Michigan just passed one of the country’s most… | Canary Media
The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature passed bills that aim to accelerate the energy transition — including a mandate for 100% carbon-free power by…| Canary Media
The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature passed bills that aim to accelerate the energy transition — including a mandate for 100% carbon-free power by…| Canary Media
Consumers Energy says closing coal plants by 2025 will help reach its goal of being 90% carbon-free by 2040. But the switch to natural gas is opposed by…| Canary Media
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin told Canary Media Trump’s anti-wind order is "flagrantly illegal." He and 17 other AGs are fighting it in…| Canary Media
Colorado is pushing hard to quickly approve a massive amount of renewable energy while the projects are still eligible for federal incentives. The Republican tax and spending law that passed this summer drastically shortened the timeline for wind and solar projects to qualify for federal tax credits. Under the 2022…| Canary Media
Hundreds of business people, policy analysts, and conservative advocates filled a downtown Cleveland conference hall last week for the National Conservative Energy Summit. One major theme: the need for both the federal and local governments to remove increasingly high hurdles to building renewable energy. …| Canary Media
Known as the data center capital of the world, Virginia offers a crucial test case for electric utilities: Can they meet power demand from the explosion of AI while keeping bills affordable and slashing carbon emissions? Many experts fear that Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest utility, is failing that test. In…| Canary Media
The Trump administration’s latest attack on an offshore wind project could make New England’s electricity less reliable and more expensive. Late last month, the administration halted work on the nearly complete Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, citing dubious “national…| Canary Media
Just over a year ago, the world’s first commercial hydrogen ferry officially set sail in the San Francisco Bay, offering a clean, quiet rebuttal to the noisy, polluting ferries that many coastal cities depend on. Now, the vessel’s owner is working to build a bigger, faster version in New York. Switch Maritime was…| Canary Media
Time is running out for Americans to get a federally funded discount on energy upgrades that can lower their utility bills and make their homes healthier and more comfortable. The GOP tax and spending law passed in July swiftly phases out tax credits that help households afford heat pumps and other energy-saving…| Canary Media
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. When Texas legislators conceived of the Texas Energy Fund in the spring of 2023, its goal of jump-starting the construction of more natural gas power plants to support the state’s strained power grid seemed reasonable. In the two years since that vote,…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. President Donald Trump has put energy front and center during his second term. On his first day in office alone, he froze spending under the Inflation Reduction Act, took a wrecking ball to offshore wind ,…| Canary Media
The Trump administration's order to stop construction of the nearly completed Revolution Wind project is putting hundreds of offshore workers out of a job — including dozens of local fishermen who voted for President Donald Trump and are asking him to reverse course. A week ago, the acting director of the Bureau of…| Canary Media
Bill McKibben — longtime climate activist, journalist, and author of the new book “ Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization ” — joined Canary Media for a conversation about renewable energy, climate activism, the upcoming Sun Day day of action, and much more. To learn…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . It sure looks like the Trump administration is not going to let any coal plants close down during its term — no matter the cost to consumers and to the climate. About 27 gigawatts’ worth of coal is slated to retire in the U.S. between now and the end of…| Canary Media
Commonwealth Fusion Systems just raised $863 million in additional funding as the company works to achieve the decades-old dream of commercializing nuclear fusion. On Thursday, CFS said that, with its Series B2 funding round , the startup has raised about $3 billion in capital since it was spun out of the…| Canary Media
The Department of Energy has once again delayed the retirement of an oil- and gas-fired power plant, adding to concerns that the Trump administration aims to prevent any fossil-fueled power plant from closing during its term. Today, the Trump administration reissued an emergency order forcing the Eddystone power…| Canary Media
AI data centers could flood the overtaxed U.S. power grid with demand and further drive up energy costs for consumers . Or, they could simply agree to use less electricity during the handful of hours per year when the grid is under the greatest stress, making it possible for tech companies to get the power they need…| Canary Media
The deadly explosion in Clairton, Pennsylvania , this month shone a light on a niche type of industrial facility: coking plants, which purify coal for use in traditional steelmaking. The Clairton facility had a long history of environmental and safety issues, but there are 10 other coking plants in the United States,…| Canary Media
The Trump administration is making it harder for low-income households to access the money-saving benefits of solar — but hard doesn’t mean impossible. There’s a lot for developers of affordable solar projects to navigate at the moment. The Trump administration has clawed back billions of dollars in Inflation…| Canary Media
