Biden Administration Announces More Than $2 Billion in Grants to Boost US Power Grid
The grid is overburdened, under-resourced — and vital to the energy transition. New federal funding aims to increase capacity and get more clean energy built.
California’s Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas Plants and Move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor is now…
Renewables Outstrip Coal in US For First Time, With 50% of New Power Being Solar
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy announced this week that for the first time in…
Scott Ritter: Pipelines v. USA
Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream…
Fossil Fuels Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute
A study by none other than the IMF found that the planet collectively spends $11 million per minute on subsidies for fossil fuels, all while the world barrels towards an…
Explosions Cause Major Damage to Both Nord Stream Pipelines
A Polish member of European Parliament suggested the US was responsible.
West Virginians Lead Blockade of Coal Plant That Made Manchin Rich
Hundreds of campaigners participated in the blockade of Grant Town Power Plant, which receives coal waste from Enersystems, the company owned by the West Virginia senator's son.
The Costs of (Another) War
By Andrea Mazzarino / TomDispatch What do a six-year-old in the United States and an 85-year-old in Russia have in common besides being on opposite sides of a war? They’re…
Years of Local Opposition Defeats PennEast Pipeline
Opponents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey cheer "cancellation of this unneeded, dangerous fracked gas pipeline."