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How deep-red Utah helped launch a portable plug-in solar movement
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (1325+ words) Utah state Representative Raymond Ward was reading a story in The New York Times about a growing trend in Europe, and it sparked an idea to make energy more affordable and portable at home. Plug-in solar panels " sometimes called "balcony…...
The state of solar: Despite partisan rhetoric, the industry is still booming
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (830+ words) grist. org We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. The future looked dire for renewable energy in the United States last spring. Republicans in Congress started gutting the Inflation Reduction Act, forcing its generous tax…...
The country's biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who's going to clean up the $100 M mess?
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (1756+ words) Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium's pollution up close. He's seen the wastewater pond that was so acidic it bubbled like a cauldron. He noted where the corrosive liquid had eaten through the soil beneath, and where…...
Why $4 gasoline is the tipping point for EVs
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (676+ words) Gasoline prices continue ticking higher as the United States and Israel's war with Iran continues. As of March 19, the national average stands at $3. 88 per gallon, nearly a dollar higher than at the start of the conflict. It's also just shy…...
How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility
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Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away.
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1620+ words) Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site....
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (485+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. Pete Hegseth, who has taken to calling himself the Secretary of War, says the Defense Department "does not do climate change crap." Just last week, he asserted that…...
New Hampshire Republicans want to raise taxes on homes with'solar
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (432+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. The exemption means that homeowners without solar must pay more property tax to make up for the money not being collected from the'extreme minority" who have solar panels,…...
EVs are already making your air cleaner
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (308+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. "A pretty small addition of cars at the ZIP code level led to a decline in air pollution," said Sandrah Eckel, a public health professor at the University…...
This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid " and save everyone money
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (171+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. Active managed charging works in conjunction with something called "time of use," in which a utility charges different rates depending on the time of day. Between 4 pm and…...