China continues to build massive renewable energy systems, but at the same time it is building lot of new coal fired facilities.

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Does the transition to clean energy rely on technology? Sure. Energy innovation is one kind of technological advancement that can enrich human lives, as the energy system is the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major driver of climate change. Over the last decade, technologies have evolved enough ... [continued]

The post Don’t Blame Technology For The Start-And-Stop Transition To Clean Energy appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Amit Forlit is accused of running a hacking operation that aimed to thwart climate litigation at the behest of a lobbying firm working for an oil giant.

The name Doug Field has been prominent in the EV world for quite some time. He was a top executive at Tesla for five years, after working at Apple for five years. In August 2018, he then went back to Apple for three years to lead Project Titan, the company’s ... [continued]

The post Ford’s Head EV & Tech Guy Leaving appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.

Pacific pocket mice are geographically isolated, but the species may retain the genetic diversity needed to adapt to climate change.

The useful way to understand U.S. wind energy in 2026 is to start with a contradiction. In physical terms, it remains one of the largest and most important wind markets in the world. In policy terms, it has become less stable and less predictable in a short period. The dichotomy ... [continued]

The post America’s Wind Market Keeps Building Under Policy Pressure appeared first on CleanTechnica.

If you actually head over to the BLUETTI website, there’s an enormous range of portable power products you can buy, for all sorts of needs and all sorts of people. One thing that hit me recently is how much these really do cut the use of polluting fossil fuels. In ... [continued]

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8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup

The supreme court handed a win Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up damage to the state’s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits.

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A new demonstration facility in Iceland aims to validate a new, energy efficient process that slashes the cost of electrolysis-derived sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 70%.

The post Trump Makes The Case For SAF Stronger Than Ever Before appeared first on CleanTechnica.

A newly released study by People of Asia for Climate Solutions (PACS) and New Energy Nexus (NEX) underscores the potential of deeper Philippines–China cooperation to speed up the country’s shift to renewable energy, while unlocking economic and technological gains for both sides. Titled “Bridging Opportunities: A Roadmap for China–Philippines Renewable ... [continued]

The post PH–China Energy Partnership Flagged As Key To Accelerating Renewable Transition appeared first on CleanTechnica.

In yet another symbol of defeat for Trump's war on offshore wind, the first turbine has been installed at the 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind project in New York.

The post Surprise! New York Scores Another Offshore Wind Victory appeared first on CleanTechnica.

New IEA report highlights growing mismatch between accelerating use of rare earths across a wide range of technologies and slow pace of supply diversification globally. Rare earth elements are moving rapidly to the forefront of global policy making for energy, transport, advanced manufacturing and digital technologies as demand continues to ... [continued]

The post New Projects, Partnerships, & Policies Are Needed to Address Supply Chain Risks for Rare Earth Elements appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Sometimes story pitches are sent to my personal email address, and some are not at all appropriate. Recently, someone sent some nonsensical information about how the transition to electric vehicles from gas and diesel vehicles will take 100 years or more because installing public EV chargers takes too long. Such ... [continued]

The post 2,926 New Public EV Chargers To Be Installed In Belgium appeared first on CleanTechnica.

One of the benefits electric vehicles have that gas and diesel vehicles do not is that EV battery packs can be used again for a second life as stationary energy storage. It’s been 10 years since I wrote this article, and since then EV battery packs have been repurposed for ... [continued]

The post Rivian EV Batteries To Be Used For Stationary Energy Storage At Rivian Factory appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and life-friendly haven. New DNA evidence reveals that forests of oak, elm, and hazel were already thriving there more than 16,000 years ago—thousands of years earlier than scientists thought possible. Even more astonishing, researchers detected traces of a tree species believed to have vanished from the region hundreds of thousands of years ago.

A hidden threat is emerging in the world’s glaciers: while most are shrinking, a rare group known as “surging glaciers” can suddenly accelerate, unleashing powerful and sometimes destructive events. Scientists have identified over 3,100 of these glaciers worldwide, with many clustered in high-risk regions like the Arctic and the Karakoram Mountains, where communities lie directly in their path.

Decision to expand heat classification system follows dramatic temperature changes in recent years

Extreme heat is extremely hard on your vehicle, but a few simple precautions can help a lot.

The river of grass is not on track to meet a new water quality standard, according to the report. The state says recent data show the pollution is nearly within limits.

