Peter Dykstra and Host Steve Curwood take a peek Beyond the Headlines to look at the New York Power Authority's decision to convert some of their "peaker" plants to clean energy.
Washington’s push to cut greenhouse gas emissions, expand electric vehicles and grow a clean-energy economy faces new hurdles as the Trump administration rolls back federal climate policies — changes state officials warn could slow progress and jeopardize billions in planned investments.
Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways, and when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that pose an ever-increasing risk to human health.
Environmental groups are raising alarms that datacenters run by tech giants like Google and Microsoft could be releasing PFAS “forever chemicals” into air and water, compounding their climate and energy impacts as AI demand surges.
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