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Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 3 States to Watch in 2021 Even with Biden in charge, much of the action on clean energy will remain at the state level. The Massachusetts State House the seat of Government in Boston. United States. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images Related Share this article The Biden administration promises to restart U.S. progress on clean energy and climate policy, after the backsliding of the last four years. But one thing that won’t change from the Trump administration is tha...

COVID death of Original Philly Cheesesteak supervisor triggers a lawsuit against meatpacking giant Sam Wood, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS The Original Philly Cheesesteak Co. plant on East Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia, On April 2, Brian Barker’s supervisors at the Original Philly Cheesesteak Co. plant in North Philadelphia handed him an electronic thermometer. He was ordered to scan the temperatures of his fellow employees as...

Inside Clean Energy: Des Moines Just Set a New Bar for City Clean Energy Goals The city’s 24/7 energy plan signals a notable change in the way we talk about clean energy goals. January 14, 2021 The Des Moines City Council unanimously voted this week in favor of a resolution that sets a goal of reaching 24/7 carbon-free electricity by 2035. Credit: Steve Pope/Getty Images Related Cities setting clean energy goals now have a new leader to emulate: Des Moines, Iowa. The Des Moines city council v...

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived After years of build up, a giant battery storage project is online in Moss Landing, California, and a huge one is on the way in Florida. January 7, 2021 A worker controls batteries in an electricity storage container on Sept. 29, 2020 in Fontenelle near Dijon in France. Credit: Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images Related Just five years ago, a 20 megawatt battery storage project was considered big. Now a 300 megawatt project, the large...

In Georgia Senate Race, Warnock Brings a History of Black Faith Leaders’ Environmental Activism Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached and Warnock is senior pastor, has been a leader in embracing climate action. December 31, 2020 The Rev. Raphael Warnock at the funeral in July of Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images Related Share this article Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where ...

The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale A new EU climate target cements Angela Merkel’s global legacy, but many in Germany say she has often been an obstacle to progress. December 31, 2020 German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images Related Power Switch: Last in a series about the German energy transition. Inside a co...

On the morning of Dec. 8, about 30 workers at a Georges poultry plant in Springdale, Arkansas, staged a walkout to protest their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The family-owned company, one of the 10 biggest poultry producers in the U.S., is headquartered in Springdale and also operates processing plants in Virginia and Missouri as well as a prepared foods division in Tennessee, with more than 4,800 employees across all locations. The plant that workers walked out of is one of...

Nine workers died and hundreds were sickened in a COVID-19 outbreak at the plant earlier this year.

Share this article For Darilyn Turner and her neighbors, living in the bottomlands along the banks of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans is particularly perilous from June through November. Those months encompass the Atlantic hurricane season. Even in a normal year, people are on edge, she said, worried about storms that blow over the Gulf of Mexico, bringing walls of water, high winds and, often, widespread destruction when they find land. But 2020 was no normal year.  A record Atlan...

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation Wind energy on land and offshore, along with solar, get tax credits in the U.S. stimulus bill; Belgium to get energy storage for its grid from a Google backup battery. December 24, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article Clean energy industr...