Let There Be Sunlight: Switch to solar keeps historic Appalachian coal camp on energy map
Benham, Ky—Black rock buried thousands of feet under the Cumberland Mountains might have put Benham on the energy map, but sunlight beaming from 93 million...
Category: climate change
Curbing the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is the global challenge of the 21st century. Most energy and environmental policy take these heat-trapping gases into account. Fossil fuel-fired power plants, buildings and the transportation sector are the main emitters but agriculture, landfills and other sectors are also of concern.
Plugged In: Hyattsville, Md., police officer advances electric vehicles
WASHINGTON—Richard Hartnett’s official title at the Hyattsville Police Department might be sergeant, but it could just as easily be chief “EV”angelist. He has put his...
Woman of the Cloth: Diverting fabric from landfills one pair of pants at a time
WASHINGTON—The average American tosses upward of 70 pounds of T-shirts, jeans, sweaters and towels into the garbage. Each year. Do the math in the nation’s...