Clean industry
Green steel startup Boston Metal raises $120M for its fossil-free tech
The MIT spinout said its latest funding round, led by steel giant ArcelorMittal, will allow the company to build its first full-scale green steel plant.
Maria Gallucci is a clean energy reporter at Canary Media, where she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the energy transition more affordable and equitable. She was most recently a contributing writer for Grist and IEEE Spectrum, and was previously a staff reporter for InsideClimate News, Mashable, and Mexico City newspapers. Her reporting has taken her across the Americas and inside cargo ships, power plants, and nuclear waste facilities. She was the 2017-2018 Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a 2021 TED speaker. Maria graduated from Ohio University and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Air travel
A giant solar microgrid is coming to New York City’s JFK airport
Some 13,000 solar panels will cover a new terminal being built at JFK, giving the airport a clean power supply that can keep operations running even in a blackout.
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Air travel
Hydrogen-powered aviation reaches milestone with ZeroAvia's flight
The California startup's 19-seat hydrogen-electric prototype plane successfully completed a short test flight as efforts to curb air-travel emissions scale up.
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Air travel
The smelly, greasy truth about how sustainable aviation fuel is made
Join our reporter as she tags along with a truck driver dumpster-diving for used cooking oil — all in the name of curbing aircraft emissions.
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Wind
US offshore wind industry to hit major milestones in 2023
After years of delays, the fledgling offshore wind industry finally made headway in 2022. Here's a rundown of the sector's busy year and a preview of what lies ahead.
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Fossil fuels
As LNG exports soar, a Florida community fights a proposed terminal
A historically Black neighborhood in Port St. Joe, Florida wants to revitalize its streets — and a potential LNG export terminal does not fit the plan.
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Marine transport
Watch this cargo ship fly a giant kite to save fuel and cut emissions
Tweaking a centuries-old concept, French startup Airseas is one of many companies now harnessing the wind to clean up the global shipping industry.
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Transmission
A giant clean-energy transmission line to New York City is now underway
Construction has begun on the 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express, which will deliver Canadian hydropower to NYC as the city retires fossil fuel plants.
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Air travel
United plans to electrify airport operations with sodium-ion batteries
United Airlines is making a strategic equity investment in sodium-ion battery maker Natron Energy as the aviation industry works to curb emissions.
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Marine transport
How to clean up the dirty ports that handle our Black Friday junk
A new initiative gives report cards to the world’s top ports to show how they’re leading, or falling short, on efforts to decarbonize cargo shipping.
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