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EPA electricity rule reverberates

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The ins and outs of Obama’s carbon cap for power plants, a touching  essay on the climate generation gap, a take-down of “Solar Freakin’ Roadways,” and much more.

Getting the carbon out of electricity

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Europe backs away from food-based biofuels, Google unveils self-driving cars, the race between a biker and Car2Go, and many more tales of climate and clean energy

Welcome to the Climate Fight, USA!

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Climate policy question #1 is simple: Will we put responsible limits on the largest sources of climate pollution?

Carbon cleanup: how clean fuels will protect our health and save money

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California is saving lives and boosting its economy by capping carbon emissions and supporting clean fuels. Can't we do the same for Washington?

Bread, freedom, social justice... and climate security

by Chris Bast on

From Tahrir Square to hurricane-ravaged Staten Island, our climate crisis is also a crisis of equity and environmental justice.

Healthy forests are biomassive energy producers

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Northwest forests are the focus of groundbreaking research into new sustainable biofuels and envigorated rural economies.

Utility bonds downgraded on promise of rooftop solar with storage

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Renewables gain market share as prices drop, Royal Dutch Shell rebuffs 'stranded asset' worries, California cap-and-trade laid bare, and much more

Big Carbon's Worst Economic Nightmare

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Renewable energy is growing fast, despite big oil's efforts to slow it down. We need both tech progress and political pressure to keep expanding green power. 

The space beyond denial, before despair

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Joined by over 900 allies and leaders from around the region and around the country, we heard from heroes who are using their respective fields as platforms for real climate leadership. We also took some selfies.

Switch sooner, save sooner

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In this week's ClimateCast: A Republican mayor pushes for a net-zero energy code, insurers place their bets on climate risk,  rooftop solar makes strides in Bangladesh, and more news of the emerging clean energy economy.

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Earth Week in a time of monsters

“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Today’s intersection of monstrous planetary crises has a name and a face: the Trump administration, with fossil fuel interests pulling strings behind the scenes.