Nippon Steel, the parent company of U.S. Steel, is moving forward with its plans to renovate a giant coal-fueled furnace in Gary, Indiana. The Japan-based steel manufacturer, which acquired U.S. Steel in June, will begin “relining” its largest blast furnace at the Gary Works steel mill in 2026, U.S. Steel CEO David…| Canary Media
There’s no sugarcoating it: A new North Carolina law unraveling utility Duke Energy’s climate goals is a massive setback for the state’s clean energy transition, and it’s being exacerbated by the Trump administration’s full-scale assault on wind and solar power across the country. Yet many observers believe that in…| Canary Media
State leaders enacted a law mandating a key agency to steer clear of the sector, a practical and symbolic move as the Trump administration continues its…| Canary Media
Next-generation geothermal could be a huge source of carbon-free power. A first-of-a-kind project from Google and Fervo Energy is a step in that direction.| Canary Media
“Totally unworkable” rules could kill manufacturing and clean energy investment by restricting tax credits for any project remotely tied to China, experts…| Canary Media
From targeting Energy Star to pausing more obscure rules, the Trump administration is derailing measures that help save money by reducing energy use.| Canary Media
Canary Media’s " Electrified Life ” column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Heard of Earth Day? Get ready for Sun Day . On Sept. 21, a Sunday of course, thousands of people will gather across the U.S. to spread…| Canary Media
The U.S. is still on track to build a record amount of new solar capacity this year, even as the Trump administration works to obstruct renewables. As it stands, the power industry is building more solar than any other type of power plant, which has been the case for several years running. Roughly 12 gigawatts of…| Canary Media
For years, anti-renewable-energy advocates have opposed solar and wind projects on the grounds that they take up too much land. Now those talking points, popularized by groups linked to the fossil-fuel industry, have made their way into a sweeping new directive from the Trump administration. On Aug. 1, Interior…| Canary Media
It happened again. For the second time this year, the Trump administration has halted the construction of a massive offshore wind farm being built to power blue states. On Friday, the acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, ordered the Danish wind developer Ørsted to stop all…| Canary Media
The Rural Energy for America Program has for years helped thousands of American farmers pay for solar panels that lower their energy bills and earn them extra income. The Trump administration is largely putting an end to that. The program, known as REAP, will no longer help farmers install large solar arrays on…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. If your power bills are getting higher and higher, you’re not alone. That’s probably little comfort, but here’s some proof anyway: Utilities requested or were granted a total of $29 billion in rate…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Electricity costs are going up in the U.S. — and the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off clean energy development are only going to make matters worse. The average price of electricity for residential consumers is set to hit 17 cents per…| Canary Media
The Trump administration has extended its order to keep a Michigan coal-fired power plant running until November, well past its planned closure in the spring. It’s the latest move in a push to force dirty, expensive power plants to keep operating, which experts warn could saddle Americans with billions of dollars in…| Canary Media
California’s premier “virtual power plant” program is already reducing the state’s reliance on polluting, costly fossil-fueled power plants. And that’s just the start of what the scattered network of solar and batteries could do to stymie rising utility costs — if the state Legislature can stave off funding cuts to…| Canary Media
China’s dominance of the battery supply chain is uncontested. Many U.S. storage companies have tried to catch up by replicating the technologies already in mass production there. But a smaller cohort is taking a different tack : building factories for next-generation batteries that could give American manufacturers…| Canary Media
The Trump administration is expected to use a controversial Energy Department report to justify keeping costly fossil-fueled power plants online past their retirement dates. But nine state attorneys general and several clean-energy industry groups are demanding the agency fix the document’s heavily criticized…| Canary Media
NEW YORK — Just off the chaotic coastline of Lower Manhattan sits Governors Island, a tranquil oasis of tree-lined paths that the city is transforming into a hub for climate change research. Getting there, however, has long meant riding on a diesel-burning ferry that spews soot and planet-warming gases as it zips…| Canary Media
EPA chief Lee Zeldin claims the proposed pipeline into New York would make New England power cheaper and more reliable. Just about everyone says he’s…| Canary Media
Europe’s largest wind energy company was brought to its knees last week by a market it helped create. Ørsted, the Danish energy giant that constructed the first wind turbines in U.S. federal waters just five years ago, needs $9.4 billion to complete its two remaining U.S. offshore wind projects and to continue to be…| Canary Media
Mounting evidence shows that gas stoves — used in nearly 40% of U.S. homes — pose serious health risks. Now, Coloradans have a new tool to learn about the dangers of cooking with little blue flames. Gas stoves sold in the state will need a yellow health-warning label under a first-in-the-nation law that went into…| Canary Media