By Amy Green

Florida’s fragile Everglades are not on track to meet a new water quality standard set to take effect next month, even after nearly 40 years of costly restoration work aimed at addressing pollution in the river of grass, according to a new report.

We’re taking the next step toward bringing fully autonomous ride-hailing to London this year with the start of autonomous driving with trained specialists behind the wheel. Since we arrived, we’ve put the Waymo Driver through closed course testing, and a team of trained, local professionals have driven the vehicles across tens of ... [continued]

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If Tesla Cybertruck sales didn’t look bad before, they sure do now. Apparently, SpaceX has been buying a huge chunk of them. There haven’t been many sales in recent months, but Musk’s companies have been buying them, especially SpaceX. According to a Bloomberg analysis, 18% of Cybertruck registrations in the ... [continued]

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Waymo is entering our next major chapter in Florida. After welcoming over 150,000 riders from our initial interest list in Miami and Orlando over the last few months, Waymo is now open to everyone in both cities. Starting today, residents and visitors alike can simply download the Waymo app and ... [continued]

The post Florida’s New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami & Orlando appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Yes, I’ve noticed this for several months and considered writing such an article. I’ve been covering electric vehicles for 14 years — sometimes that gives me a lot of useful perspective, and sometimes I forget details of how things have changed. I remember a time when there were almost never ... [continued]

The post EV Announcements Have Dried Up Enormously, Even Tesla’s — The Trump Slump Is Real appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Cox Automotive collects the most extensive data on US EV sales, through its long famed and respected arm Kelley Blue Book. In the opening paragraph of its latest report on the market, the company provided a slight silver lining: “At 216,399, EV sales in Q1 were lower by 7.8% compared ... [continued]

The post This US EV Market Share Chart Is Quite Lame appeared first on CleanTechnica.

For all the damage US President Donald Trump has done to the domestic wind and solar industries, they just keep persisting. The latest example is the massive, 550-mile, 3-gigawatt SunZia SouthWest Transmission Project linking renewable energy assets in sunny (and windy) New Mexico with Arizona and California. Construction began less ... [continued]

The post More Proof That Trump’s War On Renewable Energy Is Failing, Badly appeared first on CleanTechnica.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted to approve a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, to allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas. In a 50-49 vote, Senate Republicans utilized a baseless interpretation of the Congressional Review Act to overturn a ... [continued]

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Petition Identifies Multiple, Serious Problems with New Information and Analysis in Final Rule Washington, DC — Sixteen health and environmental groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining severe flaws in its rule to repeal the Endangerment Finding and motor vehicle climate pollution standards and describing how the ... [continued]

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EVs continues to push across the hurdles of a recalcitrant US market, with the Honda venture Fastport providing an example of perseverance in the pedal-powered micromobility sector.

The post Honda Is Determined To Sell More EVs In The US, One Way Or Another appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Heat pump water heaters (HPWH) are one of the key technologies to save this troubled little planet of ours. They are 3–6 times more efficient than other water heaters, save hundreds of dollars on utility bills and 1 ton of CO2 every year compared to water heaters that burn fossil ... [continued]

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The proposed electric passenger hydrofoil from downtown Vancouver to Bowen Island and Gibsons remains a useful hook for thinking about ferry electrification, but it does not need to carry the full analytical burden twice. In the earlier piece on the proposal, I laid out the core challenges in some detail. ... [continued]

The post Electric Hydrofoils Are Intriguing. Electric Catamarans Are Scaling appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Ontario’s return to renewable procurement is the clearest sign that one of Canada’s largest electricity markets has accepted a reality it spent years resisting. The timing is propitious as I prepare to provide an update to a global audience on North American wind energy through the World Wind Energy Association. ... [continued]

The post The New Geography Of Wind Power In Canada appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The Endangered Species Committee, known as the God Squad, issued a rare exemption from compliance with the Endangered Species Act for oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Wyatt Myskow

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its decision to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from complying with the Endangered Species Act, a move they say threatens both the coastline region and the law designed to protect threatened plants and animals.

Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.

The latest research on the AMOC current in the North Atlantic finds it is likely to collapse much sooner than previously thought.

The post Latest Research Suggests AMOC Could Collapse Sooner Than Expected appeared first on CleanTechnica.

In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative.

