Emily Pontecorvo, Grist
Emily Pontecorvo is a reporter at Grist
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Utility regulators have a collegial relationship with the companies they are charged with regulating on behalf of the public — and the natural gas industry is working that relationship to shape how the country moves toward its climate goals.
Efforts to offset carbon dioxide emissions traditionally involve planting trees — but reforestation is considered a temporary solution to rising CO2 levels, one that's being eschewed in favor of more permanent tactics like carbon removal.
The International Energy Agency just announced that for about about $100 billion — less than 3% of the profits that oil and gas companies earned last year — 75% of energy-related methane emissions could be eliminated with readily available technologies.
One in five Americans now lives in an area that's trying to move buildings off fossil fuels.
From rising grocery and utility bills to skyrocketing insurance premiums, warming temperatures from climate change hit our wallets hard in 2022.
Using electricity to make "clean" hydrogen, which doesn't release carbon dioxide when burned, could be an elegant climate solution for our energy needs — or it could prop up a dirty grid and perpetuate the use of natural gas.
California has become the first state in the U.S. to legally mandate ending the use of natural gas in existing buildings — particularly in appliances like heaters — in an attempt to curb air pollution and reduce the reliance on fossil fuels.
The California state legislature passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans, including those addressing oil drilling, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets and other climate goals.
A California non-profit is retrofitting homes to make a "virtual power plant" — and fighting gentrification at the same time.
A third year of drought spells less hydropower, more natural gas, and higher electricity prices.