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Inside a brick building on Chicago’s West Side — once part of a sprawling Sears Roebuck campus — is an adult transitional center, or halfway house, that’s home to 250 men completing sentences for criminal convictions and preparing to reenter society.  Just down the hallway from their living quarters, a high-ceilinged…

Akinlana Abdalla worked for years inside a sprawling Milwaukee factory repairing generators for onshore wind turbines.  Ingeteam , a Spanish manufacturer, opened the plant in 2011 to serve America’s clean energy industries, fixing and producing equipment from its industrial site between the Milwaukee Brewers baseball…

A few years ago, a gas leak from Sherry Frazier's furnace forced her and her daughter out of Frazier’s Baltimore home. “Oh, it was awful,” said Frazier, a retired educator who worked with students with disabilities in Baltimore public schools. “We had bad headaches and were kind of dizzy, wobbly on our feet.” Had…

CHRISTIANA, Tenn. — As sunlight fell between the gaps in flinty November clouds, I found myself impressed by the quietness of the lawn mowers in a Middle Tennessee solar field. Instead of the obnoxious roar of diesel engines, they just produced an occasional moo. Six months ago, Tennessee’s largest solar developer,…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter.  Sign up to get it every Friday. Americans aren’t happy about the data center boom, and they made their displeasure pretty clear this Election Day. Voters not only selected a slate of Democratic candidates who campaigned against data…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Now that solar has become America’s  go-to choice for new power plants , the pressure is on to assemble a fully domestic supply chain for the technology. Data from the latest  Clean Investment Monitor shows that this onshoring process is well underway.…

Democrats' historic wins in Tuesday’s midterm elections will give them control of Congress and a  chance to combat the Trump administration’s anti-climate agenda, but the president’s  veto power will limit their options.  At the state level, however, Democrats’ victories offer immediate opportunities to advance clean…

This is  California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everyone! We’ve got a lot of postelection news to cover this week. But I want to start with another hugely important issue, one that poses an…

The offshore wind farm Revolution Wind is completely up and running — despite the Trump administration’s repeated and ongoing efforts to halt development of the $6.2 billion project. On Thursday, the Danish energy giant Ørsted said its 704-megawatt wind farm near Connecticut and Rhode Island began “generating up to…

Nobody really knows how much power the data center boom will need — and that’s putting utilities in a tough spot. If they underinvest in power plants and the grid, economic growth and energy reliability will suffer. But if they overinvest, Americans may pay for infrastructure nobody needs. One way to blunt these…

The top story from Tuesday’s elections is clear: Democrats won big-time on the national level, dominating U.S. Senate and House races across the country. And on the state level, clean energy could get a jolt from Democratic wins for state offices and utility commissions and new approved ballot measures. Here’s a…

It’s cranberry season in southeastern Massachusetts. At bogs throughout the region, growers are collecting the ruby-red berries destined for holiday cakes, juice bottles, and cans of jellied sauce. At two farms, however, the harvesting process looks a little different: Pickers are navigating equipment around metal…

Can a utility commit to building massive gas plants and still achieve zero carbon emissions?  DTE Electric in southeast Michigan says yes, and it outlines how in a 20-year plan currently being considered by regulators. The key, the utility says, will be carbon capture and sequestration — collecting carbon dioxide…

When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, solar and wind developers celebrated something that had historically been elusive: long-term certainty about federal tax incentives. Companies accustomed to the waxing and waning of political support for the investment tax credit (ITC) and…

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter . Every year, Kotzebue, a small city in northwest Alaska, has a three-month window to receive all the diesel fuel it will use throughout the following year. It sits on a gravel spit that juts into Kotzebue Sound just north of…

Developers and utilities are building tons of gas generation to power the data center boom. It’s an expansion that could cost them and the rest of us dearly, both in terms of climate change and money that may end up wasted if computing demand fails to materialize.  But there’s a cleaner, cheaper, and faster-to-deploy…

Boise already knows how to tap the carbon-free heat beneath our feet. The city operates the country’s largest geothermal heating system, which pipes naturally warmed, 177-degree-Fahrenheit water from underground to about 100 buildings — including the Idaho State Capitol.  Last week, semiconductor multinational Micron…

Tech companies say they're seeking low-carbon construction materials to limit the climate impact of their data centers. But very little clean cement or green steel is actually being produced in the U.S. today, and only in a handful of locations. To tackle that dilemma, Meta recently  struck a deal with  Fortera to…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter.  Sign up to get it every Friday. The midterm elections are upon us. While most of the country has its eyes on who will control Congress, there’s plenty at stake for clean energy at the bottom of some voters’ ballots, too. Here are five…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Donald Trump ran for his second term promising to “make America affordable again.” Two years later, the president’s war with Iran has his constituents paying through the nose for gasoline and diesel. In fact, per-person fuel costs have risen more in the…