Articles by

Molly Taft

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof

A few years ago, Ketan Joshi read a statistic about artificial intelligence and climate change that caught...

Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos

States across the western US are facing record low snowpack levels in the middle of the winter...

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back the endangerment finding, which underpins the...

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause

Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a...

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past...

What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t

Over the past weekend, when weather models first started forecasting a winter storm that would sweep over...

The AI Boom Will Increase US Carbon Emissions—but It Doesn’t Have To

As the world keeps warming and electricity bills take center stage in national politics, the data center...