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How electricity deepens the South's racial divide
Nationwide protests over racial injustice in recent weeks are stirring a fight against a deep-rooted energy gap in U.S. households.
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Kristi E. Swartz, E&E News reporter
Nationwide protests over racial injustice in recent weeks are stirring a fight against a deep-rooted energy gap in U.S. households.
For the first time in a decade, the grid operator for much of the central United States has put forward a long-range transmission road map calling for tens of billions of dollars in new projects to help states and utilities across the region boost renewables and reach their climate goals.
By Jeffrey Tomich in Energywire
There's a new weapon in legal cases against large emitters: scientific studies that show the links between a carbon source and climate impacts like rising seas. Here's how energy companies are trying to discredit the researchers.
By Maxine Joselow in Climatewire
For the first time in a decade, the grid operator for much of the central United States has put forward a long-range transmission road map calling for tens of billions of dollars in new projects to help states and utilities across the region boost renewables and reach their climate goals.
By Jeffrey Tomich in Energywire
There's a new weapon in legal cases against large emitters: scientific studies that show the links between a carbon source and climate impacts like rising seas. Here's how energy companies are trying to discredit the researchers.
By Maxine Joselow in Climatewire