energy

Aerial view of Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant at nigh

Asia-Pacific Images Studio/Getty Images

October 15, 2024

Gas Plants Have a Real Climate Problem. So Do Some Proposed Approaches for Addressing It.

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

AvailableLight/Getty Images

September 23, 2024

Energy Efficiency Home Retrofits Can Protect You During Extreme Temperature Events

Guest Commentary

A woman with a child in a carrier on her back walks through a refugee camp in Somalia, where catastrophic drought has created over a million refugees

Said Yusuf Warsame/EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid/Flickr

March 16, 2023

The Latest IPCC Report Will Make You Sad. And Mad. Don’t Give Up!

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

photo of several large towers supporting electricity transmission lines that stretch high above the camera, with a bright orange sunset in the background

Pok Rie/Pexels

February 21, 2023

A Better Way of Paying for a Reliable Electricity Grid

Guillermo Pereira
Former Contributor

DENNIS SCHROEDER/NREL

July 29, 2022

Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

arbyreed/Flickr

September 24, 2021

Congress Must Provide a Lifeline to Energy Workers and Communities in the $3.5-Trillion Build Back Better Package

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

Peabody Energy

June 16, 2021

The Save Our Future Act Offers Blueprint for Supporting Coal Workers and Communities

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

Tony Webster/Flickr

May 18, 2021

New UCS Research: Utilities’ Uneconomic Coal Use Is Being Called Out in 25 States

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels

February 4, 2021

We Need to Put an End to Selling Utility Customer Debt

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

Antandrus at English Wikipedia

February 4, 2021

California Energy: One Grid Under Too Many Assumptions

Adenike Adeyeye
Former Contributor

Matthew Henry/Unsplash

January 11, 2021

Should the Electric Grid Be Antiracist?

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

public domain

December 10, 2020

Contracts to Burn: How Long-Term Fossil Fuel Contracts and Power Purchase Agreements Lock In Pollution

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

Steven Pisano/Wikimedia

September 11, 2020

Is BP Finally Committing to Ambitious Climate Action–or About to Fool Us Twice? Five Things to Look For in Its Climate Strategy

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik

July 17, 2020

UCS Supports CEJA

Jessica Collingsworth
Former Contributor

April 27, 2020

Oil Industry Ghostwrites Trump’s Deadly Anti-Environmental Policies

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Klaus Eppele/Adobe Stock

April 25, 2020

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Public Health Protections

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Public domain

February 24, 2020

The Real Reason Behind Coal’s Cycling Woes

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

East Boston murals celebrating the community’s immigrant identity.

October 31, 2019

East Boston and Power: An Environmental Justice Community in Transition

UCS Science Network

A chromolithograph print of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago

Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication.

October 31, 2019

The Current War: Why Did Westinghouse (AC) Beat Edison (DC)?

Mark Specht
Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst

September 17, 2019

Here Is Why State Regulators Are Rejecting Utility Resource Plans

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

Photo: Christian Naenny/Flickr

July 31, 2019

Why Berkeley Banned Natural Gas in New Buildings

Mark Specht
Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst

Photo: Paula Garcia

June 20, 2019

Offshore Wind in the US: Scale, Jobs and Innovation

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

Jose Jimenez Tirado / Getty Images file

May 23, 2019

PREPA’s Agreement is Terrible for Puerto Rico

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

February 26, 2019

The Energy Burden: How Bad is it and How to Make it Less Bad.

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor