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Texas finalizes $1.8B to build solar, battery, and gas-powered microgrids
The state Legislature finally passed a proposal to fund backup power for critical facilities like nursing homes and fire stations.
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![EPA administrator Lee Zeldin stands at podium with flags behind him]()
Trump’s EPA accidentally made the case against passing the Big Beautiful Bill
GOP leaders claim that repealing power plant pollution rules and tax breaks for renewables will fuel an energy boom. Experts say they’re doing just the opposite.
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Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land
The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.
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This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. Then came Trump’s funding cuts.
Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power.
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How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
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Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
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Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining
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As Trump comes after research, Forest Service scientists keep working
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There’s only one statewide ballot this year in Georgia — and it’s important
A guide to the candidates who want to set future energy policy.
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Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born
"What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one."
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‘For anybody who could use a break’: A Q&A with sci-fi author Becky Chambers
What climate lessons can we learn from a pair of cozy solarpunk novellas?
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![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
When the Trump administration moved to shut mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung disease, miners demanded it reverse course. It quietly did.
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In California, a biomass company’s expansion raises fears of more fires
Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?
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![A person wearing a helmet with a face shield, a yellow vest, and gloves places a large, metallic, rectangular prism on an assembly line]()
Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers
The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it.
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![a man crouches on a rock in front of pieces of a glacier, which are drifting out to sea]()
When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.
New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought.
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Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas
Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar. Now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on-site.
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