Booming power demand is slowing climate progress for US utilities

Published on October 9, 2024

As climate goals creep closer, the U.S. utility sector remains far away from where it needs to be. For the fourth year in a row, the Sierra Club reports that most of the largest U.S. utilities are well off track to meet the Biden administration’s goal of cutting electricity-sector emissions by 80 percent by 2030…

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New Hampshire’s low-income community solar program finally moves forward

October 9, 2024
This article was first published by Energy News Network . More than seven years after New Hampshire regulators first approved the idea of using community solar to create savings for low-income households, electric bill discounts are finally on the horizon for the first batch of participants. “There has been this…

The soul and science of forests

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It’s the middle of August and around the world, trees are burning. In Jasper National Park, nearly 320 square kilometres of forest has been left charred and smouldering. In Greece, 25-metre flames rip through the remaining pine forests of Attica not far from Athens. All the while in Brazil, 13 million acres of the Amazon have gone up in flames, fuelled by a historic drought. And on 200 acres of wo