‘Immune to COVID’: Renewables expand as fossil fuels fall
Renewable energy industries have grown during the coronavirus pandemic, in sharp contrast to fossil fuels which have been brutally hit…
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States collaborate to boost offshore wind
Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina will collaborate to build and promote offshore wind energy, the states’ governors announced Thursday. By…
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Global coal demand and carbon emissions likely peaked in 2019, BNEF report finds
Renewable energy and battery storage are expected to draw at least $11 trillion of investment over the next 30 years,…
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‘We can participate in the economy’: The Great Sioux Nation is building a 235-megawatt wind farm
The Great Sioux Nation, whose territory spans what is now North and South Dakota, are planning to build a 235…
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Cost of limiting climate change would only be one-eighth of total already pledged for COVID stimulus
The cost of measures to limit global warming to the 1.5°C envisioned in the Paris Agreement would only amount to…
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Oregon’s last coal plant shuts down for good as wind power progresses in Virginia
Two developments on opposite coasts of the continental U.S. signal the country’s continued transition away from fossil fuels toward clean…
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Solar is ‘the new king of the world’s electricity markets,’ deposing coal, IEA says
The International Energy Agency’s annual report, published Tuesday, included for the first time a model for how the world can…
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Coal continues its unstoppable decline in face of clean energy boost
A bevy of news this week illustrates the degree to which the nationwide transition to clean energy and away from…
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World’s biggest polluter vows to go carbon neutral by 2050
China will “aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060,” President Xi Jinping announced…
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5 years after GE buys a $10Bn coal business, the giant announces plans to say goodbye to the dirty fossil fuel
General Electric will stop building coal-fired power plants as it increases its focus on renewable energy, the company announced Monday.…
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