A coalition of solar entrepreneurs and VCs mounted a pugilistic “Revenge Tour” to show candidates eager to hobble their industry that they’ll fight back. So far, it’s working.
Politics
Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing.
Like in all previous COPs it proved difficult to achieve unanimity over a legally binding all-encompassing documents, especially at the time when the big powers question the mere principle of multilateralism.
Candidates in both parties turn on the industry while a bill redefining coal and gas as “clean” energy moves quietly in the statehouse.
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of the president's major donors.

Rooftop solar is having a rough one
28 August
New tariffs and expired tax credits have put a dent in U.S. panel sales; but there’s reason for optimism.
The ENSO Blog tracked all things El Niño and La Niña, offering newly available data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the public in digestible language.
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland, New Jersey — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators.
Billionaire-backed space companies like Blue Origin say their goal is to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.
Unless Governor Newsom blocks the bill, it will legalize plug-in solar in one of the world’s biggest economies.
The first large site for testing wave energy technologies in the continental U.S. is open, after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration.
Trump canceled a $15M EPA grant for Tampa’s University Area, halting pollution, flood-control, and community projects.

The great American road trip is in peril
27 August
My family set out to see the beauty of America’s national parks. Along the way, we saw how wildfire, flood, heat, and drought are changing them.
A new study finds that burying logging debris, instead of burning it, could store far more carbon and generate billions in revenue for forest-thinning projects.
France is temporarily relaxing strict production rules for several iconic cheeses as drought and record heat leave pastures severely depleted.
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project.
WyoFile joined a coalition of nonprofit newsrooms in six Western states to examine how the changes are impacting our ability to fight fires amid increasingly destructive conditions.
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