It’s no Route 66. But the roughly 80-mile stretch of U.S. Route 50 that snakes across Virginia from the nation’s capital to the West Virginia border is rich in American history and culture. The mostly two-lane, winding mountain road features vineyards, battlefields, high-end resorts, and more. And just like the…| Canary Media
For decades, electrical engineers have dreamed of a device that can seamlessly connect solar panels, battery systems, and on-site generators to high-powered equipment like EV chargers or data center servers, without loads of expensive hardware to make it all work together. Now, these devices, called solid-state…| Canary Media
The Trump administration has set up yet another roadblock for wind and solar power in the U.S. — one that will make it harder for clean-energy developers to qualify for federal tax credits before they expire next summer. Treasury Department guidance released Friday puts new restrictions on the “safe-harboring” rules…| Canary Media
Qiyam Ansari was driving to work the morning of Aug. 11 when he felt and saw an explosion occur just down the road in Clairton, Pennsylvania. Thick black smoke burst from the U.S. Steel facility along the Monongahela River, filling the air with an acrid stench, and the ground began shuddering from a series of blasts.…| Canary Media
Solar and batteries have kept the lights on through extreme weather and power shortages, but the Trump administration is prioritizing grid repairs over…| Canary Media
For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.| Canary Media
Cheese. Beer. Clothes. Paper. Manufacturers across the country rely on combustion boilers to produce the heat required for making a range of products. But by burning coal, oil, gas, and other fuels to do so, that equipment spews health-harming and planet-warming pollution into the skies. A different technology…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . President Donald Trump’s crusade against wind energy is intensifying — and it could come with some serious costs. As much as $317 billion in lost investment, to be exact, per new analysis from research firm Cleanview. That figure is based on the 790…| Canary Media
While China leads the world in both the production and adoption of clean energy tech like solar and EVs, the country has been slower to tackle decarbonizing heavy industry. That is starting to change. In July, the Chinese state-owned steelmaker HBIS Group agreed to sell more than 10,000 metric tons of green steel to…| Canary Media
Welcome to Ohio Utility Watch, a periodic newsletter tracking developments in Ohio’s ongoing public-corruption saga, often referred to as the House Bill 6 scandal. Sign up for the newsletter . It’s over. Well, partly. As of today, customers of regulated utilities in Ohio will no longer pay subsidies for two old…| Canary Media
A new report finds the Trump administration’s push to keep dirty, aging fossil-fueled power plants from closing down could end up costing U.S. utility customers between $3 billion and nearly $6 billion per year by the end of Trump’s term — and that’s a conservative estimate. Thursday’s report from consultancy Grid…| Canary Media
As the Trump administration aims to bolster fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy expansion, new research shows the oil and gas sector has so far failed to become a major jobs creator for heavily fracked areas of northern Appalachia. “To the degree that we allocate resources to help develop that industry,…| Canary Media
Massachusetts has taken another significant step toward its goal of a fossil-fuel-free future. Last week, state regulators issued an order changing who pays when a new customer wants to connect to the gas system, shifting the burden from gas utility consumers as a whole to the household or organization that requests…| Canary Media
The Trump administration appears to be backing away from its fiercely contested efforts to freeze a $5 billion federal funding program for electric vehicle chargers. On Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled revised guidance for states to access their remaining share of $5 billion in formula grants…| Canary Media
Colorado, Maine, and other states are prioritizing clean energy deployment as Trump’s budget law threatens to raise electricity costs and delay climate…| Canary Media
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Trump administration is on a rogue quest to mine critical minerals from the ocean floor — and recent global negotiations over the fate of deep-sea mining reveal just how alone the U.S. is on the issue. The deep-sea treasure that the administration seeks are lumpy, potato-sized rocks known as…| Canary Media
This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. When a heat wave hits New York City, many customers can soon expect a message from Con Edison, asking customers to conserve energy . The reason is to protect the heat-strained electric…| Canary Media
CALISTOGA, Calif. — A quaint northerly outpost of Napa Valley wine country, Calistoga has struggled to keep the lights on when wildfires strike the region. Now it’s got a brand-new microgrid to run the whole town for days on end without any onsite fossil fuels, just batteries and liquid hydrogen. After disastrous…| Canary Media
New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich demands answers from the Trump admin on its "illegal" move to claw back $4.9 billion for the Grain Belt Express…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. California is facing a severe housing shortage. And in some places, namely Los Angeles, the need for new construction is even more dire because of recent wildfire destruction. So in late June, Gov. Gavin…| Canary Media
Earlier this week, two low-carbon cement startups unveiled new partnerships with data-center developers and operators, which are looking at ways to curb the tech sector’s ballooning climate impact. The separate announcements from Sublime Systems and Brimstone are a striking example of how businesses are pressing…| Canary Media
