Author: CleanTechnica

There is a bumper sticker that says, “What if our schools had all the money they need to educate our children but the military had to hold a bake sale to buy new weapons?” The Steelton–Highspire School District near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been struggling with budget challenges for years. Recently, it installed 3500 solar panels […]

Smoke from wildland fires, which have been burning in the Canadian province of Quebec for weeks, has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and darkened skies in southwestern Europe. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image in the morning (11:10 Universal Time) on June 26, 2023. At the time, smoke drifted […]

Wildfire smoke from Canadian wildfires led to air quality alerts for the second time in June across much of New York. Max Zhang is a professor of engineering at Cornell University with a focus on air pollution and interactions between energy and the environment. He says we’ve seen wildfire smoke pollution in New York before, […]

DOE Issues Notice of Intent to Accelerate Domestic Manufacturing of Electrified Vehicles as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda.

I’ve gotten to ride a few electric bikes in my life, but this one is definitely the most fun I have ever tried. The Aventon Sinch is a cool, foldable e-bike with fat tires and a few great features. When I got on the Aventon bike for the first time on the way home from […]

Leah Ellis, the founder of Sublime Systems, has found a way to displace the massive carbon emissions from making cement using electricity.

A report from the World Bank this week urges nations to redirect the money from subsidy programs to fighting global heating.

In 2010, a study by Berkeley Lab using data from NASA estimated that using “cool roof ” techniques on the roofs and pavement of all cities in the northern hemisphere could have a one-time effect of removing more than 44 billion tons of carbon dioxide — 24 billion tons from roofs and 20 billion tons […]

More and more automakers are joining the switch from CCS Type 1 adapters to the Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS) plug, most recently including Rivian. According to a recent announcement, Rivian will make its next vehicle generation with the NACS plug, joining Ford and GM and putting even more pressure on other automakers. A Tesla […]

The triangular shape of the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania is unique to the NASCAR circuit, and that’s not the only interesting feature of stock car racing’s “Tricky Triangle.” Pocono Raceway has been making renewable energy news since 2010, when it became the first sports venue in the US to install a utility scale solar array […]