Analysts were studying the carbon benefits of switching homes to electric heating when they discovered financial benefits too, in some homes.
Homes in places like Providence, Rhode Island that burn heating oil or propane could not only drastically…
2018
Writing for NBC this week, the science journalist Erin Biba criticizes WeWork for taking its communal workplaces vegetarian, on the grounds that “it lets fossil fuel companies off the hook.” As if there’s only one hook.
It’s a weird argument, that we…
Imagine villages in the Canadian wilderness powered by small nuclear reactors that also provide the fuel for home heating and transportation.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories hopes to prove the viability of small modular reactors by 2026 and use them…
California is on track to meet its clean-energy goals a decade early thanks in part to communities demanding and delivering renewable energy faster and cheaper than utilities can, according to a report released this morning.
A growing number of…
Companies have to take the lead on environmental regulation now that it's clear the federal government won't do it, former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said.
The idea of companies regulating themselves is anathema to people who've been…
Nuclear energy has been the recipient of almost half of the federal government's energy research and development spending since 1948, according to a new assessment from the Congressional Research Service.
Fossil fuels come in second at half that…
In an otherwise dour outlook on the world's chances of recovering from climate change, the International Energy Agency director named one bright prospect that arrived this year bearing President Trump's signature.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol…
The executive director of the International Energy Agency said he would be "too diplomatic" if he told us the Paris Agreement temperature targets could still be met.
Only radical changes in technology and government policy can get us there now, Fatih…
Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. The primary component of natural gas… [+] is methane, which is odorless when it comes directly out of the gas well. In addition to methane, natural gas typically contains other…
How did the United States, at 242 years of age, become the new world leader in oil and gas production and at the same time, the new world leader in reducing carbon emissions? In part because of the U.S.'s two other new accomplishments in the energy…
