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Clean aluminum

Cans to car parts: Inside the complex, crucial world of aluminum recycling

Recycling aluminum involves a vast supply chain, from trash pickers to factories that melt scrap. It’s also crucial to slashing the metal’s carbon emissions.

By Maria Gallucci . 12 September 2024
Clean energy

How $7.3B will help rural co-ops build clean power—and close coal plants

This Inflation Reduction Act program is offering 16 rural electric co-ops financing to overcome the up-front costs of shifting from dirty coal to clean power.

By Jeff St. John . 12 September 2024
Clean energy

Virginia’s bold plan to turn old coal mines into clean data centers

Data Center Ridge is the first phase in a state-endorsed plan to advance test sites for solar, wind, pumped hydro, small nuclear, and other clean energy innovations.

By Elizabeth McGowan . 13 September 2024
Clean energy

Chart: Texas plans to build the most clean energy of any state

The state has more wind and large-scale solar than any other, and batteries are booming. The growth is set to continue — but its grid is still far from clean.

By Dan McCarthy . 13 September 2024
Clean energy

Exowatt aims to repurpose old tech to deal with new AI power demand

The startup has an ambitious goal of providing cheap, around-the-clock clean power to data centers. Exowatt's plan? String together a bunch of old energy technologies.

By Eric Wesoff . 17 September 2024
Carbon-free buildings

California’s new rules will boost heat pumps in commercial buildings

The new building code adopted by the California Energy Commission will also promote heat pumps in new homes — but it falls short on existing ones, advocates say.

By Alison F. Takemura . 20 September 2024
Clean energy

Two years in, US clean energy manufacturing boom is still going strong

The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred more than $115B in clean energy manufacturing investment so far — and the project announcements just keep coming.

By Keaton Peters . 23 September 2024
Green steel

Big steel buyers make a request for 1M tons of green steel

At Climate Week NYC, tech giants and real estate firms announced a new initiative asking steelmakers to deliver near-zero-emissions metal.

By Maria Gallucci . 24 September 2024
Hydrogen

The big unsettled policy question about clean hydrogen: How to use it

Energy experts say U.S. policy must direct money to industries that really need clean hydrogen — and away from those that are better off using clean electricity.

By Jeff St. John . 26 September 2024
Clean energy manufacturing

Michigan bets on EVs to revive its economy — and hopes jobs will follow

The swing state's Democratic leaders want to channel historic manufacturing prowess toward clean energy. Success will hinge on the November election.

By Julian Spector . 2 October 2024