Cool Clean Tech

January 25, 2019

Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal...

AI’s Power Demands: Do We Really Have the Energy for This?

April 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence applications have exploded in the last couple of years, and their power demands are equally explosive. The U.S. Department...

How To Dance With China

October 18, 2024

In the last two decades, China has made big commitments to renewable energy — and it’s delivered. In 2022, China installed as much solar...

Cheaper, Faster, Better: Tom Steyer on Winning the Climate War

September 6, 2024

Tom Steyer rose to public prominence as the billionaire investor and climate organizer who ran for president in the 2020 election on a...

Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

April 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. But, as with most technology, there are significant trade...

Geothermal: So Hot Right Now

February 23, 2024

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source is...

Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters

February 9, 2024

A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have...

Rep. Ro Khanna on AI, Misinformation and Holding Big Oil Accountable

October 6, 2023

The U.S. is in the midst of yet another election season, with the presidential primary campaigning well underway. Now that big pieces of...

The Nuclear Option

September 15, 2023

Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. And they ended up...