Stories by Benjamin Storrow

A surge in battery storage is helping Texas beat the heat without additional fossil fuels

Construction has begun on the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts. It could provide enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes per year

The president is close to fulfilling his promise to cut carbon pollution in half, but everything has to go right

Solar power has been crucial to keeping the power on in Texas while the state experiences a major heat wave, even as some politicians have attempted to make it more difficult to connect renewable energy to the grid

Wind and solar produced more U.S. power than coal during the first five months of this year, as several coal plants closed and gas prices dropped

The U.S. is in a better place to reach its climate goals after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but the implementation of pollution rules and the outcome of the 2024 election could pose major hurdles

The U.S. installed more battery storage last year than ever before, with California and Texas leading the way

Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation

Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S. power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022

A slow economy, clean energy spending, electric vehicles and heat pumps could offset coal combustion to level carbon emissions

Increasing demand for natural gas and oil has offset emissions reductions associated with coal and pushed U.S. energy emissions higher for a second consecutive year

Wind, solar and hydropower will generate more than 20 percent of the power supply

The effects of climate change in the U.S. are steadily worsening and disproportionately affect the most vulnerable residents, a draft report of the next National Climate Assessment finds

The large utility PacifiCorp is studying the viability of turning five fossil-fuel plants into nuclear-energy-and-storage facilities

Emissions associated with energy use are on track to increase by only 1 percent this year because of a boom in wind and solar power

Emissions models can understate the difficulty of rapidly reducing carbon dioxide this decade

The Senate’s passage of a monumental climate bill comes after decades of legislative defeats, but it is still an early step in drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The surprise climate bill’s electricity provisions would help the U.S. surge toward its emissions reduction goals

A surprise breakthrough on climate and energy legislation revives President Biden's environmental commitments by outlining large emissions reductions

Senator Joe Manchin has said he will not support climate provisions in the major spending bill before Congress just as the country faces heat waves, drought and floods exacerbated by rising temperatures

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling and legislative hurdles will make it difficult to reach President Biden’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The agency can still impose stronger limits on other air pollutants that coal plants produce, which could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The International Energy Agency projects that spending on renewables in 2022 will exceed the record $440 billion invested last year

The need to use coal to boost power supplies illustrates the challenge of quickly increasing renewable energy to avoid bigger climate impacts