As Kansas City updates climate plan, stakeholders push for inclusion and accountability
After a delayed start, a process to update the city’s largely ignored 2008 climate action plan is underway. Stakeholders hope the revision will be more...
How decades of neglect left Detroit’s grid vulnerable to powerful storms
Don’t blame trees — blame the lack of tree trimming around power lines for the region’s growing outage problems, critics say. How decades of neglect...
Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs
Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it...
Minnesota’s Iron Range may soon be home to one of the largest solar panel manufacturing facilities in the country
Solar panel manufacturer Heliene, which currently employs about 75 people at its Mountain Iron facility, is planning a $21 million expansion, with state and local...
How workers at Colorado Springs’ shuttered power plant are transitioning to new careers
Chris Cox worked at the Martin Drake Power Plant for 10 years. He’s among 80 people finding new jobs as power companies switch to cleaner...
Minnesota utility co-op sees big battery as piece of grid reliability puzzle
Great River Energy, a distribution and transmission cooperative, has partnered with a Massachusetts startup on a long-duration energy storage pilot project that it hopes will...
Ohio bills call for a ‘radioactive subsidy’ for one company’s oil and gas byproduct, critics say
A proposal in the General Assembly would exempt one company’s product from rules on using oil and gas wastewater for de-icing or dust suppression. Even...
Iowa experiment tests potential to pair solar with carbon sequestration
An environmental consultant tasked with creating a business model to monetize carbon capture on solar sites will study the ability of different plant mixes to...