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A Legacy of the New Deal, Electric Cooperatives Struggle to Democratize and Make a Green Transition FDR program to electrify rural America is now beset by expensive coal plants and often-hidebound governing boards, as members clamor for transparency and renewables. President Roosevelt delivers a speech at the dedication of the U.S. Rural Electrification Project. Credit: Getty Images Related Share this article What began three years ago as a campaign to stop the spraying of weedkiller under power lines near homes in the Appalachian mountains of northeast Tennessee, has become an example of a m...
GHOne TV's multiple award-winning news anchor, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman, has emerged Best African Journalist in the TV category of the 2020 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards, held on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya. While the pandemic has overwhelmed the news cycle and dominated headlines around the world, the young Journalist offered a rare perspective on used PPE disposal and gives comprehensive coverage of waste management gaps in Ghana's response to the covid-19 pandemic. Ridwan's TV piece on Covid-19 waste di...
A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020 Low costs of wind and solar power helped renewables pass coal in electricity generation; gas remains the leader. February 26, 2021 Employees of the Goldbecksolar company stand in a solar park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Related Share this article In a year of pandemic illness and chaotic politics, there also was a major milestone in the transition to clean energy: U.S. renewable energy sources for the first time generated more electricity than coal. The continuing rise of wind and solar power, combi...
Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis The state experienced an “all-of-the-above” failure, and previewed a future of winter peaks in energy demand. The Ted Cruz scandal was also instructive. February 25, 2021 Workers repair a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg via Getty Images Related Share this article Now that the power is back on in Texas, we are entering a phase with investigations of all the systems that failed. But some of the biggest lessons are already apparent. Here are some of the ...