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Arizona Solar Tax Credit & Other Incentives Available in 2022
Arizona is a very sunny state thanks to its desert climate, which means that solar panels are very productive when used on homes and businesses. There are also several incentive programs that improve...
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Fossil Fuel Companies Pay $192 Million to Extract Fossil Fuels From the Gulf...
The Biden administration went through with the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history Wednesday.In the controversial sale, major fossil-fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Shell,...
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Build Back Better Act Passes House With Most Ambitious Climate Provisions in...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Build Back Better Act, which includes the largest-ever federal investment in fighting the climate crisis.The $2.2 trillion spending package...
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Boston Mayor Wu Divests City Funds From Fossil Fuels
In her first major policy action, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu signed an ordinance on Monday to divest public funds from fossil fuels. The measure prohibits public investment in any financial instrument...
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How To Talk To Your Family About Renewable Energy: 9 Common Arguments Against...
This holiday season, you may be anticipating spending time with some family members that, let's just say, don't share your concern for the environment. If you find political and generational...
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A Guide to Your Digital Carbon Footprint – and How to Lower It
Humanity's digital presence is growing – and with it, our carbon footprint. In May of 2020, one-third of employed people were conducting their jobs remotely as a result of the coronavirus, up from a...
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The PR Industry Has Been a ‘Major’ But ‘Overlooked’ Influence in Climate...
By Nick CunninghamFrom coining “clean coal” to “carbon footprint,” public relations firms have been instrumental in shaping the public discourse around climate and energy policy, and as a new study...
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Texas Farmers and Ranchers Are Embracing Renewable Energy
Among the things that are bigger in Texas is the number of reasons why farmers and ranchers there are embracing renewable energy, the Financial Times reports. The largest renewable energy producer in...
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How an Arctic City Became One of the World's Most Polluted Places
In Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, but the permafrost and structural problems have not been caused by climate change alone. A...
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Activists Make Last-Minute Bid to Stop Shell From Blasting for Oil in Whale...
Activists have made a last-minute bid to stop Royal Dutch Shell from exploring for oil and gas in whale breeding grounds off the coast of South Africa. The fossil-fuel giant had planned to search for...
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Developers Cancel Oregon Pipeline and LNG Export Terminal
Developers of what would have been the first LNG export terminal on the West Coast officially abandoned the project on Wednesday. The project developers told FERC they are not pursuing construction of...
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Renewables Likely Cost Less Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
As renewable energy technologies scale up, their cost can be hard to estimate. A new report from the University of Oxford’s Institute of New Economic Thinking notes that the cost of renewable energies...
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New Canadian Facility to Produce Renewable Fuel From Air
In British Columbia, Canadian clean energy company Huron Clean Energy and its partner Carbon Engineering Ltd. have plans to create a revolutionary fuel for cars, airplanes and ships. Recently, they’ve...
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Shell Abandons Controversial UK Oilfield Exploration
Climate campaigners are celebrating a “death blow” to a controversial UK oil exploration project after Shell announced it would no longer participate. The fossil-fuel giant was set to explore the...
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Electric Vehicles 101: Everything You Need to Know
If you think electric cars are a new concept, you're not alone. Until recently, EV’s drew interest mainly from a niche group of enthusiasts.Gasoline-powered cars and trucks are usually considered to...
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Biden Administration Is ‘Rubber Stamping’ Oil and Gas Permits on Public Land,...
The Biden administration came under fire last month for overseeing the largest offshore oil and gas leasing sale in U.S. history. Now, a new report suggests this wasn’t an isolated incident. The...
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5 Good Things That Happened for the Planet in 2021
It wasn’t all bad. Here’s some of the good news from this year. Environmental Rights Amendment Passes in New York Markus Spiske / Pexels In November, New Yorkers voted to add 15 words to the Bill of...
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Biden Signs Executive Order for a Carbon-Neutral Federal Government by 2050
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to make the federal government’s operations carbon neutral by 2050. Under the new plan, the government would not purchase any more gas-powered...
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Solar Farms Could Boost Bumblebee Populations, Study Says
A new study finds that installing solar farms could become a two birds, one stone situation, as these areas can also double as thriving pollinator habitats if land owners allow meadows to grow around...
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Philippine Women Use Solar, Organizing to Build Resilience
Women in the Philippines are working together to build resilience to weather disasters like typhoons and organize around other issues including sustainable agriculture and violence against women,...
View ArticleHere's What You Should Know About Carbon Capture and Storage
The recently-passed US infrastructure bill, signed into legislation by President Biden on November 15th, dedicates $8 billion to carbon capture, utilization, and storage, in addition to investments in...
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Lower Fertility Rates May Be Linked to Rising Fossil Fuel Pollution,...
A new study on fertility rates in Denmark finds a possible link between lower fertility rates and rising fossil fuel pollution and industrialization. Although the research identifies this trend in...
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New York City Votes to Electrify New Buildings, Ban Natural Gas
New York City is poised to electrify nearly all new buildings in the coming years after city legislators voted Wednesday for the measure designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other air...
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Coal Baron Joe Manchin Rejects Build Back Better, Potentially Killing It
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who famously shot a literal hole through the 2009 Cap and Trade bill, said Sunday he “could not” vote for the Build Back Better Act, likely dooming the bill in its current...
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Largest U.S. Power Company Is Lobbying Against Rooftop Solar
Florida Power & Light, the largest energy company in the U.S., is pushing for policies that hurt the rooftop solar industry in Florida, an investigation by Floodlight and the Miami Herald found....
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Reversing Trump Rollback, Biden’s EPA Announces Historically Ambitious...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday finalized greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks that it says are the most ambitious ever. The new standards replace lower...
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Coal Workers Urge Manchin to Support Build Back Better
The United Mine Workers of America rallied in support of the Build Back Better Act, calling on Sen. Joe Manchin, who was named an honorary member of the union last year, to reassess his decision to...
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Biden Administration Approves Two New Solar Farms in California Desert
As part of a bid to increase renewable energy capacity on public lands, the Biden administration announced Tuesday that it had approved two new solar farms in the California desert. The Arica and...
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Settlement Reached Over Longest-Running Oil Spill in U.S. History
A Louisiana energy company is finally paying for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history.Taylor Energy has agreed to pay more than $43 million in penalties and transfer a further $432 million to...
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8 Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Resolutions for the New Year
As we welcome in the new year, many are thinking about resolutions – for ourselves, our families, our health, our lifestyle. Now more than ever, it's important to include the planet in our plans. Over...
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