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North Carolina food bank gets microgrid backup for future storms

Two years ago this week, Hurricane Helene’s floods nearly wiped out the little downtown of Marshall, North Carolina, about 20 miles north of Asheville. Situated along the French Broad River, an art gallery, coffee shop, restaurant, and other beloved community spaces were left wit

Brief canarymedia.com · 5d ago · 1 min
Advanced grid tech gets a $1.9B DOE boost

For years now, grid experts have been trying to get utilities to deploy advanced transmission technologies that can squeeze more capacity out of overstressed U.S. power grids. On Thursday, the Trump administration put a $1.9 billion down payment on 31 projects that will help grea

Brief canarymedia.com · 11d ago · 1 min
Foreign Fishing Fleets Are Robbing West African Countries of Key Nutrients

Seafood isn’t just a key source of protein and calories; it’s also where millions around the world get essential vitamins and minerals needed to build tissue, fight infections and grow. Yet, as modern mechanized fishing fleets plunder global waters, populations in low-income coun

Brief insideclimatenews.org · 12d ago · 1 min
A new fleet of electric school buses hits New York City streets

NEW YORK CITY — School districts nationwide are grappling with record diesel prices this fall as they resume shuttling students back and forth. But filling up isn’t a problem for some of the newest buses in New York City. That’s because these 10 long, yellow vehicles plug into th

Brief canarymedia.com · 13d ago · 1 min

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Final ‘Grandmother’ Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days.  Activists in Lochiel said at

insideclimatenews.org · 3h ago
Supreme Court Weighs Landmark Climate Deception Case Against Oil Companies

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims seek potentially billions of dollars in damages to help pay the costs

insideclimatenews.org · 3h ago
US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits

How court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state levelThe US supreme court began its new nine-month term hearing arguments on Monday in a major case in which big oil companies attempted to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits th

theguardian.com · 4h ago
A storm may be brewing in the Gulf

And in the Pacific, Super Typhoon Choi-wan is the planet's eighth Category 5 as another potential powerhouse, Koguma, begins organizing.

yaleclimateconnections.org · 4h ago
Virginia’s new energy plan: Make the AI boom work for — not against — us

For well over a year, the twin problems of rising utility bills and soaring electric demand spurred by the AI boom have consumed the energy policy debate in Virginia, the data center capital of the world. Clean energy foes — mostly Republicans — say the state’s landmark zero-car

canarymedia.com · 6h ago
New York Is Running Out of Room for Its Trash

New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much of the city’s garbage are filling up fast.  More than two-thirds of the city’s

insideclimatenews.org · 15h ago

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