Wading Into Unchartered Waters, City Launches First-Ever Green Port Initiative
The city is launching a new green port initiative in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that will allow cruise ships to power up from the city's electrical grid when docked.Craig Hammerman, district manager of...
View ArticleA Tainted Well Points to Trouble with Natural Gas Drilling
The oil and gas industry drills natural gas wells with a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. And for decades, both industry executives and regulators have maintained that it’s safe. In...
View ArticleRepublicans Say White House Rushed Solar Loan
A House subcommittee is accusing the Obama administration of aggressively pushing a loan for a now bankrupt solar company, Solyndra. Republicans say the White House rushed the bad loan in spite of...
View ArticleIs Thorium the Key to Green Energy?
Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, contributing editor at Wired and editorial director for Pike Research, looks at thorium as a clean energy source.
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Senate Committee Takes Up More Than a Dozen Bills for Alternative-Fueled...
New Jersey has one of the most ambitious clean energy programs in the nation, but some have criticized the state for not doing enough to promote the development of electric vehicles and other...
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How Prop 39 Works: Closing a Tax Loophole To Bring Clean Energy Funds to...
Proposition 39, which passed in California on Election Day, will tax out-of-state businesses and earmark those new billions of dollars for clean energy programs in the state. To learn more about how it...
View ArticleClean Power's Economic Potential
Before President Barack Obama announced his ambitious "clean power plan" this week, the measure had already earned itself some nicknames. Senator Mitch McConnell of coal-rich Kentucky, for instance,...
View ArticleWorking Towards a Solar-Powered Tomorrow, Today
In Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future, Philip Warburg explores America's solar revolution. Beginning with his solar-powered home in New England, he introduces readers to the...
View ArticleCOP21 and The Clean Power Plan: Can The U.S. Live Up to Its Pledge?
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.This week we're exploring how the global agreement produced at the COP21 climate change summit will impact the carbon intensive energy industry...
View ArticleObama: ‘We’ve got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy’
To address climate change and the increased demand for better energy technology, President Barack Obama, in his final State of the Union address, promised to invest in clean energy sources and rethink...
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GOP-led Congress unlikely to OK Obama’s new clean energy bid
President Barack Obama discusses the latest unemployment rate within the U.S. economy in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty...
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The Green Tea Party: Conservative Group Embraces Clean Energy
Click on the audio player above to hear the full interview.The Republican Party holds it's caucus in Nevada today, and one issue that will likely be on the minds of voters is clean energy.Both parties...
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For Stein, climate change and erasing student debt are high-priority
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks at a campaign rally in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jim Young/ReutersNEW YORK — Jill Stein says America is running out of time.RELATED LINKSGreen...
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13 science and health issues left behind during this election
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential town hall debate with Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis,...
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Energy Department workers sent detailed questionnaire by Trump transition team
President Barack Obama arrives to deliver remarks on clean energy after a tour of a solar power array at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, April 3, 2015. The president has allotted more than $90 billion in...
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Demand for clean energy inspires new generation to innovate nuclear power
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: why some engineers and investors are making big bets to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors.Miles O’Brien has the story. It was a...
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Obama presses Trump not to back away from clean energy
President Barack Obama tours a solar power array at Hill Air Force Base, Utah on April 3, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/ReutersWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama cast the adoption of clean energy in...
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Is alluring but elusive fusion energy possible in our lifetime?
Watch VideoThe post Is alluring but elusive fusion energy possible in our lifetime? appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
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EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming
Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt is sworn in by Justice Samuel Alito at the Executive Office in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carlos Barria/ReutersWASHINGTON — The head of the...
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Trump executive order seeks to reverse Obama’s clean energy regulations
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of...
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Read the full text of Trump’s executive order on energy and climate change
Haul trucks move coal as seen during a tour of Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle coal mine near Gillette, Wyoming, U.S. June 1, 2016. The haul trucks operating at North Antelope Rochelle Mine...
