California regulator to vote on United States' strictest methane rule.
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Let there be light: Germans switch on 'largest artificial sun.'
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‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming.
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A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap...
Northern lights: Large-scale solar power is spreading across the US.
Once largely confined to the sunny Southwest, utility-scale solar power plants are now being built everywhere from Minnesota to Alabama to Maine. Aided by...
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Some large-scale solar power installations concentrate sunlight on a pipe of oil that, once heated, boils water to generate electricity. Others,...
How 5 chief resilience officers are preparing for the next 50 years.
Resiliency is everywhere today. Governments around the world are thinking about how to make their infrastructure adaptable to the stresses and shocks of a changing world....
How L’Oréal is turning itself into a sustainability leader.
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A recently bankrupt coal company is being honored at Mar-a Lago.
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Oil expected in Dakota Access Pipeline this week.
What ongoing legal battles tell us about protections for religious freedoms and government consultation with tribes.
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Chicago startup’s thermal battery is ‘adaptive’ solution to spikes in electricity demand.
A Chicago-based startup is trying to address a major engineering challenge with the electric grid by redesigning one of the most fundamental substances in...
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