The Verge

Deploying the new climate tech will be a huge undertaking

Inside Climate News

More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an average of $1,427.71 in debt, and shut-offs are increasing.

The Grist

Solar tariffs were supposed to save the U.S. solar industry. They slowed it down instead.

The New York Times

A new proposal would significantly rewrite E.U. rules on renewable energy, ending subsidies for biomass like wood pellets.

Inside Climate News

A battery project uses a technology that could be vital for meeting the need for long-duration energy storage.

Yale Environment 360

Urban designer Peter Calthorpe has a plan for the shuttered and financially troubled strip malls that dot the suburban landscape: Convert the malls into housing that would be part of green communities where people could be closer to their jobs and get out of their cars.

Inside Climate News

Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smoke stacks and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.

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How energy disclosure could help lower renters’ utility bills and tackle climate change.

The New York Times

Carbon credits could eventually play an important role in fighting climate change, but right now a few dollars’ worth won’t change much.

The Guardian

Pascal Lamy to lead commission exploring how methods to tackle global heating could be governed

The New York Times

The billionaire and former mayor of New York City will fund programs in 10 developing countries.

The Grist

Move over, Big Tech: These cities are building a local coalition for carbon removal.

NPR

For more than 50 years, anyone buying or renting a house could look up how vulnerable it is to flooding. But for wildfire risk, homeowners were mostly in the dark.

The Grist

States and the federal government can do more to protect homebuyers, like reforming flood disclosure laws.

The New York Times

An ad led to Domingo Morales falling in love with compost. A windfall is helping him spread the word.

The New York Times

At its heart, the term, which can leave us feeling as if we’re chasing an impossible ideal, is a contradiction.

NPR

On a mild Sunday afternoon, California set a historic milestone in the quest for clean energy. The sun was shining, the wind was blowing and on May 8th, the state produced enough renewable electricity to meet 103% of consumer demand. That broke a record set a week earlier of 99.9%.

The Guardian

Poseidon Water sought to turn seawater into drinking water but activists said plan would devastate ecosystem on Pacific coast

The Grist

A draft plan says it could be done by 2045, but only with the help of significant carbon capture projects.

The New Yorker

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Inside Climate News

National lab uses magnets to extract lithium, potentially helping with shortage of key battery material.

The New Yorker

In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.

The Guardian

Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns

Greenbiz

In 2021, climate tech startups raised an unprecedented $39.2 billion from 1,400 investment firms. The earliest-stage rounds — Seed and Series A investments — accounted for 60 percent of the deals, indicating a wave of new decarbonization-focused startups

NPR

The pandemic working-from-home regime imposed on many white-collar workers might have seemed like a gift for the climate. Fewer commutes, fewer cars on the road, fewer lights on in offices, as well as less heating and AC. It seemed like a big win.

Inside Climate News

The World Meteorological Organization projects global temperatures will briefly break the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming mark soon, but that won’t mean it’s broken the Paris Agreement limit.

The New York Times

The transactions can help major oil and gas companies clean up their own production by transferring polluting assets to a different firm, the analysis said.

Inside Climate News

Studies show health agencies often are sidelined from cities’ climate plans, despite being critical to making them fair. Barcelona shows how including them can make a difference.

The New York Times

Power companies, conservationists, local residents and two U.S. states are mired in an acrimonious dispute about hydroelectricity from Quebec.

The Grist

These heating/cooling systems have been called the “most overlooked climate solution.” Now they can work in temperatures far below freezing.