Wind
Four smart ideas for keeping wind turbine blades out of landfills
As wind energy expands, researchers and manufacturers are developing ways to repurpose and recycle blades that can be as long as airplane wings.
By Maria Gallucci .
Maria Gallucci is a senior reporter at Canary Media, where she covers efforts to electrify transportation, decarbonize heavy industries and develop emerging clean energy technologies like offshore wind, advanced geothermal and carbon dioxide removal.
She was previously a reporter or contributing writer for publications including Grist, IEEE Spectrum, Inside Climate News, Yale Environment 360 and newspapers in Mexico City. Her reporting has taken her across the Americas and inside cargo ships, power plants, concrete factories and grease-gathering trucks. She hails from Ohio and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Solar
Gráfico: La energía solar en Puerto Rico sigue creciendo
La cantidad de capacidad fotovoltaica en techos se ha más que duplicado desde que el huracán María azotó la isla en 2017. -
Solar
Chart: Here's how much rooftop solar is surging in Puerto Rico
The amount of rooftop PV capacity has more than doubled since Hurricane Maria hit the island in 2017. -
Solar
Los puertorriqueños están impulsando el auge de energía solar en la isla
Los residentes y propietarios han instalado miles de sistemas de paneles solares y baterías después del huracán María. ¿Se unirá el gobierno al esfuerzo?By Maria Gallucci .
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Solar
Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom
Residents and shop owners are installing solar-plus-battery systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Will the government get on board?By Maria Gallucci .
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Carbon-free buildings
Washington state moves to electrify new buildings by requiring heat pumps
New commercial buildings in Washington will have to conform to what are now the country’s strongest electrification standards for the sector.By Maria Gallucci .
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Electric vehicles
Lawsuits seek to stop Postal Service from buying gas-guzzling trucks
Environmental groups and state attorneys general have sued to block the U.S. Postal Service from spending billions on new gas-powered delivery vehicles.By Maria Gallucci .
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Transportation
The hottest electric vehicles at New York’s auto show have two wheels
Buzzy e-bikes and scooters boost micromobility's profile at an expo that used to be all about sports cars and SUVs.By Maria Gallucci .
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Carbon capture
Carbon storage gets dirty: The movement to sequester CO2 in soils
U.N. climate report promotes soil as a tool to reduce emissions, but scientists are still figuring out how it works.By Maria Gallucci .
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Marine transport
Maritime industry leaders confront climate change and supply-chain issues at shipping expo
A sea change is underway as global shipping players adjust to the new normal of a rapidly warming planet.By Maria Gallucci .
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