This April 5 local news story pokes around a promise from General Motors and the American branch of Honda to collaborate on producing electric cars that can sell for around $30000.
Are environmental-justice commitments too onerous or too complex? This February 3 investigation shows how federal justice-tinged money can work its way through a tightly populated American state.
On January 25, the New York Times dug into plans by General Motors, Toyota and Ford to build and operate factories for electric vehicles and their batteries in the United States' manufacturing corridor.
Illinois' government made policy while the political sun shines on renewable targets. What happens next? (This image comes from the Chicago Sun-Times.)
This September, on a sunny late summer morning in Chicago, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a comprehensive piece of environmental legislation called the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). Standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, just outside the world-famous Shedd Aquarium, Pritzker heralded the bill as a major...
This October 28 feature holds a wind project bound for Texas up to the light - and sees too much torpor in the progress of the United States' grid updating. (Do you see a theme here?)
This October 18 story details the technology that won a Novi, Michigan startup funding from a group including Breakthrough Energy Ventures for a less flammable version of a car battery.
This June 10 article summarizes a deal between a utility and a public service commission through which Detroit and other communities can expect to draw on community solar.
Workers, investors and policymakers peer into the Gulf Coast's future. (Courtesy the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.)
Some have tried and none have managed to sync America’s clean energy ambitions with its fossil-based heritage through federal policy. The current administration is trying in many industries, including offshore wind manufacturing. That warrants a look at the Gulf Coast. Known as a longtime oil and gas cluster, the Gulf...
