Clean Energy Finance Forum

This April 26 radio story from Charlotte quotes an activist from a noted civil-rights family: "We understand that the climate crisis serves as a multiplier on the worst forms of disparity that we as a society have perfected."

Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.

Cities in California and Massachusetts are advancing what has become the newest trend in the local fight against climate change: bans on natural gas hookups in new buildings.

North Carolina has emerged as the epicenter of the region’s fight over wood pellets, a popular substitute for coal in European power plants that critics say is making climate catastrophe worse, not better. Pressure from activists has garnered rhetorical gestures from Governor Roy Cooper against the international biomass trade, but state officials have continued to grant requests from Enviva, the world’s largest pellet maker, to expand production.

Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.

Some residents are concerned about environmental impacts from proposed transmission lines.