Carrie Klein

1 week ago | heraldpalladium.com | Carrie Klein

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1 week ago | michiganadvance.com | Carrie Klein

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The loss of federal tax credits for rooftop solar could wreck the business that Allan O’Shea has built in Michigan. O’Shea, who runs his company along with his wife and sons, has been selling solar panels since the 1990s.

2 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Carrie Klein

The loss of federal tax credits for rooftop solar could wreck the business that Allan O’Shea has built in Michigan. O’Shea, who runs his company along with his wife and sons, has been selling solar panels since the 1990s. He’s witnessed the growing popularity of rooftop solar in the state, which accounted for 19 percent of the state’s total solar power in 2023. Across the nation, residential solar has continually set records for new installations, growing every year for the past five years.

3 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Carrie Klein

Minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper are essential to building clean energy technology. Without them, there can be no solar panels, no electric vehicles, no wind turbines and no batteries. As more sectors and countries invest in renewable energy and electric vehicles, along with artificial intelligence and data centers, the global appetite for these critical minerals has skyrocketed—and it’s only predicted to keep growing.

3 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Marianne Lavelle |Carrie Klein

The newest player on the U.S. coal scene, Core Natural Resources, had good news and bad news for investors when it announced its results for the start of the year. The company missed Wall Street expectations with its net loss of $69 million, which it attributed mostly to birth pains: the costs of the January merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy that created Core.