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This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Trump administration had a tough week in court, starting with a Monday ruling that could pave the way for states and cities to unlock billions of dollars in revoked clean-energy grants. Back in…

As the Trump administration wages a high-profile attack on the nation’s offshore wind farms, it has also been quietly fighting a brutal battle with renewable energy projects on land. Since President Donald Trump took office nearly a year ago, his administration has announced at least two dozen policy and regulatory…

See more from Canary Media’s " Chart of the Week” column . Texas just hit a huge milestone: It got more electricity from solar than it did from coal last year, a first for the second-biggest state in the country. That’s a big shift from a few years prior. Back in 2020, the Texas grid got just 2% of its…

A debate playing out in Wisconsin underscores just how challenging it is for U.S. states to set policies governing data centers, even as tech giants speed ahead with plans to build the energy-gobbling computing facilities. Wisconsin’s state legislators are eager to pass a law that prevents the data center boom from…

Hyundai Motor Group is building a facility at an existing steel plant in South Korea to test out its technology to produce direct reduced iron before opening its flagship project in Louisiana. Last week, the automaker announced plans for a pilot-scale DRI plant at its Dangjin Steelworks in South Chungcheong…

The mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM Interconnection faces a capacity crunch of titanic proportions as AI computing investment rushes headlong into its 13-state region, home to more than 67 million people. The most recent PJM capacity auctions — where the grid operator pays in advance for power plants to be available…

In some parts of California, the lead state on electric vehicles, utilities are facing a challenge that will eventually spread nationwide: Local grids are struggling to keep up with the electricity demand as more and more drivers switch to EVs. The go-to solution for this type of problem among most utilities is to…

North Carolina’s predominant utility is backing away from a long-held plan to double the size of its largest pumped storage hydropower plant — just as data centers and other voracious energy users threaten to stretch power supplies to their limit. The reversal was tucked away in Duke Energy’s latest long-term…

Sergio Mendez was tired of earning a living by working security in nightclubs. So the 22-year-old resident of Chicago’s Southwest Side decided to make a big change, enrolling in a 10-week program that promised to teach him the fundamental skills needed to pursue a career in the solar industry. “I was just dealing…

The U.S. House just voted to cancel efficiency standards for new manufactured homes — a move that could hit especially hard in the Southeast, where such housing is common and energy insecurity is high. The measure would rescind 2022 criteria for insulation, air sealing, and other energy-saving features in…

This story was originally published by Capital B , a nonprofit newsroom that centers Black voices and experiences. To read more of Adam Mahoney’s work, visit Capital B . In December, on a two-lane road not far from the ACE Basin, a protected ecosystem and wildlife refuge in South Carolina, Paul Black drove past…

A federal judge has ruled that Ørsted can resume the construction of its nearly complete, 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island. The decision on Monday comes after the Trump administration issued stop-work orders to all five of the offshore wind projects under development in the U.S. in…

U.S. carbon emissions increased in 2025, even as clean energy installations surged . Economy-wide emissions rose by 2.4%, according to a new analysis of federal data by the research firm Rhodium Group. This ended a two-year streak of emissions reductions and clocks in as the third-largest emissions increase in the…

The Trump administration is going after gas bans in two California cities. Last week, the federal government sued to block the San Francisco Bay Area’s Morgan Hill and Petaluma from prohibiting the use of fossil gas in new buildings. Both have populations of less than 60,000. The complaint , filed in the U.S.…

In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil and gas fracking thousands of feet underground at high pressure. Last year, the state gave DeepRock permits to drill two more injection wells for pumping such waste underground. The new wells…

Voters worried about rising electricity prices and the onslaught of power-hungry data centers helped Democrats earn a governing trifecta in Virginia last year. Now, as state lawmakers prepare for a breakneck, 60-day legislative session that begins this Wednesday, clean energy is emerging as a key strategy for…

I spent much of 2024 writing about the ambitious plans that U.S. steelmakers had to clean up the coal-reliant industry. But by the start of 2025, it was fast becoming clear that those green-steel dreams were in serious trouble. Under the Biden administration, two big companies had proposed pioneering projects for…

Nearly 10 years after Massachusetts announced plans to buy 1.2 gigawatts of carbon-free hydropower from Canada, the clean electrons are finally set to start flowing into the state. As soon as this Friday, the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line could begin commercial operations. The 145-mile project,…

Out in the fertile yet water-constrained farmlands of California’s western Central Valley, a massive solar, battery, and power grid project that could provide a quarter of the state’s clean energy needs by 2035 has taken a critical step forward. In December, the board of directors of the Westlands Water District,…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday . President Donald Trump's sweeping freeze on offshore wind construction is starting to hurt his own party’s energy ambitions. Just days before Christmas, the Trump administration halted work on all five…