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Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

There's really no "energy crisis"

Carl Pope
Water Heater | Grand Coulee Dam (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Saving the Earth with... water heaters?

Evan Mills
(Getty Images)

Oil companies all-in on petrochemicals

Constance B. Bailey - The Conversation
An oil well in Syria. (Getty Images)

Resource wars in a renewable future

Michael Klare - TomDispatch.com
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Pike Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm on February 16, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Power outages across the Plains

Michael E. Webber - The Conversation
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Emily Pontecorvo
(Getty/David McNew)

Can a city truly be 100% renewable?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Company HE3DA President Jan Prochazka shows qualities of a new battery during the official start of a battery production line in Prague, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. The new battery is based on nanotechnology and is supposed to be be more efficient, long-lasting, cheaper, lighter and above all safer. The battery is designed to store energy from renewable electric sources and cooperate with smart grids. Next planned type will be suitable for electric cars. (Michal Kamaryt /CTK via AP) (AP)

Electric utilities slow to make switch

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
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In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, wind turbines dot the landscape near Steele City, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Shared goals, divergent pathways

Deidra Miniard, Joe Kantenbacher, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, contractors walk past a capacitor bank at an AEP electrical transmission substation in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

A Midwestern wind battle

Sharon Zhang - Truthout
Split of participants at the Climate Summit in Madrid, and protestors from the Global Climate Strike (Getty Images/Salon)

Does UN climate summit even matter?

Carl Pope
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

Sun sets on US green economy leadership

Lucien Georgeson, Mark Maslin - The Conversation
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A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Climate activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. in 2015. One displays a sign admonishing ExxonMobil for its complicity in furthering the climate apocalypse. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

ExxonMobil bankrolling climate deniers

Elliott Negin - Truthout
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 01: Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the California Democrats 2019 State Convention at the Moscone Center on June 01, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Warren wants to repeal tax cuts on rich

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Unions have a plan for climate action

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

California farmers turn to solar farming

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The bright future for 100% clean energy

Glenn Daigon - WhoWhatWhy
FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, giant ducts carry superheated steam from within a volcanic field to the turbines at Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Fie) (AP)

Renewable power is underneath our feet

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

What will a Jones Act waiver mean for PR

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) (AP)

Why going renewable means dirty mining

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Electrifying news!

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, a woman wearing a mask walks to a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing. Yet the city’s average reading of the tiny particulate matter PM2.5 - considered a good gauge of air pollution - is still seven times what the World Health Organization considers safe. A group of Chinese lawyers is suing the governments of Beijing and its surrounding areas for not doing enough to get rid of the smog. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

The Green New Deal and colonialism

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - The Conversation
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