Canary Media

We are a nonprofit journalism organization that focuses on documenting the shift to a decarbonized economy and society. Our main emphasis is on the changes happening in key areas such as energy production, transportation, industry, and building practices.

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Senate Republicans eye protecting clean energy in “big, beautiful…

1 day ago | canarymedia.com | Kathryn Krawczyk

Senators hint at extending the House’s 60-day phaseout of clean energy tax credits and eye protecting hydrogen, wind, and geothermal incentives. This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Inflation Reduction Act has jump-started hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy and manufacturing development — and most of its benefits have gone to regions represented in Congress by Republicans.
California’s successful virtual power plant program faces big budget…

2 days ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

Companies tapping smart thermostats and solar-charged home batteries to help the grid say funding cuts could undermine their efforts and cost customers. California’s biggest virtual power plant is facing over $100 million in funding cuts due to the state’s ongoing budget crisis, threatening the long-term viability of a program that can act as a crucial release valve for the state’s overburdened power grid.
Massachusetts grid breakthrough could benefit customers while…

3 days ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

The state’s regulators and utilities are working out a mutually beneficial way to share the costs of the grid upgrades required to build more community solar. A pesky question has long stalled efforts to expand U.S. power grids in the face of growing demand and surging renewable energy: Who should pay for the upgrades? An under-the-radar breakthrough in Massachusetts may finally provide a template for answering that question.
Biden’s climate-smart ag program was better than nothing. Trump…

3 days ago | canarymedia.com | Michael Grunwald

In a climate-dumb move, the Trump administration ended a flawed but necessary program aiming to lower agricultural emissions. We can still draw useful lessons from it. The “Eating the Earth” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in.
In N.C., all eyes on Senator Tillis as IRA tax credits hang in balance

5 days ago | canarymedia.com | Elizabeth Ouzts

North Carolina will lose big if cuts to clean energy incentives become law. Will Tillis, on record against “wholesale repeal” of the credits, go to bat for his state? Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to kill nearly every federal tax credit there is to support the clean energy transition, gobsmacked advocates and industry leaders in solar, wind, and electric vehicles are looking desperately to the Senate to amend it.
Trump admin cuts $3.7B for industrial decarbonization and carbon…

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

The decision will devastate ambitious efforts to cut emissions from heavy industry ranging from food production to chemicals. The Department of Energy announced Friday that it is canceling over $3.7 billion in funding for projects that would cut carbon emissions and toxic air pollution from power plants and industrial sites, ranging from cement kilns to ketchup-processing plants.
Texas’ anti-renewable energy bills are quietly dying

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Kathryn Krawczyk

Three bills that would’ve hurt solar and wind development are on track to expire as some Republicans and business groups show support for renewables. This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Over the past few months, the Texas Senate passed three bills that could’ve devastated the state’s nation-leading renewable energy rollout — but clean energy appears to have dodged the bullet.
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.
Electrifying this affordable housing complex made financial sense

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Alison F. Takemura

In Sacramento, California, property owner BRIDGE Housing moved ahead with a heat-pump-plus retrofit designed to save both itself and its residents money. Canary Media’s “Electrified Life” column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals and building owners can do to shift to clean electric power. An affordable housing complex for older adults in Sacramento, California, boasts some enticing features.
A new, low-carbon way to make chemicals, without the big, dirty…

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

Startup OCOchem has built factory-assembled “artificial photosynthesis” cells to make formate, a widely used chemical now produced with fossil fuels. The global chemicals industry is big, and it’s dirty. Chemical plants consume lots of fossil fuels, both to power the high-temperature, high-pressure processes involved and often as a feedstock for the chemicals produced. And to maximize production, those plants are typically built to be as large as possible.