Technology & Innovation
Trump’s EPA Seeks Looser Construction Rules for Gas Plants, Data Centers and Factories
By Charles Paullin
California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon.
By Claire Barber
How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
How We Tracked the Lithium Rush
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
A Massive, Trump-Backed Power Plant May Be Too Big to Succeed
By Dan Gearino
Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity
By Jake Bolster
California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water?
By Steven Rodas
Virginia Legislature Bucks Governor’s Amendments to Dominion-Backed Bill
By Charles Paullin
Duke Energy Received Tax Breaks on Its Three N.C. Data Centers
By Lisa Sorg
How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining
Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
Data Center Tax Exemption Changes Still Holding Up Virginia Budget
By Charles Paullin
Ohio Is Where Wind and Solar Projects Go to Die, and Other Findings From New Research on State Permitting
By Dan Gearino
Maryland Passes Energy Bill That Delivers Short-Term Relief, Locks Ratepayers into Long-Term Nuclear Subsidy
By Aman Azhar
Rising Gas Prices Make the Market Ripe for Electric Vehicles, but US Automakers Can’t Seize the Moment
By Dan Gearino
As Tech Groups Predict Huge Pennsylvania Data-Center Growth, Critics Say Some Bills Would Reduce Local Control
By Jon Hurdle