The US solar cell manufacturer Suniva is back in action with plans to bump its capacity up from 1 gigawatt annually to 5.5 gigawatts.

The post US Solar Cell Manufacturer Rises From The Dead, Again appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Covering Climate Now was launched in 2019 with the express intent of breaking the “climate silence” that prevailed in most news media. And for a few important years, that silence was broken. Now, much of the media has gone, if not silent, certainly quiet. Climate coverage declined globally in 2025 by 14% compared to 2024. In the US, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News reduced the airtime devoted to climate change by 35%. 

To understand this retreat from climate coverage and how it might be remedied, CCNow’s executive director Mark Hertsgaard held conversations in early 2026 with more than 30 climate journalists at leading TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and digital news outlets in Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa. 

Those conversations, along with CCNow’s years of work with journalists and news outlets around the world, inform a white paper that CCNow is releasing today. The Nation, one of CCNow’s co-founding organizations, is publishing the paper as well. Kyle Pope, CCNow’s co-founder and executive director of strategic initiatives, is discussing the paper in Chicago today at the Society for Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, joined by Aparna Mukherjee, SEJ’s executive director; Mark Hertsgaard, CCNow’s executive director; and Rachel Ramirez, independent journalist for The Confluence.  

Among the white paper’s findings:

• One reason for the decline in coverage has been a relentless firehose of news on other topics that audiences understandably want to know about (e.g., the Iran war); news outlets can produce only so many stories a day, and audiences have only so much time to read or watch the news
• Another reason: newsroom staff cuts, due to fewer consumers paying for news and corporate owners prioritizing profits over the public’s right to know
• News coverage often mirrors what political leaders talk about, and US president Donald Trump in particular talks little about climate change except to deny it’s happening. That denial has emboldened others — in business, in politics, and in media — to downplay the climate threat 
• There are important exceptions to the trend. The Guardian, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and Telemundo, among others, continue to cover the climate story robustly. Every television station in Japan over the next two years will run public service commercials noting that 89% of Japanese people support taking climate action.  And journalists across the Global South generally continue to see climate change as a major story
• Despite the backsliding, internal audience data at newsrooms indicate that the public remains interested in the climate story and that audiences respond when journalists tell the story well
• What’s needed is fresh thinking from journalists about how to tell the climate story, and a commitment from top management that climate coverage matters
• Many journalists do understand that the world faces a climate emergency (that’s the word thousands of scientists deliberately choose), and they’re committed to telling the story. Some of them labor for news organizations that may or may not be doing justice to the climate story; others have struck out on their own to say what needs to be said. 

CCNow hopes this white paper triggers thought and discussion within the news business and beyond about how to give the climate story the coverage it deserves. Please send us your comments and suggestions via editors@coveringclimatenow.org.

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From Us

RSVP: Live from SEJ: The State of Climate Journalism. Join us TODAY, April 16, at 12pm US Eastern Time (11am US Central Time, 16:00h UTC), for a live broadcast from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference in Chicago. We’ll dig into CCNow’s new white paper about the state of climate journalism. Learn more and RSVP.

SEJ happy hour! CCNow and Sentient are co-hosting a happy hour on Friday, April 17, from 5:45–8pm, at Vintage Bar, one block from the conference venue. Join us!

We’re hiring! CCNow is hiring a part-time communications manager (remote). Learn more and apply.

Radar Clima: cómo cubrir el fracking. México ha sido noticia después de que Claudia Sheinbaum propusiese usar esta técnica para reducir la dependencia del gas de Estados Unidos. En la última edición de Radar Clima, nuestro boletín en español para periodistas, te traemos datos clave, recursos, contactos de voces expertas y ángulos de cobertura para reportear esta historia en América Latina y España. Échale un vistazo a las ediciones anteriores y suscríbete para recibir el boletín los miércoles.

WATCH: 2026’s “Super El Niño” and Its Potential Global Impacts. Last week, CCNow and Climate Central explored the science behind the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and how this supercharged climate pattern may push global temperatures up later this year. Watch the recording.

