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Puerto Rico: For Real Resilience, Go Renewable
Puerto Ricans are facing new and ongoing threats to health, safety, and the economy, including those that stem from the spread of COVID-19. The deadly…
How to Retire Early: Making Accelerated Coal Phaseout Feasible and Just
This report estimates that replacing the entire fleet of global coal plants with clean energy plus battery storage could be done at a net annual savings as early as 2022. The rapidly declining costs of renewables push net annual savings to $105 billion in 2025—before considering coal’s dire health, climate, and environmental impacts, or accounting for the social and environmental benefits of reducing pollutants.
A Blue-Sky Vision: Clean Energy and Mobility in India’s Recovery
This article was co-authored by Jagabanta Ningthoujam. We at Rocky Mountain Institute have been working in India for the past five years, supporting government and…
California Should Go All-Electric in New Construction—State’s Largest Utility Agrees
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), California’s largest combined gas and electric utility, became the first dual-fuel utility in the country to formally support ending…