The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday issued guidance on working with its state counterparts to facilitate the use of existing highway rights of way for building electric transmission lines. The memo encourages state transportation departments to consider not just transmission, but also renewable energy, broadband internet expansion, electric vehicle...

New York officials on Monday held the first of three public hearings as they prepare the first annual report of statewide greenhouse gas emissions required by the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is preparing the report to be issued this...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) recommends an expanded role for federal leadership in transmission planning. Efforts to predict what the grid of the future will look like have a poor track record, according to a new report from NASEM. So rather than...

The economic slowdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic caused U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to drop 9% in 2020, putting the country temporarily on track with the Paris Agreement pledge of at least a 26% cut by 2025, according to the 2021 Sustainable Energy Factbook, released Thursday by the Business Council...

The focus on technology in many roadmaps for the transition to a carbon-free economy ignores the inevitable social impacts of the changes, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) said in a report last week. To succeed, the report argues, the U.S. transition must incorporate "the development and...

California may have the most electric vehicles in the nation (803,816), but Vermont has the most DC fast chargers per 100,000 residents (36.5) and Ohio offers some of the highest incentives ($50,000 to $2 million) to help companies trade in their diesel 18-wheelers for electric trucks. These facts and figures...

Biomass is more valuable for its carbon-capture ability than for its energy production, according to a new global roadmap of strategies to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The study released last month by the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF), an annual gathering hosted by the government of Japan since...

Customers were at the center of a panel discussion last week that highlighted what can happen when new state climate laws conflict with those currently governing fossil fuels. While people are working to address those policy conflicts, Dale Bryk, senior fellow for energy and the environment at Regional Plan Association,...

A group of former FERC chairs during a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday said the commission should issue new transmission planning rules to help decarbonize the U.S. and provide resilience and energy security. Pointing to the success of previous landmark FERC orders, the former chairs said that while the specifics...

In the race to decarbonize the transportation sector, focusing on fleet vehicles, which account for only 3% of registered vehicles in the country, might seem insignificant. But a report by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) says that a successful transition of fleets will influence the rest of the transportation sector.