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‘Difficult slog’ ahead to undo Obama climate legacy, says former EPA chief
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: And now let’s hear from the prior administrator of the EPA, who essentially led much of President Obama’s efforts during his second term.Gina McCarthy is now a fellow at the...
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Trump’s order on energy promises coal jobs and a clean environment. What does...
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on “energy independence,” eliminating Obama-era climate change regulations, during a Mar. 28 event at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
View ArticleConservative Group Pushes for Clean Energy
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly denied climate change and promised to withdraw from the Paris climate change...
View ArticleSave the Planet! Part 4: Suck It
This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-up plants, and a giant vacuum. If all else fails,...
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These conservatives are making a case for clean energy
When President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, it was a major blow to the renewable energy industry because of the growing market in...
View ArticleThe Unclean Business Of Clean Energy
Hybrid cars. Solar energy. Hydropower. In recent years, the federal government and private companies have both paid a lot of attention to clean energy. But, the future of the industry is uncertain —...
View ArticleFull Show: The Ripple Effect
We can thank one woman for a lot of the software still used today. A look back at the strides and struggles of Grace Hopper. Clean energy seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. So why doesn’t the...
View ArticleThe Uncertain Business Of Clean Energy
Hybrid cars. Solar energy. Hydropower. In recent years, the federal government and private companies have both paid a lot of attention to clean energy. But, the future of the industry is uncertain —...
View ArticleRethinking Public Health Under Omicron 2022-01-04
Rethinking Public Health Under Omicron We speak with Dr. Céline Gounder, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and host of the Epidemic podcast, about...
View ArticleVindman on Ukraine; Council Member Eric Dinowitz; Clean Energy as an...
Coming up on today's show: Alexander Vindman, retired United States Army lieutenant colonel, former director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council and the author of Here,...
View ArticleThe EPA's Ability to Fight Climate Change Hinges on the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is expected to release an opinion in the case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency soon. Michael Gerrard, professor of law at Columbia Law School and the founder and...
View ArticleFusion Breakthrough
Arthur Turrell, deputy director for research and economics at the U.K.'s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Science Campus, a visitor to the plasma physics group at Imperial College London and...
View ArticleGiant offshore wind turbines take shape as NJ turns on major manufacturing...
Before Chris Maldonado could hire a team to fabricate the colossal steel towers that will hold clean wind energy turbines aloft off the Jersey Shore, he needed to build a worksite big enough for the...
View ArticleHow Clean Is Electrification?
Amanda Smith, senior scientist at Project DrawDown, a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases stop climbing and...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
View ArticleRecord Heat and the Power Grid in Texas and the Southwest
A record heat wave has engulfed much of the Southwest and Texas, but while the heat has sparked anxiety about reliability in Texas, utilities in Arizona are unfazed. Matthew Zeitlin, business and...
View Article‘Clean Hydrogen Hub’ Awardees & Formula One Car Paint
Seven “clean energy hubs” will receive a total of $7B to develop forms of hydrogen production with minimal carbon emissions. And, ahead of the US Grand Prix, an aerodynamicist breaks down the recent...
View ArticleSolar Activity Flares Up In 2024 | Underground Hydrogen Reserves And Clean...
Look out for a total solar eclipse, more solar flares, and the Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the sun. Also, underground hydrogen stores have raised renewable energy hopes, but can the...
View ArticleSunblocked: Resistance to Solar in Farm Country
For the U.S. to meet its clean energy goals by 2050, the Department of Energy projects that the country needs more than 10 million acres of solar development. Most of that is expected to be built in...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
View ArticleThe Backlash Against Building The Solar Energy Grid
To reach the target of 100% clean energy production by 2035, more wind and solar plants need to be built.On Today's Show:Elizabeth Weise, national correspondent for USA TODAY covering climate change...
View ArticleThe Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales
By the time researchers found the dead whale on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, her jet-black skin was pockmarked by hungry seagulls, her baleen had been dislodged from her mouth, and thin rope was wrapped...
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