Julia Simon

1 day ago | kpbs.org | Julia Simon

VIENNA – Vienna's city hall, with its stone towers and gargoyles, often reminds visitors of another neo-gothic building, says city council member Nina Abrahamczik.  "Children who come with the school classes are like, 'Oh, it looks like Hogwarts,'" she says. But Abrahamczik, who heads the city's climate and environment committee, says this building has something Hogwarts doesn't: solar panels.

2 weeks ago | envirolink.org | Julia Simon

From NPRPresident Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and environmental groups say it could harm a fragile ecosystem. (Image credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research)

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Julia Simon

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create "a robust domestic supply for critical minerals."There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.

3 weeks ago | opb.org | Julia Simon |Jeongyoon Han

The Trump administration is halting an offshore wind project in New York. Energy experts worry that the U.S. will fall behind other countries with booming offshore wind, like the United Kingdom. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction.

3 weeks ago | news.wfsu.org | Julia Simon |Jeongyoon Han

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction. President Trump, a longtime critic of wind energy, issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects, one of his first executive orders upon returning to the White House.