What the FERC Is Going on With the Electric Grid

August 16, 2024

We need a better electric grid. And we need it now. 
For decades, we’ve known that the key to slowing down climate change is to use more...

Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy

February 16, 2024

After more than a century, the U.S. is moving away from coal, the dirtiest and most dangerous form of power generation. 
“We are now at a point...

Green Energy / Red States

July 14, 2023

Billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act have started flowing into renewable energy projects and manufacturing. That’s bringing jobs...

Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future

June 30, 2023

No elemental force has done more to shape life on this planet than water, from originating the earliest forms of life, to sculpting our...

Missed Connections: Modernizing Our Multiple Grids

April 21, 2023

Thousands of renewable energy projects are ready to be built and start producing fossil-free power, but they’re stuck in a long limbo for one...

Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency

July 29, 2022

In 2006, PG&E was perceived to be one of the most progressive utilities in the country. They supported California’s landmark climate law AB 32,...

Solar Flare-ups

April 1, 2022

Solar power has become one of the cheapest sources of electricity and is viewed as a cornerstone of our clean energy future. But it wasn’t...

This Moment in Climate with Michael Mann & Leah Stokes

February 5, 2021

With a new pro-science, pro-climate action administration in the White House, there are more pathways — and far greater political will — than...

Blackout

December 20, 2019

The 2018 Camp Fire was one of the most destructive in California’s history, resulting in over eighty deaths and destroying the town of Paradise....

How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility

April 19, 2019

PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California...