renewable energy

The U.K.’s best selling car in December 2020 was the Tesla Model 3.

The Covid relief bill passed by Congress would cut use of a potent planet-warming chemical and funnel billions of dollars into clean energy.

Apple, Samsung and others have to do more to fix this problem of e-waste, and consumers need to be more responsible when buying and discarding their devices.

The way we heat our homes could be on the cusp of a significant shift as technology develops.

The launch comes a few weeks after the U.K. said it would stop selling new diesel and gasoline cars and vans from 2030.

The blades from onshore turbines will be shredded at a facility in Missouri.

According to Alok Sharma, the U.K.’s business and energy secretary, the new target reflects both the urgency and scale of the challenge facing our planet.

Executed through direct investing platforms, impact investing addresses problems such as alleviating poverty in certain communities or reducing pollution.

Sustainable Energy looks at the role forests play when it comes to protecting our planet.

Sustainable Energy looks at the role forests play when it comes to protecting our planet.

Sustainable Energy looks at the role forests play when it comes to protecting our planet.

Floridians will no longer be the only ones soaking in the sun at Bayfront Park, as FPL announced a brand new solar installation in the area’s amphitheater. In a press release, the company says the project will include over 500 solar panels and is expected to generate enough power (250 kilowatts) to be used during the amphitheater’s concert season. Panels…

Pennsylvania now lags well behind many other states when it comes to renewable energy investment and output. A farmer and an entrepreneur say farmland can reshape the state’s energy economy.

The Trump administration accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country’s coal-fired power plants Monday, proposing to weaken two Obama-era rules aimed at cleaning up dangerous heavy metals and ash from coal plants and keeping them from washing into groundwater and waterways. The new proposals — the latest in a series of regulatory breaks granted by the administration...

Is stealing a presidential portrait a prison-worthy crime? Or a laudable act of civil disobedience? Courts around France are grappling with this question in response to an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to fight climate change. One by one, environmental activists around France have removed Macron’s official portraits from more...

Companies across the world are moving quickly to bring to the market hamburgers and other meat products that are grown from animal cells in a lab. This month, Israeli-based company Future Meat Technologies raised $14 million to build a production plant for its cultured meat products, joining several dozen other start-ups poised to launch their first commercial products within the...

Mine owner Blackjewel LLC filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 1 was a big hit to the region straddling northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, where coal has quietly supported the economies of both states for decades and fuels a shrinking number of power plants in 28 states. Negotiations that could reopen the two Wyoming mines under new ownership...

President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the administration has rolled back regulations to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power and industrial plants and pushed...

When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests: technology and ethics. Two years later, she found herself facing a moral dilemma. Clarifai was developing aerial photography and object detection tools as one of several companies working on...