San Francisco already requires most new buildings to eschew gas and run solely on electricity. Now, the metropolis is moving to ensure that substantial renovations in existing buildings are also all-electric. Last week, the city and county’s Board of Supervisors completed the first of two votes to pass the…| Canary Media
President Donald Trump’s budget law will make rooftop solar more expensive starting next year. A lot less solar will be installed as a result.| Canary Media
EPA chief Lee Zeldin claims the “big beautiful bill” allows funds for the Solar for All program to be rescinded. Advocates say that’s false and promise to…| Canary Media
After six years and more than a half billion dollars in consumer costs, Ohio utility customers will no longer have to subsidize two 1950s-era coal plants in the state. A new law that takes effect on August 14 officially eliminates the coal subsidies created by House Bill 6, the 2019 nuclear and coal bailout law at…| Canary Media
Two bills would replace $15 billion in utility power-grid investments with cheaper public financing — a new approach to cutting sky-high electricity rates.| Canary Media
Though the new proposal would still help clean up the region’s smog-filled air, it stops short short of mandating heat pumps and banning appliances that…| Canary Media
Alicia Brown, director of the Georgia Bright Coalition , wants people to know that the $7 billion Solar for All program is starting to bring affordable solar power to her home state — even as the Trump administration threatens to kill it. With the $156 million Solar for All grant the coalition won last year, it’s…| Canary Media
Energy storage is having a moment — but the batteries that are taking off today only have enough juice to provide a few hours of grid power. Developers technically could stack up more batteries for longer-term storage, but that gets prohibitively expensive. For a renewables-dominated grid to ride out days of poor…| Canary Media
A surge of housing development in a Boston suburb is providing evidence that natural-gas bans and strict energy-efficiency standards do not slow new construction or make it more expensive. Indeed, these guidelines can even boost the growth of affordable housing, say local advocates. In 2024, Lexington,…| Canary Media
Some people had sourdough to help get them through the pandemic. Zach Whitney had coffee beans. The former barista began experimenting during the COVID-19 lockdown with a small, electric coffee roaster, seeing what flavors he could coax from tiny batches of fresh beans in his suburban Minneapolis kitchen. “Unlike…| Canary Media
Illinois has big plans for electric vehicles — but they won't happen unless residents of its biggest city, Chicago, embrace the battery-powered cars. That's where EV ambassadors like William Davis come in. Davis is one of a handful of community leaders working with utility ComEd under a new program that’s meant to…| Canary Media
At the end of June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law AB 130 , a sweeping bill that aims to make it easier to build housing, reforms that many lawmakers and experts agree are long overdue given the state’s severe housing crisis. But one provision could needlessly slow the state’s progress on its…| Canary Media
The humble streetlight doesn’t look like a particularly attractive target for theft. But in Los Angeles, a mind-boggling 27,000 miles of copper wire connect those lights to the power grid — and thieves are tearing that wire out at an alarming rate. Public employees can’t keep up with repairs, leaving frustrated…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. This week, the EPA officially proposed revoking its endangerment finding: a 2009 declaration that affirmed greenhouse gas emissions harm human health. The finding underpins many of the agency’s most…| Canary Media
Offshore wind leasing is effectively dead in the U.S. following a Trump administration order issued this week. Large swaths of U.S. waters that had been identified by federal agencies as ideal for offshore wind are no longer eligible for such developments under an Interior Department statement released Wednesday. …| Canary Media
Welcome to Ohio Utility Watch, a periodic newsletter tracking developments in Ohio’s ongoing public-corruption saga, often referred to as the House Bill 6 scandal. If you’re new to the subject, here is an overview . In brief: Utility companies used dark money groups to route roughly $60 million in bribes to…| Canary Media
After a decade of urging from clean energy advocates, utility Duke Energy finally has a plan to let its North Carolina customers access detailed information about their electricity use. Approved by state regulators on July 16, the program has backing from the state customer advocate and the North Carolina…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Just under three years ago, the Inflation Reduction Act went into law and generated tens of billions of dollars’ worth of investment in domestic manufacturing of clean energy technologies. President Donald Trump has turned that wave into a ripple. Since…| Canary Media
The " Eating the Earth ” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. These days, I’m sure it’s frustrating and depressing to spend your time thinking about energy and climate issues. Global coal use hit an all-time high last year. So did greenhouse gas emissions from…| Canary Media
New York just took a big leap toward zero-emissions buildings. On July 25, the State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council approved an all-electric building standard , making New York the first state in the nation to prohibit gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings. Legislators and climate advocates…| Canary Media
Plans are in the works to build America’s first new aluminum smelters in nearly half a century. The two facilities, slated to go online in Oklahoma and possibly Kentucky in the coming years, would dramatically boost domestic production of the versatile metal if completed as planned. But for that to happen, they will…| Canary Media
