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Trump’s Drastic Move to Dismantle the Clean Power Plan Won’t Bring Coal Back

On Tuesday, President Trump is expected to begin the process of dismantling Obama’s environmental legacy, including his signature climate action policy, the Clean Power Plan. According to Reuters, Trump will sign an executive order compelling the Environmental Protection Agency to review and rewrite the plan, which calls on states to reduce carbon emissions from power…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

America’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Just Got Approved

It’s been a rough week for environmentalists in America, but buried amidst a torrent of reports detailing the Trump administration’s war on climate science, one uplifting energy story has garnered comparably little attention: the United States may be getting a second offshore wind farm. On Wednesday, the South Fork Wind Farm, a proposed 90-megawatt (MW)…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Climate and Energy Stories We’ll Be Following in 2017

On the climate and energy front, 2016 was a year of contradictions. Again and again, our planet smashed global temperature records. The fingerprints of climate change were visible in extreme weather from the North Pole to Louisiana. But the clean energy sector also hit some major milestones. Wind and solar power expanded rapidly as costs fell,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Satellite Captures a Surprising Impact of Offshore Wind Farms

Offshore wind power is taking off in Europe, but we’re still coming to grips with the environmental impacts of sticking gigantic steel towers in the oceans. One effect of these clean energy behemoths, however, seems indisputable: sediment plumes. Captured by the Operational Land Imager on NASA and the USGS’ Landsat 8 satellite, these striking images…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Battle to Bring Offshore Wind Power to America

The steel towers loom in the distance, like shiny toy soldiers arranged in formation. As our boat approaches, the dizzying size of the machines becomes clear. A few minutes later, I’m standing right next to one, holding the guardrails and craning my head to take it all in. The boat bucks like a rollercoaster as…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Iceland’s Latest Renewable Energy Project Is So Badass

Iceland, land of elves and shark meat delicacies, is proving to be far more inventive than the rest of us when it comes to new energy technologies. Having already tamed its shallow geothermal resources, the chilly island nation is now trying to tap into the power of magma. New Scientist reports on a fascinating new…

Tech News Maddie Stone

How the World Could Actually Cure Its Fossil Fuel Addiction

Last week, the Paris climate agreement cleared its final hurdle, when the European Union formally signed on. With the support of 73 nations accounting for 57 percent of global carbon emissions, the deal enters legal force on November 4th. So what does that mean, and how soon do we kick our addiction to fossil fuels?…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

New Clean Energy Report: America May Not Be Screwed After All

For the past sixteen months or so, it’s felt as though our planet has been shaking us by the shoulders, trying to wake us up to the fact that we’ve kicked the thermostat into overdrive. The good news is, America finally seems to be listening. According to a new report by the Department of Energy,…

Tech News Maddie Stone

North America Is Set to Announce Its Most Ambitious Clean Energy Target Yet

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are poised to announce an ambitious new energy pledge that would see 50 percent of North American electricity drawn from clean sources by 2025. That pledge, which encompasses renewables like wind and solar but also nuclear energy and carbon capture technology, signals a growing consensus about the energy future…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The New NASA X-Plane Will Be Fully Electric

Last year, NASA casually announced its intention to disrupt the aviation industry by sticking fully electric commercial passenger planes in the sky in 20 years. In a small step toward that goal, space agency director Charles Bolden has just announced plans for the X-57, the first all-electric addition to the famous X-plane series. The single-seater…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Real Problem With Fusion Energy

The longstanding joke about fusion—that it’s the energy source of the future, and always will be—may be the field’s biggest problem. The quest to bottle the power of the sun has led to countless starry-eyed predictions of an imminent clean energy revolution. But the expectations for fusion have always been outsized, the trail of broken…

