Clean Energy

Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy.

A new report from the American Lung Association highlights the health benefits of getting Americans into EVs.

The 2023 edition of Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report warns that current efforts are not enough to achieve the SDG 7 on time.

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The U.S. is finally moving away from fossil fuels, but there aren’t enough electricians to do the job.

When U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman visited his childhood home in Harlem’s East River Houses last winter, he was struck by a piece of graffiti at the entrance. The tag read, simply, “Help.”…

On June 14, the United Nations released its 2021 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Report, which examines the world’s progress toward accomplishing the SDGs. The most recent edition placed special emphasis on…

As climate change increasingly impacts our daily lives, the conversation about the sources for our energy consumption is taking center stage. Further complicated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so-called “natural…

Covid-19 has raised new barriers to building inclusive and prosperous economies and societies. The Global Gender Gap Report 2021 estimates that it may take 136 years to achieve gender parity, with overall…

The Biden administration will help rural Americans modernize their grids, invest in renewables, and improve the energy efficiency of their homes.

In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change on our clients’…

When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought—if any—went to the implications of their lifespan and the fact that they can take centuries to decompose. Consequently,…