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Decision looms on Duke Energy’s bid to use green tariffs

Under a proposal, Duke Energy customers that voluntarily pay extra for renewable energy wouldn’t be adding new clean resources to the grid.
Solutions

Backup power: A growing need, if you can afford it

Extreme weather linked to climate change is causing more blackouts. But generators and batteries are still out of reach for many.
Opinion

Opinion: Here is what is really strangling the energy transition

Antiquated power lines can’t carry the added electricity from new solar and wind projects.

Duke Energy and its critics battle over its 'clean energy transition'

Energy production is the second largest source of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, both in North Carolina and nationwide — after transportation.

Causes

Duke Energy is leaking a potent climate-warming gas at more than five times the rate of other utilities

The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is one of the most potent and long-lasting climate pollutants—known collectively as “the immortals”—because they remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years.

Newsletter

US Army tests floating solar, US Navy floats climate action

The US Army is stepping up its renewable energy activity with its first ever floating solar array, which could be a model for more to come.

Politics

How a Florida power project flew under the regulatory radar

The state’s biggest utility is building a 176-mile line that may be unsuitable or even unneeded. Its design minimized scrutiny. Critics see a pattern.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

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Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

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Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

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New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs