EGEB: Oil and gas lobbyists are trying to stop clean energy with Facebook ads
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Fossil fuel lobbyists are using Facebook ads to try to thwart crucial climate-change…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Fossil fuel lobbyists are using Facebook ads to try to thwart crucial climate-change…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testifies at Exxon trial. Elon Musk…
The Homer City coal-burning power station – Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant – is going to be retired permanently in July…
The US oil and gas sector was responsible for $77 billion in total health impacts in 2016, according to a…
New York has become the first state in the US to pass a law that bans the use of fossil…
For the first time ever, renewable power generation – that’s wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and geothermal – exceeded coal-fired generation…
Montgomery County, Maryland, will be the US East Coast’s first county to ban natural gas in new buildings.
The US Interior Department today announced that an oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Cook Inlet will take place on December…
Nearly a quarter of the 200,568 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired capacity currently operating in the US has reported plans to…
Halting offshore drilling expansion, along with the phase-down of existing production of fossil fuels as clean energy is adopted, would…
In 2021, 163 gigawatts (GW) – nearly two-thirds – of new renewable power added was cheaper than the cheapest coal-fired…
The first of 11 8.6 megawatt (MW) turbines has been installed at the world’s largest floating wind farm, off the…
The European Commission wants to label some natural gas and nuclear power plants as sustainable, calling them “transitional” sources of…
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook that rising electricity generation from clean energy such…
Fossil fuel heating is bad for the environment and super expensive right now: Three Democratic legislators wrote a letter to…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): 6.1 GW of global offshore wind was installed in 2020, down slightly from…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Hurricane Ida will affect the price of gas for ICE-car drivers across the…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The end of leaded gas use globally will prevent more than 1.2 million…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): From 2019 to 2020, petroleum consumption decreased in every energy-consuming sector. 25 fossil…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US produced more petroleum and natural gas than any other country in…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US Department of the Interior suspends oil and gas leases in the Arctic…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): ExxonMobil and Chevron suffer shareholder rebellions over a lack of strategy for emissions reduction….
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The Navajo Nation will build two more solar farms that will create jobs,…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The first-generation Irene Vorrink wind farm is coming down. What happens next? The…