The US is pulling back on energy efficiency just as prices are rising
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is dismantling a wide array of federal energy-efficiency programs at the same time that war in Iran is raising…
As electric bills rise, Trump says tech companies should pay more
In a nod to voter frustration over rising electricity prices, President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was negotiating pledges from major tech companies to pay a greater share of the energy costs associated with new data centers.
US wind power faces challenges after Trump orders a crackdown
President Donald Trump launched a broad attack on the wind power industry in the United States, with a sweeping executive order that could block not just new offshore wind farms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but potentially many smaller wind farms on federal land and even on private property across the country.
Robots are coming, and they’re on a mission: Install solar panels
The companies racing to build large solar farms across the United States are facing a growing problem: not enough workers.
Carbon offsets, a much-criticized climate tool, get federal guidelines
The Biden administration on Tuesday laid out for the first time a set of broad government guidelines around the use of carbon offsets in an attempt to shore up confidence in a method for tackling global warming that has faced growing criticism.
Environmentalists and dam operators, at war for years, start making peace
The industry that operates America's hydroelectric dams and several environmental groups announced an unusual agreement Tuesday to work together to get more clean energy from hydropower while reducing the environmental harm from dams, in a sign that the threat of climate change is spurring both sides to rethink their decadeslong battle over a large but contentious source of renewable power.