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Noteworthy Stories

‘Demand destruction.’ Since the start of the Iran War, global oil demand has plummeted at a rate “almost unprecedented in its speed and severity.” A new International Energy Agency report projects that, for the first time since the 2009 financial crisis (excluding the pandemic), demand for oil in 2026 will decline. By Verity Ratcliffe at the Financial Times…

Gridlock buster? High-level representatives from at least 50 countries and the EU will gather from April 24–29 for a first-of-its-kind conference in Santa Marta, Colombia to kickstart a unified effort to transition their economies away from fossil fuels. The biggest emitters — US, China, Russia, and India — are not attending, leading some to wonder whether these “middle power” countries will be able to make meaningful progress. By Nina Lakhani for Drilled…

Climate tipping points. While banks regularly consider climate risks in their future projections, J.P. Morgan is one of the first to include assessments of climate tipping points in its financial planning. By Justin Worland for TIME magazine…

California’s ‘climateflation.’ A new report finds that more destructive and frequent wildfires are driving up electricity and home insurance bills for Californians. Without action from state government officials to lower rates and stabilize markets, the report authors warn that costs for consumers “will inexorably rise.” By Todd Woody for Bloomberg Green…

Atlantic current. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which is critical to Earth’s climate system, is at a higher chance of collapse than scientists previously thought, according to new research led by Dr. Valentin Portmann of France’s Inria Centre de recherche Bordeaux Sud-Ouest. By Damian Carrington for The Guardian…

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On the Beat

Conflict of interest? Journalist Lauren Watson interviewed Boston University professor Michelle Amazeen about her recent analysis of Iran war media coverage published by Climate Action Against Disinformation. The war is “our latest reminder of the importance of independent, skeptical coverage of energy policy,” she wrote, “and it makes the commercial ties between newsrooms and fossil-fuel advertisers an urgent public concern.” Read the interview in Columbia Journalism Review.

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Quote of the Week

“The world has just been traumatized by the geopolitical risk of oil and gas. It creates renewed momentum for countries to try to electrify what they can and reduce gas demand to the extent possible.”

– Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, told The Washington Post

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Resources

Growing concern. Ahead of Earth Day, Gallup released its annual poll regarding climate change concern in the US. Forty-four percent of Americans say they are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since Gallup started polling the question in 1992. Views, however, are sharply polarized — only 28% of Republicans attribute global warming to human activity, down from 52% in 2001. Read the report.

Disaster database. Climate Central maintains a database of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that includes maps of previous disasters, areas at risk, details about specific events, and more. Between 1980 and 2026, there have been 431 billion-dollar events that have cost $3.1 trillion and killed 17,370 people.

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Jobs, Etc.

Jobs. High Country News is hiring a Partnerships Editor (remote, western US states). The Raleigh News & Observer is looking for a Reporter to cover climate change and environmental issues (Raleigh, N.C.). McClatchy Media is hiring a Meteorologist (Sacramento, Calf.) Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk is looking for an Assistant Editorial Director (Columbia, Mo.). Climate Central is hiring a Vice President for Business Development (primarily remote). CNN is hiring several weather-related positions, including Senior Editor (Features), a Digital Meteorologist, Weekends, and a Weekend Editor (hybrid; multiple locations). Nexstar Media Group is hiring a Morning Meteorologist (Colorado Springs, Colo.). MPR News is hiring a Chief Meteorologist (Saint Paul, Minn.). The Freedom of the Press Foundation is hiring an Audience Editor (Brooklyn, N.Y. or remote). 

Fellowships. Quanta Magazine is looking for an early-career science journalist for its summer/fall 2026 writing fellowship. Solutions Journalism Network is accepting applications for the second cohort of its Solutions Visuals fellowship; apply by April 24. The Chips Quinn Reporter Fellowship is accepting applications; apply between April 13 and May 13.

Workshop. The Pulitzer Center is accepting applications for its six-week virtual workshop to help climate-focused reporters with little or no video experience turn their reporting into engaging content for TikTok, Instagram, and/or YouTube Shorts; apply by April 24.

Grants. The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism is accepting applications for its 2026 National Fellowship and accompanying grants; apply by April 16. Earth Journalism Network is accepting grant proposals from journalists in Ghana, Mexico, the Philippines, and other coastal countries to report on marine conservation targets; apply by April 21.

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If consumers want to switch to an EV, they’ll need to do it without federal incentives and with scant selection of affordable models.

By Dan Gearino

Over the weekend, on a family trip in central Kentucky, I paid more than $4 per gallon for gasoline for the first time during our current price spike.

The collapse would have catastrophic consequences, plunging Europe into extreme winters and summer droughts