Technology & Innovation

Massachusetts Utilities Hope Hydrogen and Biomethane Can Keep the State Cooking, and Heating, With Gas

State regulators are allowing electric utilities to plan how to decarbonize the power they supply, but environmentalists say the industry is presenting false solutions to lock in natural gas as a fuel source for decades.

By Jon Lamson

Oil Companies Are Eying Federal Climate Funds to Expand Hydrogen Production. Will Their Projects Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Big Federal Grant Aims to Make Baltimore a Laboratory for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

By Aman Azhar

How a New ‘Battery Data Genome’ Project Will Use Vast Amounts of Information to Build Better EVs

By Dan Gearino

At a Global Conference on Clean Energy, Granholm Announces Billions in Federal Aid for Carbon Capture and Emerging Technology

By Katie Surma

Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress

By Nicholas Kusnetz

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Warming Trends: A Comedy With Solar Themes, a Greener Cryptocurrency and the Underestimated Climate Supermajority

By Katelyn Weisbrod

An EV With 600 Miles of Range Is Tantalizingly Close

By Dan Gearino

Warming Trends: Video Gamers Helping the Climate, a Big Advance for Lab-Grown Meat and Belabored Decisions May Bring Better Results, If Not More Happiness

By Katelyn Weisbrod

California Just Banned Gas-Powered Cars. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

By Dan Gearino

Occidental Seeks Texas Property Tax Abatements to Help Finance its Long-Shot Plan for Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Inside Clean Energy: What’s Hotter than Solar Panels? Solar Windows.

By Dan Gearino

A New Project in Rural Oregon Is Letting Farmers Test Drive Electric Tractors in the Name of Science

By Grant Stringer

Warming Trends: Carbon-Neutral Concrete, Climate-Altered Menus and Olympic Skiing in Vanuatu

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Inside Clean Energy: This Virtual Power Plant Is Trying to Tackle a Housing Crisis and an Energy Crisis All at Once

By Dan Gearino

Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

By Phil McKenna

Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production

By Dan Gearino