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Our partners at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University turn up more evidence that American voters demand forward motion on carbon reduction. Their new voter survey finds two-thirds of respondents convinced that legislators should prioritize investment in fossil-free energy.

A report from the Rocky Mountain Institute and General Motors pushes for support to develop technologies in, and to help drivers buy vehicles fitted for, electric Ubers and Lyfts and Vias and such.

How can you safeguard homes in the wild?

Bring in the ethicists, actuaries and silviculturists to figure out how to insure homeowners who buy lots at the edge of wilderness that gets more combustible each year. Then, to really complicate things, reckon with the costs to insure utilities in the same territory. In California, nobody from the insurers...

The United Kingdom's promising to phase out internal-combustion-engine vehicles, which means manufacture of car batteries needs to ramp - and, in the town of Blyth, already has. This credulous December 10 article sizes up plans to make batteries in a Northern town- in part thanks to the robust electric grid there.

Nothing succeeds like exceeding. In this policy memo, which she wrote as part of coursework for the certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy, attorney Joan Beckner makes a nonpartisan argument for delivering all of Texas' energy from clean sources by 2050. The memo Beckner wrote for her class includes...

Two YSE students pick up on a pledge in Joe Biden's climate plan, spelling out how it can reduce asthma and emissions by removing tons of pollution from the air each school day. (This depends on getting schools safely fully open again...)

Max Joel sees maximum benefit in planning — Officials like Max Joel say New York's willingness to support planning and study will help kick-start local solar projects.

People who live in areas where it's hard to own a home and hard to breathe clean air often also find it hard to tap solar power. The New York State Economic Research and Development Authority just signaled an intent to right this imbalance. The agency's new solicitation for bids...

“Flow batteries,” which last many more years and many more hours than the kind we carry in our phones, could make storage of solar or wind power much more straightforward. Firms that make them have commanded high valuations all spring, sometimes with grand and mysterious promises of energy revolution. To...

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A Majority of Voters Chooses to Invest in a More Habitable Planet

Under the Hood and Under the Gun on Electrification?

Unsurance: California Homeowners and Utilities Face Off With Fire

One New Job for Every Eleven Residents in a British Town: That's EV Manufacturing

Texas-Sized Targets: A Simulated Policy Memo Makes a Real Case for Higher Renewables Standards

Electrifying the School Bus Fleet Can Earn an A for Carbon Progress

To Stoke Solar Power for Low-Income Communities, New York Frees Up More Capital

Flow Batteries' Special Ingredients Are No Secret- How They Scale Remains a Mystery