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In North Carolina, conservative clean energy supporters don’t think Trump will follow through on threats
November 22, 2024
Despite Trump’s vague promise to curtail the Inflation Reduction Act, the head of Conservatives for Clean Energy believes congressional Republicans will preserve most of Biden’s signature climate law because of its benefits in rural areas.
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New battery manufacturer in Kentucky to create more than 1,500 jobs
November 15, 2024
Renewable energy company Canadian Solar Inc. announced a new industrial battery manufacturing plant in Shelbyville, representing a $712 million investment.
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Planned Morrisville factory adds to growing NC role in ‘battery belt’
November 11, 2024
Forge Battery, owners of projected plant in Wake County, remain optimistic about prospects of clean energy economy despite political change.
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The future of coal country: Money, power, politics, and tradition
October 22, 2024
As Montana’s coal loses economic vitality, billions of tax dollars can fund renewable energy initiatives — if anyone wants them.
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Southern Wayne and northern Mingo have been hit hard by the decline of coal. For the people left, it’s a struggle to move forward.
September 20, 2024
While tourism is billed as one avenue for economic development, people in the northern Mingo and southern Wayne counties say they need jobs.
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The natural gas boom was supposed to bring prosperity to West Virginians in poverty. That didn’t happen
September 18, 2024
The industry said increased drilling would bring abundant jobs to natural gas-rich counties like Doddridge, Harrison, Marshall, Ohio, Ritchie, Tyler and Wetzel. Instead, people in the region continue to struggle and charities see increased need.
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America’s Rural South Is Paying the Price for Europe’s Energy
September 12, 2024
The nation’s largest climate bill could fuel the biomass industry, leaving Black communities like Adel, Georgia, to suffer the consequences.
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Can battery plant jump-start Edgecombe County’s sputtering economy?
September 09, 2024
With chronic high unemployment, industry losses and a declining population, Edgecombe leaders hope Natron battery plant will spark renewal.
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Signs of a Ceasefire in Michigan’s Energy Wars
August 28, 2024
Rural comunities have been fighting for nearly two decades over large-scale solar and wind farms. A new law might turn down the temperature as the state seeks to reduce carbon emissions from generating electricity.
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In green energy boom, one federal agency made the Yakama Nation an offer they had to refuse
June 24, 2024
Federal rules and a lack of protection for sacred places left the Indigenous nation with an impossible choice.
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Coming soon to a lake near you: Floating solar panels
June 13, 2024
New research finds that “floatovoltaics” could generate a substantial amount of energy worldwide.
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As sprawl threatens farmland, proposed Maine rules single out just one competing land use: solar
June 05, 2024
Some advocates say the rules unfairly single out clean energy based on limited data, but they hope the fees could help funnel development toward brownfields and less productive farmland.
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Vermont set to become first state in the nation to ‘make big oil pay’
May 30, 2024
Gov. Phil Scott has allowed two of the session’s most consequential bills related to climate change to become law without his signature. One holds big oil companies accountable for the damage climate change has caused in Vermont, and another is designed to protect Vermonters from the impacts of more frequent flooding as a result of a warmer atmosphere.
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This county is California’s harshest charging ‘desert’ for electric cars. Local activists want to change that
May 22, 2024
In Imperial County, residents have access to few public chargers and buy electric cars at only a fifth of the statewide rate.
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As Ohio clamps down on clean energy, recent changes make it easier to force landowners to allow oil and gas drilling
May 15, 2024
Streamlined legal requirements and economic factors explain the jump in orders since 2020 to let petroleum companies drill on dissenting owners’ land.
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