President Biden salutes after delivering a speech about his foreign policy achievements at the State Department on Jan. 13, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
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President Biden tours the Museu da Amazonia, a rainforest preserve in Manaus, Brazil, on Nov. 17, 2024, before heading to Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Summit. Saul Loeb/AFP hide caption
Biden marks his climate legacy during Amazon visit, asserting 'nobody' can reverse it
Tuesday
An oil pump jack stands near a field of wind turbines in Nolan, Texas, on Oct. 4. Oil companies are under pressure to pivot more swiftly toward renewable energy. Here's one reason why that's not happening so quickly: It's still incredibly lucrative to sell oil. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
Making oil is more profitable than saving the planet. These numbers tell the story
Monday
A section of aluminium coils from one of Helion's fusion machines. The company hopes its next-generation Polaris system will produce more electricity than it consumes. Geoff Brumfiel/NPR hide caption
Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?
Tuesday
Wind turbines, of the Block Island Wind Farm, tower over the water on October 14, 2016 off the shores of Block Island, Rhode Island. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Biden's offshore wind plan could create thousands of jobs, but challenges remain
Wednesday
It took about a decade to get the Ku'ia Solar plant in Lahaina, Maui up and running. Hawaii's utility commissioners hope that new "performance-based regulation" will better incentivize the monopoly utility to get solar plants like this onto the grid more quickly. Julia Simon for NPR hide caption
A Clean Energy Future: How Hawaii Is Sparking The Push
Wednesday
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media about the cruise industry during a press conference at PortMiami in April. DeSantis faces criticism for failing to do all he could on Florida's biggest environmental threat: climate change. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Ron DeSantis Pushes Coastal 'Resilience' While Doing Little To Tackle Climate Change
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Ron DeSantis Pushes Coastal 'Resilience' While Doing Little To Tackle Climate Change
Wednesday
Idaho Power says it already gets nearly half its energy from hydroelectric dams such as the Swan Falls Dam on the Snake River, just south of Boise. The utility plans to phase out its use of coal power plants. Education Images/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Kelp plants grow on a 30-foot-long, white PVC pole suspended in the water. If this is successful, instead of just one row, there would be a whole platform, hundreds of meters across and hundreds of meters deep, full of kelp plants. Courtesy of David Ginsburg/Wrigley Institute hide caption
Scientists Hope To Farm The Biofuel Of The Future In The Pacific Ocean
Wednesday
Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, flies above Giza Pyramids as it finishes its penultimate flight, landing in Egypt on Wednesday. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
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U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz takes part in a press conference at the end of the 2015 meeting of the International Energy Agency Governing Board on Nov. 18, 2015 in Paris. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Says Government Can Help Clean Energy Innovation
Thursday
Vera Cole is president of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association, a group arguing against proposed rules in Pennsylvania that would put stricter limits on how much grid-connected solar power homeowners can produce on their property. Jeff Brady/NPR hide caption
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The new rules' would reduce harmful emissions, the EPA says. David Paul Morris/Getty Images hide caption
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Greenpeace's annual report ranks Internet companies based on the efficiency of their cloud facilities. szaz/iStockphoto.com hide caption