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Rooftop solar in tumult as Sungevity declares bankruptcy.

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Native communities look toward the next battleground after the Dakota Access pipeline.

The last hundred people camped out for several months in protest of the Dakota Access pipeline’s construction marched out of the campground last month....

Youth activists score big climate victory in small Minnesota town.

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Here's how engineers are trying to hack climate change.

Much of the public hand-wringing over the effects of climate change centers on altering human, political and industrial behavior to reduce carbon emissions. But engineers...

In Kentucky coal country, a potential embrace of nuclear power.

Donald Trump promised to bring back coal jobs, but even the country's third-largest coal producer appears to be hedging its bets on a comeback....

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