclear Fusion: Why the Race to Harness the Power of the Sun Just Sped Up

By Tom Wilson in Oxford and Ian Bott in London, Financial Times

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