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![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
How to recycle the giant magnets inside wind turbines? These scientists have a few ideas.
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
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![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
Illinois EPA must revamp its permitting process after Chicago activists file civil rights complaint
“It shouldn't have to be this hard to get these common sense rules in place.”
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A geothermal energy boom could be coming to Chicago’s South Side
The key to building low-carbon infrastructure in the city? Its trademark alleys.
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Campus divestment activists eye fossil fuel profits on stolen land
Grist investigation reveals 14 land-grant universities making millions off Indigenous land.
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![An Amazon warehouse with shades of lighter and darker blue against a blue sky.]()
In New York, 1 in 4 residents now live within a half-mile of a mega-warehouse
The problem: The pollution from all the truck exhaust is mega-dangerous.
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Ignoring Indigenous rights is making the green transition more expensive
“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S. you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."
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![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.
Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.
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![solar panels in the forms of crosses installed on the slanted roof of a Christian church]()
![solar panels in the forms of crosses installed on the slanted roof of a Christian church]()
Across the country, houses of worship are going solar
A federal rule makes it easier for churches, synagogues, and mosques to put solar panels on the roof.
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![Barges and cranes on Chicago river working on buildings.]()
![Barges and cranes on Chicago river working on buildings.]()
Chicago could be first major Midwestern city to ban gas in new construction
Buildings are Chicago’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but efforts to decarbonize them are facing union opposition.
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![Three workers install solar panels on the roof of a house.]()
![Three workers install solar panels on the roof of a house.]()
How California is casting a cloud over residential solar
Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
