By Marianne Lavelle

Politically Charged: Fourth is a series about how political polarization threatens the EV future. 

By Dan Gearino

While much of the Houston area suffered through heat and electricity failures following Hurricane Beryl last week, Bill Swann never lost power.

By Aman Azhar

A Baltimore coal-fired power plant will be operating past its planned retirement date next year, pumping out pollution, while the cheaper clean energy projects that could help replace it are stuck in a queue to connect to the region’s electric grid.

By Kristoffer Tigue

Scott Walker’s disdain for climate-friendly policies was no secret.

By Dan Gearino

With half of 2024 now on the books, U.S. electric vehicle sales continue to grow, for some manufacturers by leaps and bounds. But the overall pace has slowed compared to last year at this time.

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

In American Samoa, sea level is rising at four times the global average. This increases the Pacific Ocean island’s risk of saltwater intrusion, which can contaminate freshwater supplies, a problem it currently faces. 

By Dan Gearino

The growth of customer-owned solar and batteries can help to reduce wear and tear on the grid and save ratepayers money.

By Jake Bolster

Coal mines are not static. They move. A years-long time lapse of a strip mine would show a crater crawling across the Earth as miners gouge pits hundreds of feet deep to expose coal seams, and then haul dirt excavated from the front of the hole to fill in the back, where the mining’s finished. It’s an efficient way to begin the process of “reclamation,” which companies are required to implement to restore the disturbed land to some semblance of its pre-mining condition.

By Dan Gearino

When a baseball-size hailstone slams into a solar panel at more than 90 mph, the result is not pretty.

By Kristoffer Tigue

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wisconsin’s Saratoga Solar Project appeared to have every box checked when state regulators issued their final approval of the 150-megawatt solar farm last spring.