by April Wendling | Jan 13, 2020 | Energy Futures, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Opinion/Editorial
By Jonah Messinger For two nights in August 2020, rolling blackouts shut off electricity to hundreds of thousands of California residents against the backdrop of a dreaded pandemic, a blistering heatwave, and a horrendous forest fire season that devastated the state....
by Tony Mancuso | Dec 12, 2019 | Climate Change, Energy Futures, Opinion/Editorial
By Charlee Thompson It has finally arrived! The talk of the village for the past month is at last in Sita’s hands. The women in her Nepalese village are excited to receive this “gift” from the United States government — a new electric cookstove,...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 23, 2019 | Energy Futures, Environmental Justice
We've Got the (Green) Power As I drive down Interstate 57 south from Chicago, a flash catches my eye: red lights. At first, a few. Then more in the distance. Click Here By Nidhi Shastri Looming in front of me is a massive field of wind power. Each light sits...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 22, 2019 | Energy Futures
Scrubbing the Skies Is clean coal fact or fantasy? Click Here By Zack Fishman For more than half of its 150-year history, the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois has relied heavily on Abbott Power Plant for on-site electricity and steam generation....
