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Southern California clean-heat rule survives key legal challenge
Southern California’s landmark rule to slash emissions from industrial heating sources just notched a major victory in court. The region has some of the worst air quality in the U.S., and the gas-fueled boilers and water heaters that serve its factories and large buildings are a key culprit. In 2024, air quality…
Can the US harness old oil and gas wells to produce geothermal energy?
As states seek out much-needed supplies of clean, reliable energy, some are looking to an unconventional source: abandoned oil and gas wells harnessed for geothermal heat. Millions of inactive wells are littered across the United States , the relics of earlier eras of fossil fuel production. A large number of the…
Geothermal energy gets boost from new coalition of Western governors
America’s ambitions to harness geothermal energy just keep getting bigger. On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Mountain West governors unveiled an initiative to unlock an estimated 200 gigawatts of clean, always-on energy by tapping into the region’s underground heat. That much power would represent a 50-fold…
7 states sue to stop Trump’s offshore wind deal with TotalEnergies
New York and six other Democratic-led states are challenging the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to pay private energy firms to abandon their U.S. offshore wind projects. On Tuesday, the coalition of blue states sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its March agreement with French oil giant…
Energy-hungry aluminum plant is swept up in Oklahoma governor’s race
A power-hungry aluminum smelter planned in Oklahoma is facing a new legal challenge that aims to stop the massive project in its tracks. Last week, Oklahoma’s attorney general sued to block Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Century Aluminum from building the $4 billion facility, which is slated to more than double…
Norwegian startup raises $6M to fix this sneaky source of energy waste
Mikal Løvik began his career in Norway’s offshore oil and gas industry, where he noticed a big but largely hidden source of energy waste: electric heating cables. Service vessels and drilling rigs used the cables to prevent equipment from freezing, but they always ran on full blast, even when it wasn’t necessary to…
A year after US Steel was sold, communities push for clean investment
A year ago this month, Japan’s Nippon Steel acquired U.S. Steel, promising to plow $14 billion into America’s legendary but long-declining steel industry. The hard-fought deal was controversial and highly politicized . But for residents in historic steel communities, like those in northwest Indiana, the foreign…
How an NYC high-rise is keeping cool with geothermal energy
NEW YORK CITY — Manhattan is teeming with skyscrapers that seem to reach into the clouds. But a gleaming commercial building near the Hudson River is more impressive for how it stretches down into the dirt. Beneath the floors of 555 Greenwich St. are 68 geothermal energy piles that run nearly 120 feet deep, dodging…
Quaise Energy raises $134M to fuel superhot geothermal ambitions
Startup Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to advance its first superhot geothermal power plant in central Oregon. On Tuesday, the Houston-based company announced the first tranche of its Series B financing round, which brings the firm’s total funding to $230 million. Quaise is developing a 50-megawatt plant near…