The starting gun for the long-promised U.S. nuclear renaissance might have just gone off. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced late last week that it has granted several key approvals that Holtec International needs to restart Michigan’s 800-megawatt Palisades Nuclear Plant three years after the facility…| Canary Media
Five years ago, B2U Storage Solutions proved that old EV batteries could hook up to the grid to store clean energy, safely and cheaply. Now the company is taking the concept to Texas. B2U just broke ground on a second-life grid battery project in Bexar County, near San Antonio, the company told Canary Media. In the…| Canary Media
The country’s biggest power market is caught in a trap of its own making — and the more than 65 million people from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes who rely on it for electricity will pay the price. Last week, PJM Interconnection announced a new record in its annual capacity auction , the means by which…| Canary Media
The rooftop solar industry is facing an unprecedented crisis. Utilities are cutting incentives . Major residential solar installers and financiers have gone bankrupt . And sweeping legislation just passed by Republicans in Congress will soon cut off federal tax credits that have supported the sector for 20 years. …| Canary Media
A controversial bill to unravel North Carolina’s climate law would cost the state more than 50,000 jobs annually and cause tens of billions of dollars in lost investments, a new study finds. The research comes days before the Republican-controlled state legislature aims to override a veto of the measure by Gov. Josh…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. So far, 2025 has been a mixed bag for EV sales in the U.S. A record 607,089 EVs left the lot in the first six months of the year, Cox Automotive reports , but sales in the second quarter were still lower…| Canary Media
Massachusetts regulators are considering a plan to make heat pumps an obvious financial choice for most residents. The state Department of Public Utilities is mulling a proposal to heavily discount electricity rates in the winter months for households with heat pumps, a move that could cut energy bills for more than…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . It’s getting easier and easier to find a public EV charger in the U.S. Between 2020 and 2024, the number of public EV charging ports available to U.S. drivers doubled, reaching nearly 200,000 by the end of last year, according to International Energy Agency…| Canary Media
Maine is sprinting to build clean energy projects before federal tax credits expire. State utility regulators are fast-tracking plans to procure nearly 1,600 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy , with the goal of getting projects started before key incentives disappear under the budget law signed by President Donald…| Canary Media
Southern California’s grid needed help in the fall of 2016. The region was still reeling from the calamitous Aliso Canyon gas leak, and its power plants faced a potential shortfall of that fuel to meet air-conditioning demand when the next summer rolled around. The state took a chance on a new grid technology ,…| Canary Media
The Trump administration just dealt a blow to the biggest transmission line project currently underway in the United States. The U.S. Department of Energy has canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express , a massive transmission line project seeking to carry wind and solar energy from…| Canary Media
Southern California can keep a landmark rule that’s meant to spur the electrification of certain boilers and water heaters across the smog-choked region. Late last week, a federal court upheld the first-in-the-nation regulation, which will gradually eliminate emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from more than 1…| Canary Media
New Hampshire’s new state budget redirects an estimated $15 million from a dedicated renewable energy fund into the general fund, likely signaling the end of plans to expand a popular pilot supporting municipal solar developments. While some New England states have moved to strengthen clean energy policy in the face…| Canary Media
Rooftop solar costs way more in the United States than it does elsewhere in the world. That’s long been a headache for the sector to navigate. But now with Republicans in Congress killing off the decades-old tax credit for rooftop solar, it’s a life-or-death problem. So says Andrew Birch, a 25-year industry veteran…| Canary Media
The Trump administration just dealt another blow to U.S. environmental regulations — one that could allow more contamination of drinking water from toxic coal ash contamination. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed on July 17 to extend deadlines for required reporting and groundwater monitoring at coal ash…| Canary Media
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here . New York Governor Kathy Hochul has made energy affordability a centerpiece of her political platform this year, blasting proposed utility rate hikes and even…| Canary Media
An Ohio bill that would establish rules for underground carbon dioxide storage is being shaped behind the scenes by oil and gas companies that stand to benefit from the legislation. House Bill 170 would pave the way for companies to pump waste carbon dioxide from industrial plants and hydrogen production deep…| Canary Media
How do you reduce greenhouse gas emissions from one of the largest sources — buildings — without breaking the bank or the grid? To answer that question, the utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) turned to DNV , a global risk management and assurance consultancy, to examine the benefits of heat pumps. While heating,…| Canary Media
