As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar.
Solutions
A settlement deal would commit the North Carolina utility to working with Google on a scheme that lets data centers pay to secure 24/7 clean energy.
Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is potentially staggering.
A new bill would reinstate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act and provide assistance for consumer electricity costs.
One bill the committee approved allows county commissions to regulate solar farms while another stops new solar farm construction for a year.
Despite the Virginia Clean Economy Act's path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2025, utilities are importing more fossil fuel electricity from other states.
Cities are quietly becoming raw‑material hubs as urban miners turn rubble into a carbon‑saving construction supply chain.
Most of the wind farms under consideration by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management are no longer in the permitting pipeline.
Investor-owned utilities have been slow to ditch oil and gas. The city of Ann Arbor plans to boost access to renewables through a new dual-service model.
While war in the Middle East sends oil prices soaring and households brace for higher bills, one tiny German village has spent 30 years making itself immune to exactly this kind of shock.
Falling costs and government incentives make solar an attractive option for many, reducing the need for gas.
Upgrading existing wind farms is a climate win hiding in plain sight, according to a new nationwide analysis.
Sodexo UK and Ireland has announced the results of its latest effort to cut foodservice and catering emissions through plant-forward menus.
The war in Iran has exposed the dangers of relying on volatile oil and gas markets, UN climate secretary Simon Stiell says.
Proposed settlements would block wind farms off New York and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The battle over solar on farmland
17 March
Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land, depending on which farmers you ask.
The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete.
New research shows the carbon absorbed by the Everglades is equal to 10 percent of the emissions coming from Florida roadways, but the watershed’s methane emissions complicate the picture.
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