Climate crisis

Climate crisis

Colorado’s compromise climate bill demands emissions cuts for electricity, industry and oil and gas

Buildings and vehicles won’t have strict emissions caps, but separate bills will help target those key sectors.

By Jeff St. John . 14 June 2021
Climate crisis

Inside the industry-enviro partnership that scored a big climate win on HFCs

The US is now poised to curb use of super-climate-warming refrigerants, one of this century's most significant climate mitigation efforts.

By Jay Stein . 14 June 2021
Solar

Newsletter: Solar power has a wildfire problem

Turns out solar panels are not great at coping with historic wildfires blotting out the sun with smoke.

By Julian Spector . 14 June 2021
Climate crisis

Western wildfires suppressed solar output in 2020

Wildfires exacerbated by climate change darkened the skies above solar projects across the U.S. West last year.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 10 June 2021
Workforce diversity

Charging Up: The latest women's career moves in cleantech

Canary Media is shining a light on women's cleantech career moves and employment issues. This week's coverage includes job moves at Schneider Electric, QuantumScape and the DOE.

By Eric Wesoff . 3 June 2021
Opinion

Top 10 state energy legislative issues of 2021

Bill filings show environmental justice, electric vehicles and energy jobs in transition are on state lawmakers’ minds

By Sarah Steinberg . 2 June 2021
Heat pumps

ESB and GreenCom's heat pump pilot shows promise for balancing the grid

Ireland's government wants to install 600,000 heat pumps by 2030. That could save energy and shift consumption to times of lower grid demand.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 2 June 2021
Guest essay

FERC must fix its broken approach to pipelines

Democrats have the opportunity to reshape the pipeline approval process to account for climate impacts.

By Max Sarinsky, Sarah Ladin . 1 June 2021
Fossil fuels

Activists deal triple blow to oil sector as worries grow over pace of carbon cuts

ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell were all taken to task on the same day by activist groups pushing for stronger action on emissions.

By Jason Deign . 27 May 2021
Policy & regulation

Biden administration takes aim at the financial risks of climate change

The executive order directs federal agencies to identify climate risks and set disclosure rules for private industry and finance.

By Jeff St. John . 21 May 2021