Minnesota cities tap utility fees to help fund local clean energy and climate...
More Minnesota cities are turning to utility customers to fund climate and sustainability projects. The Twin Cities suburb of Eagan is among the latest municipalities to begin collecting what’s known...
View ArticleSteelmaker’s bid to buy U.S. Steel would extend life of Indiana plant — along...
A prospective buyer’s recent commitment to reinvest in a Gary, Indiana, steel plant sought to address union and government leaders’ worries about the sale’s potential impact on jobs and U.S....
View ArticleThis disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to...
Seventeen days after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, tearing down power lines, destroying water mains, and disabling cell phone towers, the signs of relief were hard to miss....
View ArticleWhere will captured carbon go? Ohio company among those seeking to embed it...
Work headed by an Ohio waste-to-energy company to make plastic from biodigester byproducts is among seven projects recently selected for federal grants to develop new ways to use captured carbon...
View ArticleHiring experts to testify in utility cases is expensive, but a Minnesota law...
A year-old state law is helping to bring new voices before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, and advocates and officials hope its impact will grow as more organizations learn about its...
View ArticleMassachusetts legislation looks to remove barriers to the state’s shift from...
Nearly a year after Massachusetts regulators laid out a vision for the state’s evolution from natural gas distribution to clean energy use, lawmakers are coalescing around legislation that would start...
View ArticleMonths ahead of schedule, North Carolina regulators accept Duke Energy’s...
North Carolina regulators on Friday accepted Duke Energy’s controversial plan for curbing carbon pollution, a blueprint that ramps up renewable energy and ratchets down coal power but also includes 9...
View ArticleHome rooftop solar dips in N.C. after Duke Energy reduces payments, but many...
When regulators allowed Duke Energy to lower bill credits to homes with rooftop solar, critics warned the solar industry would suffer a major loss. A year after the new rates took effect, available...
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