A bill in Massachusetts would create a framework for a geothermal utility, with the aim of heating and cooling buildings cleanly and affordably.
Politics
The Republican appropriations bill for the Interior Department proposes per-turbine fees for wind projects, potentially boosting those costs much higher.
A new Trump administration rule will likely cost consumers more money while creating higher emissions of climate-warming superpollutants, industry and environmental groups warn.
Lured by prolific gas reserves and an industry-friendly government, AI companies have flocked to the Lone Star State in droves.
This month, a North Dakota court barred Greenpeace from saying what it wanted in a European court, an unusual move. The environmental group says it is forging ahead.
As Staci Hartwell sees it, her community has much more to lose than to gain from the development of a massive data center.
The so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center could be pumping hundreds of tons of toxic gases into the atmosphere without a permit, Florida environmentalists suing the state claimed in a new court filing.
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
More than a decade after the palm oil industry adopted “No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation” commitments, new satellite data show forest clearing for palm oil in Indonesia persists.
Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.
The United States is in the middle of the largest offshore wind expansion in its history — despite Donald Trump waging what clean energy advocates describe as an all-out war against the sector.
Contenders are near projects that have already been canceled, are still far from construction and are saddled with hefty price tags.
Researchers find that EVs cost no more to own than a comparable gas car almost anywhere in the U.S.
Africa’s energy sector is rapidly shifting toward solar and wind power and battery storage as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams.
Solar and wind produce lots of energy — but not always at the right time. More battery storage could help Europe to stabilize prices and replace polluting fossil fuel energy, but roadblocks remain.
Mounting evidence shows a clean energy project in Washington on a Yakama sacred site would in large part power a data center.
Experts and local activists, wary of past exploitation, are hoping it will be different this time — but aren’t confident it will be.
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