Eco Policy Watch

Fuel shortages and high prices linked to the Iran war have led several Asian governments to focus on renewables for energy security. From February 28...

The state's Department of Energy report shows real shifts, but the figures leave some gaps.

• Coal down sharply: its share fell from 28% in 2016 to...

• CEO Dan Shugar says trackers can produce "almost 30% more energy," depending on location and project design.
• That gain is a company claim. The...

After two decades of rapid renewable-energy development, an opinion piece argues that China should share its expertise. It notes China is preparing to...

Two distributed solar stories show different stages of the same pipeline.

• Financing committed: Renewable Properties closed construction loans and...

Ahead of COP31's finance focus, this CISL guest post argues that generating clean power is only half the story; the other half is using it.

• Where...

Plastic-to-material conversion shows promise, but its environmental case is still difficult to confirm. Only about 9% of plastic waste is recycled, so...

Getting new power online is slow. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, new projects typically take more than five years from application to operation.

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The EU's Waste Framework Directive is its core legal framework and sets an order of preference for handling waste, called the "waste hierarchy". The...

The proposals try to ease environmental pressure without sacrificing health or food supply:

• Farming shifts: The authors suggest agroforestry and...

The author argues that the end of energy abundance could reorganize society, making redundancy a form of insurance and repair more valuable than...

Storage technologies are often pitched as grid fixes, but the sources separate potential benefits from delivered results. The World Economic Forum...

The Conservation Fund has purchased 2,458 acres outside Plains, Georgia, land that helped shape President Jimmy Carter's conservation mindset.

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Local conditions on data centers are being tested in very different ways:

• St. Louis: A judge removed a requirement to supply 2.4 megawatts of...

A forthcoming UConn study asks how New England should meet rising electricity demand and who will benefit. Its authors note Connecticut expanded...

The Senate advanced the BAAJA permitting bill 73-25, and the article calls its fossil-fuel gains "ironclad wins". Lawsuits must be filed within 150...

A study by MG Geberemedhine compares plastic-waste management policies, practices and challenges in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti. The...

Regulation, not competition, is the main obstacle for community energy co-ops, according to surveyed leaders. Their severity rating for regulatory...

Envision and L'Oréal are exploring whether green ammonia could cut Scope 3 emissions from cosmetics raw materials. The article presents the appeal as...

Food waste is both a climate problem and a hunger problem. Rotting food creates methane, as organizer Tor Allen noted, and the California Air...