AI companies can’t grow at speed without electricity to power their data centers. A new report argues that this isn’t just a matter of adding more power plants.
After state regulators approved direct potable reuse, city officials say they could avoid costly pipelines and reservoir storage — reshaping one of the nation’s largest water recycling projects.
Geothermal energy is a reliable, low-emission power source that can repurpose abandoned oil and gas wells. New engineering techniques are attracting rising levels of investment.
Fueled by explosive growth in population and industry, Texas’ total energy use has risen 21 percent since 2007 even as the nation’s overall consumption declined.
Local leaders see data centers, which help power the world’s shift to artificial intelligence, as a way to keep their towns open. Residents worry their way of life — and water — is at stake.
Researchers are building the case for putting nuclear microreactors in all sorts of places. Developers will need to work with communities to understand their hopes, concerns and priorities.
Once among the nation’s renewable pioneers, the state now gets only 4 percent of its electricity from renewables and ranks 49th in renewable growth.
Southern states saw huge amounts of growth in renewables last year, but they'll need to work to keep the momentum going.
Despite federal pullbacks, the transition to clean energy is coming. Here's a road map for state and local leaders.
A regional initiative to use hydrogen energy suffered another setback, with a billion-dollar project canceled in Oregon. Energy companies are wary of an initiative that has drawn criticism from the Trump administration.
With federal EV tax credits ending and emissions rules nullified, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state agencies are preparing new subsidies, incentives and regulations to keep climate goals on track.
The Trump administration is planning a drastic rewrite of environmental policy. Will that happen?
This would be the first coal leasing application accelerated thanks to the new federal law, which aims to cut red tape for energy production.
The Trump administration is trying to stop wind projects, but the Great Lakes states have a powerful say in what happens on the lakes, where turbines could power the entire region and beyond. They should lay the groundwork now.
Despite all the rhetoric about an environmental "war on coal," what drove its decline were falling prices for natural gas.
Subsidies distort fair competition. If these technologies are the future of America’s energy sector, they should compete without the crutch of federal aid.
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