LUZERATH, Germany, January 17, 2023 (ENS) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police Tuesday while protesting a coal mine expansion that has emptied a now-abandoned hamlet in [...]
OXFORD, UK, September 13, 2022 (ENS) – Transitioning to a decarbonized energy system by around 2050 is expected to save the world at least US$12 trillion (£10.4 trillion), compared to [...]
VIENNA, Austria, August 22, 2022 (ENS) – The office of French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “reconsidered” his original demand that International Atomic Energy [...]
PALM SPRINGS, California, August 15, 2022 (ENS) – The Palen Solar Project, a 457-megawatt photovoltaic facility in Riverside County, California, has reached full power operation, the Department of the Interior [...]
ALBANY, New York, April 19, 2022 (ENS) – To deliver clean, renewable solar, wind and hydroelectric power from upstate New York and Canada south to fossil-fuel powered New York City, [...]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 8, 2022 (ENS) – The underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the hills above the Pearl Harbor Naval Station on Oahu will be de-fueled and [...]
LYNGBY, Denmark, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – To support decarbonization of the maritime industry by eliminating idle emissions, Maersk Supply Service is launching its offshore vessel-charging venture, Stillstrom. The new [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2022 (ENS) – Two-thirds of U.S. states are considering how to safely install nuclear power to replace the coal, oil, and gas that are being phased [...]
PARIS, France, December 2, 2021 (ENS) – The world’s first floating wind turbine with an integrated hydrogen production system onboard has advanced one step closer to realization.
Known as the [...]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 14, 2021 (ENS) – At least 16 wind energy projects are in the works for offshore locations around the United States, at various stages of development and [...]
NEW YORK, New York, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – Commitments of US$400 billion in new finance and investment to increase renewables and access to electricity and clean cooking techniques were [...]
TOKYO, Japan, June 22, 2021 (ENS) – Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has just boosted development of what will be Southeast Asia’s largest onshore wind farm in southern Laos, by announcing a [...]
BEMIDJI, Minnesota, June 7, 2021 (ENS) – In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands crude oil pipeline. Over 1,000 [...]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 4, 2021 (ENS) – A Danish aid plan to support electricity production from renewable sources has won the approval of the European Commission. Denmark will invest €400 [...]
BERKELEY, California, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change concerns are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out heat-trapping carbon emissions [...]
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, February 22, 2021 (ENS) – The Arctic’s icy Northern Sea Route is melting, allowing the Russian icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie to complete her experimental [...]
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, February 15, 2021 (ENS) – A settlement has been reached between the U.S. government and the oil and gas company Fleur de Lis Energy, which has agreed to [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 14, 2020 (ENS) – The Trump administration has begun to auction off roughly one-third of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. It is no [...]
PAGE, Arizona, December 19, 2020 (ENS) – For 45 years the Navajo Generating Station was the largest coal-fired power plant in the western United States – a 2.25-gigawatt facility [...]
GOLDEN, Colorado, October 23, 2020 (ENS) – In rural Northern California, inland American Indian reservations risk being “islanded” from the larger electricity grid should a wildfire disable the single [...]
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