Physics & Chemistry Maddie Stone

Solar Impulse Pilot Feels Awesome After a Full Day of Nonstop Flying

Most human beings would be in a black mood after spending 24 hours awake, strapped to a chair, and concentrating hard so as not to die. Not Bertrand Piccard. Gizmodo caught up the man currently flying the Solar Impulse 2 plane from Hawaii to San Francisco, and he sounded downright chipper. “I feel great,” said…

Tech News Maddie Stone

China’s Wind and Solar Energy Capacity Is Soaring

Smog-filled days may be a part of life in Beijing for now, but China is cutting coal and growing its wind and solar energy capacity fast, according to figures released yesterday by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. Solar power generation capacity was up 74 percent in China last year compared with 2014 levels, while…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

This Energy Goal Could Save the US Over a Trillion Dollars

Last December, world leaders made an unprecedented pact to wean their countries off fossil fuels this century. The oil lobby says such a transition would be an economic death sentence. But a new study paints a sharply different picture: Working toward the Paris goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius could save the…

Health Maddie Stone

Scalia’s Death May Have Saved the Planet

The United States’ commitment to combatting climate change will affect the entire world. Last week, the Supreme Court froze Obama’s plan to uphold that commitment, sparking fears that the Paris climate agreement would fall apart. But the death of justice Antonin Scalia over the weekend changes everything. Scalia might have been surprisingly progressive on technology,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Obama Wants to End Coal Mining on Federal Land

In a symbolic kick in the pants to the coal industry, the Obama administration will announce today that it’s freezing new coal mining leases on public lands, the New York Times reports. It’s the latest in a series of strategic moves by the president to wean America off fossil fuels, something that leaders of 195…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Elon Musk Is Probably Our Best Hope Yet For Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels

As the leaders of 196 countries negotiate a carbon emissions goal for the planet to prevent an environmental apocalypse, the real work will fall to the companies that will need to deliver change to consumers. And no single person is doing as much to help change our energy consumption as one Elon Musk. In a…

Tech News Alissa Walker

China’s New Carbon Pledge Puts the US Clean Power Plan to Shame

In the wake of yet another bout of devastating smog, China announced today that it plans cut its power sector emissions 60% by 2020, a promise that puts the US Clean Power Planto shame. If fulfilled, the pledge would make a major dent in global carbon pollution. China’s cabinet made the announcement at the COP21…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

Earlier this year, the Clean Power Plan pledged to cut US power plant carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2050. A new study says the US can do way better than that: reducing all greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent and running the country entirely on renewable energy by 2050. This most optimistic scenario is…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Washington DC is Turning Our Nation’s Poop into Power

The next time you pay a visit to our nation’s capital, flush the toilet with a little extra pride. Your excrement is now helping contribute to America’s clean energy future. Yep, you heard that right: In September, D.C. Water became the first utility in North America to convert treated sewage sludge to electricity. At its…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Trump’s Drastic Move to Dismantle the Clean Power Plan Won’t Bring Coal Back

America’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Just Got Approved

The Climate and Energy Stories We’ll Be Following in 2017

Satellite Captures a Surprising Impact of Offshore Wind Farms

The Battle to Bring Offshore Wind Power to America

Iceland’s Latest Renewable Energy Project Is So Badass

How the World Could Actually Cure Its Fossil Fuel Addiction

New Clean Energy Report: America May Not Be Screwed After All

North America Is Set to Announce Its Most Ambitious Clean Energy Target Yet

The New NASA X-Plane Will Be Fully Electric

The Real Problem With Fusion Energy

Solar Impulse Pilot Feels Awesome After a Full Day of Nonstop Flying

China’s Wind and Solar Energy Capacity Is Soaring

This Energy Goal Could Save the US Over a Trillion Dollars

Scalia’s Death May Have Saved the Planet

Obama Wants to End Coal Mining on Federal Land

Elon Musk Is Probably Our Best Hope Yet For Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels

China’s New Carbon Pledge Puts the US Clean Power Plan to Shame

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

Washington DC is Turning Our Nation’s Poop into Power

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