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Taking its cues from developers, a North Carolina House committee on Wednesday advanced a sweeping bill to block new standards for thicker insulation, more efficient lighting, and other energy-saving features...

This story was republished from Planet Detroit. To move away from dirty and expensive home heating oil, Maine has decided to go big on one solution: heat pumps. These devices use...

When entrepreneur Crystal Napier’s washer and dryer went on the fritz this winter, she feared the dual failure might short-circuit her home-based clothing boutique. But the mounds of dirty laundry...

In the ongoing negotiations over how best to strengthen Connecticut’s 15-year-old environmental justice law, one debate revolves around two words: may vs. shall.  A bill backed by the state Department...

The pollution burden from energy production in the U.S. has long fallen disproportionately on low-income and BIPOC communities — from “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana to uranium mines on the Navajo...

After five years of rejections, revisions, appeals, and resubmissions, a Cape Cod energy organization has received state approval for a first-of-its-kind pilot program providing a package of solar panels, heat...

Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill that received its first hearing...

A Minneapolis startup company wants to become a leader in the emerging carbon capture and storage market. Carba, co-founded by a University of Minnesota chemical engineering professor and a former...

Illinois’ largest coal plant has been operating for over a decade without ever obtaining an operating permit required under the Clean Air Act, the Sierra Club alleges in a lawsuit...

Missouri’s largest electric utility believes a bill aimed at reducing competition and giving monopoly providers an advantage in building transmission lines will avoid cost overruns and deliver better results for...