Canary Media is turning 5!

Five years ago, we launched Canary Media on a simple premise: that the energy transition, the greatest economic and industrial transformation of our lifetimes, deserved a newsroom entirely dedicated to covering it. We’ve spent every day since reporting on the most central, urgent, complicated, hopeful, and contested stories of the clean energy era.

I’m grateful to our team for their standout work, and to the readers and supporters who’ve helped this organization thrive. In the current media landscape, that’s not a given. We’ve watched climate news desks and climate reporting jobs succumb to market forces, outmoded business models, and outright cowardice — precisely when the clean energy story has grown larger, faster-moving, and more consequential. The gap between what the public needs to understand and what most newsrooms can explain keeps widening.

We’re dedicated to filling that gap, but we need your support to keep doing it. Can you make a donation to power our nonprofit newsroom through 2026 and beyond?

Reporting that matters

Since we launched in 2021, the energy transition has accelerated at breakneck speed — and run up against some serious hurdles. We’ve covered the biggest U.S. storylines in depth, including: 

• The Inflation Reduction Act and the clean energy boom it unleashed. And then …

• The Trump administration’s assault on clean energy, including IRA rollbacks and much more.

• Renewables’ continuing deployment, despite a hostile federal government.

• The AI-driven explosion of data-center electricity demand, and how it’s straining the grid and climate goals. 

• Clean energy as an affordability strategy, at a time when Americans are increasingly stressed about climbing electricity bills.

An audience that takes action

Our journalism is widely used out in the world. Our newsletters land in the inboxes of U.S. Senate and House staff, state and local lawmakers, federal and state agency personnel, business leaders, investors, and other decision-makers. We’ve been cited in congressional reports, federal rulemaking, state utility proceedings, and Supreme Court briefs. The New York Times, Bloomberg, Politico, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and scores of other national and local outlets cite our work. Clean energy advocates use our reporting to push solutions forward in their communities. And readers turn to us to find out how to electrify their homes and lives.

What’s next

I’m committed to keeping the reporting coming and keeping it free. No paywalls. There are stories we want to dig into across solar, geothermal, nuclear, clean heat, data center demand, and the grid buildout that will define the next decade’s energy landscape. That work takes resources.

If you believe in what we’re building, please support us at whatever level is right for you. Every dollar helps us report more, reach bigger audiences, and keep this journalism free for everyone.

And if a financial contribution isn’t in the cards, do what you already do — read our work, share it with friends and colleagues, and send it to the policymakers who need it most.

Thank you for being here. We’re just getting started.