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June 25, 2025

Congress Gets Closer to Eliminating the Solar Tax Credit

The Senate Finance Committee is trying to kill the renewable energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, and, unsurprisingly, the changes will hit homeowners and small businesses the hardest. The […]

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June 4, 2025

Combating Climate Apathy with Science

One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is illustrated by the “boiling frog” metaphor: A frog sitting in a pot of water that is being heated gradually will […]

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May 21, 2025

Let the City Know How You Feel About the NYC Urban Forest Plan

Trees play a critical role in the quality of urban life, reducing the urban heat island effect, mitigating air pollution and helping to manage stormwater. Currently, the NYC tree canopy […]

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May 8, 2025

Organizations Will Continue National Climate Assessment

The National Climate Assessment, an ongoing project to review the nation’s climate change preparedness, has been the subject of attacks by the current administration, which dismissed hundreds of scientists working […]

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April 24, 2025

Attribution Science Could Help States Hold Polluters Accountable for Climate Damage

Multiple states, including New York and Vermont, have passed or are preparing Climate Change Superfund Acts, legislation which requires fossil fuel companies to pay into a fund to defray the […]

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April 9, 2025

How Hot Is Too Hot?

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, the story begins during an extreme heat wave in India. Temperatures and humidity, together known as “wet bulb […]

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March 26, 2025

Metals & Minerals for Renewable Energy Projects: How Do Their Impacts Compare to Fossil Fuels?

Trade-offs: they’re unavoidable. As the world attempts to wean itself off its 100-year-long fossil fuel high, a new challenge arises. Batteries, solar panels and wind turbines all require mined materials […]

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March 13, 2025

Tariffs Could Drive Up Electricity Prices in New York

One of the commodities the US imports from Canada is clean electricity generated by hydropower, and states that are closest to the border, like New York and Minnesota, have entered […]

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February 20, 2025

Falling Costs of Solar Power Will Win the Day

If we lived in a more reasonable- some might say more sane- world, the need to adapt to a warming world would not be a political issue. Alas, we are […]

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February 5, 2025

Community Solar Is Thriving. It’s Also Endangered.

If there’s one thing that was made crystal clear this week, it’s that the new federal government is going to be hostile to renewable energy, despite all its obvious benefits. […]

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