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How the fossil-fuel lobby weaponized Julia Child’s gas stove

The propane industry’s weird obsession with school buses, explained

Airlines say they’ve found a route to climate-friendly flying

Why Biden’s multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen energy is such a big deal

The US power grid quietly survived its most brutal summer yet

Is the future of energy ... pouring water on hot rocks in the ground?

The oil industry’s cynical gamble on Arctic drilling

America’s Trumpiest court just put itself in charge of nuclear safety

Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Why ultra-green Germany turned its back on nuclear energy

The nuclear industry’s big bet on going small

The air we breathe was getting better. Then climate change hit.

4 winners and 1 loser in the EPA’s historic move to limit power plant pollution

The EPA’s long-delayed new rules for power plant pollution, explained

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

The thread that ties the recent chemical spills together

Refrigerators have gotten really freaking good. Thanks, Jimmy Carter.

There’s something different about the new gas stove influencer

Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.

Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

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Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

Fight climate change. End fossilflation. Here’s how.

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels

Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be

The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change

Norway’s trillion-dollar wealth fund sold the last of its investments in fossil fuel companies

Democrats have made a puzzling decision to drop their demand to end fossil fuel subsidies

How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly

Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on fossil fuels

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

California solves batteries’ embarrassing climate problem

Why climate activists disrupted the Harvard-Yale football game

The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

Forget cars. We need electric airplanes.