Maria Gallucci

Maria Gallucci

Senior Reporter .

Maria Gallucci is a senior reporter at Canary Media, where she covers efforts to electrify transportation, decarbonize heavy industries and develop emerging clean energy technologies like offshore wind, advanced geothermal and carbon dioxide removal.

She was previously a reporter or contributing writer for publications including Grist, IEEE Spectrum, Inside Climate News, Yale Environment 360 and newspapers in Mexico City. Her reporting has taken her across the Americas and inside cargo ships, power plants, concrete factories and grease-gathering trucks. She hails from Ohio and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Carbon capture

Ebb Carbon wants to pull CO2 from the sky with electricity and seawater

The California startup is operating a first-of-a-kind system at a Pacific coast lab to bring more scientific certainty to nascent ocean carbon removal.

By Maria Gallucci . 21 August 2023
Carbon capture

US announces first winners in $3.5B carbon removal program

Two direct air capture facilities along the U.S. Gulf Coast will receive federal funding to try to pull millions of metric tons of CO2 from the sky.

By Maria Gallucci . 11 August 2023
Clean industry

New California rule will cut carbon from baking Cheetos, chips and more

Commercial food manufacturers use a lot of fossil gas. A first-of-its-kind rule in greater Los Angeles will start to change that in 2027.

By Maria Gallucci . 8 August 2023
Air travel

The first hydrogen-powered planes are taking flight

Aircraft retrofitted with hydrogen fuel cells could slash CO2 emissions from small planes — and potentially pave the way for hydrogen jets, new study shows.

By Maria Gallucci . 2 August 2023
Nuclear

Vogtle 3 nuclear reactor is finally, seriously — for real — online

The beleaguered project is the first U.S. nuclear reactor built in three decades. It comes after six years of delays and a final price tag of over $30 billion.

By Maria Gallucci . 31 July 2023
Solar

Can America's canals double as solar farms?

Studies show that putting solar panels over waterways could boost clean energy and conserve water. The first U.S. pilot project is getting underway in California.

By Maria Gallucci . 26 July 2023
Wind

Maine to go all in on offshore wind

State lawmakers are expected to pass legislation that boosts floating offshore wind projects in the Gulf of Maine as the fledgling U.S. industry hits a growth spurt.

By Maria Gallucci . 25 July 2023
Liquefied natural gas

Gas developer hits brakes on hotly contested LNG terminal

Nopetro Energy says it's "no longer pursuing" a proposed liquefied natural gas project in Florida. Residents opposed plans to build the facility on their shores.

By Maria Gallucci . 21 July 2023
Air travel

This new factory will turn CO2 into sustainable jet fuel

Startup Twelve broke ground on a commercial-scale facility in Washington state, which it says will be the first in the country to make sustainable aviation fuel from CO2.

By Maria Gallucci . 20 July 2023
Geothermal

Startup claims breakthrough in turning the earth's heat into clean power

Fervo Energy, an enhanced geothermal company, says its pilot site in Nevada shows it’s possible to produce “24/7 carbon-free energy” in new geographies.

By Maria Gallucci . 18 July 2023