Trump lifts coal leasing moratorium.
President Donald Trump sat surrounded by coal miners Tuesday as he signed an executive order calling for agencies to rescind a review of federal...
Large-scale energy storage is the (virtual) power plant of the future.
Con Ed organized an auction for “demand response capacity” and awarded contracts to a variety of energy storage and efficiency startups. It reasoned that,...
EU leads attacks on Trump's rollback of Obama climate policy.
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Europe poised to take baton from US as leader in global efforts to fight climate change, with America’s commitment to Paris accords at...
Trump's executive order: More fossil fuels, regardless of climate change.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday calling on every federal agency to loosen the regulatory reins on fossil fuel industries, the...
Trump has launched a blitzkrieg in the wars on science and Earth’s climate.
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Climate Consensus - the 97%
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Policy shift helps coal, but other forces may limit effect.
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and DIANE CARDWELLMarch 28, 2017Many fossil fuel executives are celebrating President Trump’s move to dismantle the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. But their cheers are...
Westinghouse files for bankruptcy, in blow to nuclear power.
By DIANE CARDWELL and JONATHAN SOBLEMarch 29, 2017Westinghouse Electric Company, which helped drive the development of nuclear energy and the electric grid itself, filed for bankruptcy protection on...
The Trump administration has a Kafkaesque explanation for why we don’t need regulation to...
The evening before US president Donald Trump signed his executive order to dismantle many of the policies meant to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases...
Fact check: Trump’s misleading words on energy and jobs.
By LINDA QIUMarch 28, 2017WASHINGTON — In his first major move to undo President Barack Obama’s climate change policies, President Trump declared Tuesday the beginning of...
Low-carbon energy boosts human and ecological health.
Stopping climate change isn’t the only reason to switch to renewable sources of energy: Replacing coal and gas electricity generation with solar, wind, hydro,...
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