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Thanks to the coronavirus, we are rapidly heading toward a recession. Lawmakers are scrambling for ways to keep the economy aloft — distributing relief payments, bolstering unemployment, bailing out out hard-hit industries. But these
The advantages of wind power are well-known. Wind is clean, plentiful and renewable. Installing turbines in large numbers could help wean our carbon-intensive civilization from its addiction to fossil fuels. New research
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recently falsely claimed that wind turbines kill 750,000 birds each year. In actuality, wind turbines kill a little more than 350,000 birds annually — which is far fewer
The semester kicked off with a one-question pop quiz — hot or not? Psychologists at the University of Texas asked students in a small class to rate the desirability of their peers. At the
This is the last of five installments in a series about clean energy. Disruptive technologies may face terrific backlash, but eventually low cost and convenience prevail. Computers replaced typewriters. Cassettes replaced records.
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This is the fourth of five installments in a series about clean energy. Brian Champney can brag about his 450 acres of farmland, 250 dairy cows and — if the permits go through — exactly one
This is the second of five installments in a series about clean energy. There’s the Wyoming you see on postcards — the snow-dusted mountains and caramel-colored prairies where movie stars build their second homes.
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This is the first of five installments in a series about clean energy. In the spring of 2009, Mark Parkinson, then governor of Kansas, was considering a request from Sunflower Electric to
Despite opposition from dozens of CEOs, the majority of the Americans and nearly every country on Earth, President Trump announced last week that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate
On May 1st, the Block Island Power Company officially silenced its diesel generating plant. It now draws cheap, clean power from the nation’s first offshore wind farm. That project was assembled by
Perhaps to the consternation of President Trump, interest in the U.S. offshore wind industry shows no signs of slowing. Earlier this week two companies submitted bids to develop a wind project off
For the wind power watchers out there, it’s been a week chock full of good news. Wind is now the largest renewable energy resource in the United States, as measured by installed
Donald Trump dislikes a lot of things for many reasons. One of those things is wind power. “I have a problem with wind,” the president-elect recently told the New York Times. “First
Enthusiasm about the future of clean energy often comes in one of two varieties. Sometimes, the energy transition is nipping at our heels. Other times, it’s already here, transforming the world before
Renewable energy has long been derided a too-expensive, too-puny pet of the liberal elite. This week several stories prove that’s just not the case. In the last eight years, U.S. onshore wind
Here at the Climate Nexus Energy Transition desk, we like superlatives that show the scale of the transition to a low carbon economy. So it was a good week when we heard
Today, we bring you a dispatch from the land down under on how a media campaign against renewable energy crashed and burned. First, some background. For the past few weeks, electricity prices
The Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas just became the new home of the country’s largest rooftop solar installation, a sprawling 26,000-panel array smack dab in the middle of Sin City.