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As Michigan continues to examine its options for meeting its 100% clean energy goal, members of the state House gathered to consider a slate of bills to give the state authority over efforts to capture and store carbon emissions.

Workforce programs try to ride out the legal, administrative and economic headwinds of the Trump administration.

While President Donald Trump pushed against cutting emissions and regulating technology, environmentalists called for world leaders to reject conflict and build a stable future with clean energy.

Geothermal companies face tough tradeoffs over water as they aim to power the data center buildout in western states.

Scientists expected their artificial floating wetland to help only after cleaning the water. Instead, greenhouse gas emissions dropped months earlier, and nobody is sure exactly why.

Rhode Island District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy ruled federal administrators broke the law when they canceled a $7 billion solar energy grant program after awards had already been given to recipients nationwide.

Winifred Sylvah picked a handful of plump cucumbers on a cold, wet September morning as raindrops trickled off rows of solar panels in the background.
Showing up at local government hearings to support a proposed wind, solar, or battery project could be the most effective climate action you ever take.
We’re missing an emotional architecture for change: how it feels to want a different future and believe we can reach it, writes Solitaire Townsend.

Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict-of-interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.
The young government of Nepal, a nation with a tiny carbon footprint, is seeking reparations from the world’s major economies as it bears the brunt of collapsing Himalayan glaciers.

The startup hit a milestone last year when it drilled the world’s hottest next-gen geothermal well. Now it’s working to prove its tech can scale commercially.

The prospects for state-level climate and energy legislation could hinge on the outcomes of just a few races.
“These past three months are a warning sign we cannot afford to ignore – the human and economic costs of fossil fuels are playing out in real time.”

Twenty years ago, a group of Northeastern states signed on to a plan to reduce the greenhouse gases spewing from power plants by making generators pay for the carbon they release.

New Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance released last week confirms that gas extracted from livestock manure qualifies for a federal clean fuel tax credit, paving the way for increased investment in biogas projects. 
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