
Fossil fuels
Bay Area officials vote to ditch new gas furnaces and water heaters
Starting in 2027, San Francisco Bay Area regulators will require appliances to have zero emissions of nitrogen oxides, a move that effectively bans gas.
Clean energy
Fossil fuels
Starting in 2027, San Francisco Bay Area regulators will require appliances to have zero emissions of nitrogen oxides, a move that effectively bans gas.
Fossil fuels
Amid the gas-stove hubbub, the health impacts of other gas appliances like furnaces, water heaters and dryers haven't gotten much attention. Here's a rundown.
Clean energy
Solar, wind, nuclear and grid batteries will account for nearly all power plant construction, with batteries beating gas for the first time.
Podcast
Supermajors are doubling down on extraction and slowing investments in renewables. We try to make sense of the market shift.
Podcast
Only one coal plant in America is cheaper than new renewables. So why haven’t we ditched coal yet?
27 min .
Guest Essay
Air-quality expert Brady Seals sums up decades of research and dispels some persistent myths.
Podcast
A half-century of research on gas stoves shows they are equivalent to living in a house with secondhand smoke.
27 min .
Geothermal
Several utilities in the Northeast already have pilots underway to explore a switch to networked geothermal. Will it help them ride out the energy transition?
Liquefied natural gas
The gas industry aims to dramatically expand capacity for exporting liquefied natural gas. That would be very bad news for the climate.
Fossil fuels
Almost every coal-fired power plant in the country could be cost-effectively replaced by local solar or wind and batteries, according to a groundbreaking new analysis.
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