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The Growth of Grid-Scale Battery Storage in America, Explained
How U.S. grid-scale battery capacity grew by 900% in 3 years
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A fun milestone and new video
An update on the first 6 months of making videos about climate change
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The Remarkable Growth of Solar Power, in 7 Charts
Solar's growth is truly wild.
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How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia
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I Measured the Pollution From My Gas Stove. It Was Bad.
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A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy
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The Loophole That Made Cars in America So Big
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The Man Trying to Kill America's Offshore Wind Industry
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The Decline of Coal Power in Every State, Visualized
Coal has been on the decline for more than a decade in America. But in some states it's fading faster than others.
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The Problem With Big Electric Trucks and SUVs
Big EVs are worse for the environment than small EVs. Here's why.
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How Paris Is Taking Back Its Streets From Cars
Mayor Anne Hidalgo is waging "a war on cars." And she's winning.
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The Loophole That Made Cars in America So Big
SUVs dominate the roads today. Here's why.
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How Companies Like Shell and Delta Use Carbon Offsets to Pollute More
Junk offsets, weird in-flight napkins, and the lies behind many corporate net-zero plans
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A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy
Transitioning to clean energy would reduce the volume and harm of mining dramatically
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Last Week's Climate News — 3/27/23
Here's what happened last week
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Deeply researched stories about the politics of climate change
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