Dan McCarthy

Township Valley

Editor at Canary Media

Editing stories about the energy transition @canarymediainc

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Chart: US steelmaking is slowly getting cleaner

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

None of the new steel and ironmaking capacity planned for the U.S. is coal-fired — but old, dirty units aren’t going anywhere, either. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. The future of steel and ironmaking in the U.S. is poised to get cleaner — so long as the country can let go of the industry’s dirty past.
Chart: A quarter of cars sold in 2025 will be battery-powered

2 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

The global outlook is solid for EV and plug-in hybrid adoption, even as Trump’s trade and policy plans threaten to stifle growth in the U.S. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. Despite challenges in key markets like the U.S., the global shift to battery-powered vehicles is moving along. Last year, more than one in five new cars sold worldwide were either fully electric or a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV), per a new International Energy Agency report.
Geothermal and nuclear could lose big under GOP tax proposal

3 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

The House Republicans’ budget proposal would gut Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. Two of the GOP’s favorite energy sources could suffer. This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The House Ways and Means budget proposal would gut the Inflation Reduction Act and slow the rollout of solar, wind, and storage. It’d crimp EV adoption and crush clean-energy manufacturing.
Geothermal and nuclear could lose big under GOP tax proposal

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The House Ways and Means budget proposal would gut the Inflation Reduction Act and slow the rollout of solar, wind, and storage. It’d crimp EV adoption and crush clean-energy manufacturing. Energy costs and carbon emissions would rise. Green hydrogen would remain forever a whisper in the wind, even after so much screaming about the arcane rules governing its incentives.
Chart: Republicans take aim at clean energy boom benefiting GOP most

3 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed a rush of investment in Republican-represented districts. Now, the GOP is proposing to effectively repeal the law. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. House Republicans introduced legislation on Monday that would gut the Inflation Reduction Act.
Chart: Republicans take aim at clean energy boom benefiting GOP most

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column. House Republicans introduced legislation on Monday that would gut the Inflation Reduction Act. If the proposed rules become law, it will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions — and threaten hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of economic development in regions represented in Congress by Republicans.
Chart: Tesla is losing its grip on EV buyers in the US

4 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Tesla is still by far the biggest name in U.S. electric vehicles, but its sales are slipping amid competition and blowback to Elon Musk’s political antics. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. For years, Tesla has been the defining EV brand in not only the U.S. but the world. That’s changing. The company’s iron grip on the U.S. EV sector began to loosen back in 2023 as competition picked up.
Tesla is losing its grip on EV buyers in the US

4 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column. For years, Tesla has been the defining EV brand in not only the U.S. but the world. That’s changing. The company’s iron grip on the U.S. EV sector began to loosen back in 2023 as competition picked up. As of the first quarter of this year, amid CEO Elon Musk’s controversial political activities, its market share has dropped to a new low. There’s no single explanation for Tesla’s slide, which comes even as EV sales in the U.S. rise.
Chart: Clean energy dominated global power construction in 2024

1 month ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

But emissions from the power sector still ticked up last year amid rising demand and more fossil-fuel use. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. Clean energy is the most popular form of energy in the world. By a long shot. More than 90% of the new energy capacity built worldwide last year was clean, per data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). That’s a new high watermark for solar, wind, and other renewable energy resources.
Chart: Trump is killing the country’s clean-energy manufacturing…

1 month ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

In the first three months of this year, firms canceled nearly $8 billion worth of U.S. clean energy projects, mostly factories, in a dramatic turn from the Biden era. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. President Donald Trump’s attacks on federal climate policy and his supply-chain-scrambling tariffs are taking a toll on the clean-energy manufacturing boom.