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What Happened to the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Boom?

Offshore wind projects cropped up all over the Great Lakes region in the early 2010s. By the end of the decade, all but one were gone. Developers, though still drawn to the lakes’ powerful winds, have been reluctant to return.

By Nicole Pollack

A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market

By Dan Gearino

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Native Americans Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Rice Lake in north central Minnesota. The Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Aitkin County, in north central Minnesota, is home to pristine a 4,500-acre body of water that provides the wild rice harvest that the Ojibwe have depended on for countless generations.

Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota

By Karina Atkins

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

By Wyatt Myskow

Q&A: The Hopes—and Challenges—for Blue and Green Hydrogen

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Microgrids Can Bolster Creaky Electricity Systems, But Most States Do Little to Encourage Their Development

By Dan Gearino

Why Michigan’s Clean Energy Bill Is a Really Big Deal

By Dan Gearino

President Joe Biden addresses striking members of the United Auto Workers union at a picket line outside a General Motors Service Parts Operations plant in Belleville, Michigan, in September. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

UAW Settles With Big 3 U.S. Automakers, Hoping to Organize EV Battery Plants

By Dan Gearino and Aydali Campa

Seth Berry, left, an author of the Pine Tree Power proposal and a former Democratic state representative, answers questions from potential voters at a gathering of climate activists at a home in Winslow, Maine, in August. Credit: Annie Ropeik

Mainers See Climate Promise in Ballot Initiative to Create a Statewide Nonprofit Electric Utility

By Annie Ropeik

A Reality Check About Solar Panel Waste and the Effects on Human Health

By Dan Gearino

Making Solar Energy as Clean as Can Be Means Fitting Square Panels Into the Circular Economy

By Emma Peterson, Wyatt Myskow

Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines

By Emma Peterson

Workers install solar panels at the Double Black Diamond solar farm near Springfield, a 593-megawatt project that will produce clean energy for the city of Chicago. Credit: Rich Saal/Provided.

Illinois’ Signature Climate Law Has Been Slow to Fulfill Promises for Clean Energy and Jobs

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times, and Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News

Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

Electrifying a Fraction of Vehicles in the Lower Great Lakes Could Save Over a Thousand Lives Annually, Studies Suggest

By Aydali Campa

Offshore Wind’s Rough Summer, Explained

By Dan Gearino

New Rules Help to Answer Whether Clean Energy Jobs Will Also Be Good Jobs

By Dan Gearino

Illinois School Districts Vie for Clean School Bus Funds

By Aydali Campa

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