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.

Transportation

Driving less may be as easy as riding a bike — a big electric one

Cargo e-bikes are catching on and could curb U.S. car emissions. Canary Media took a test ride to learn more about this emerging form of transportation.

By Maria Gallucci . 21 June 2023
Carbon capture

Inside Charm Industrial’s multimillion-dollar bid to remove CO2 with plants

The high-flying startup claims to have locked away more carbon than any other venture by turning plant waste into crude-like oil and injecting it underground.

By Maria Gallucci . 19 June 2023
Video

Video: Canary hits the airwaves to chat about hydrogen fuel-cell buses

Reporter Maria Gallucci joins The Weather Channel to discuss a first-of-a-kind project that will turn an East Coast bus depot into a green hydrogen hub.

By Maria Gallucci . 15 June 2023
Geothermal

Why this NYC apartment complex will use a giant underground heat pump

Join our reporter as she steps inside the muddy construction site at 1 Java Street to learn the benefits and barriers of harnessing the earth's heat to decarbonize buildings.

By Maria Gallucci . 12 June 2023
Air travel

Startup lands $23M to upcycle CO2 into plane fuel

OXCCU raised the Series A from investors including United Airlines, one of many airlines investing in "sustainable aviation fuel" as pressure to curb emissions mounts.

By Maria Gallucci . 7 June 2023
Clean energy manufacturing

US wind manufacturing makes a comeback thanks to Inflation Reduction Act

Buoyed by tax credits and better market conditions, wind turbine manufacturers are reopening and expanding factories nationwide.

By Maria Gallucci . 5 June 2023
Politics

3 ways Minnesota is crushing it on climate action

The Midwestern state has passed a barrage of policies in recent days and months meant to cut carbon emissions from the state's buildings, cars and electricity system.

By Maria Gallucci . 24 May 2023
Public transit

This East Coast bus depot will make its own carbon-free fuel

The project, located in Maryland's most populous county, will use a solar microgrid to produce enough "green" hydrogen for 13 new fuel-cell buses.

By Maria Gallucci . 18 May 2023
Clean industry

An Alabama plant is now churning out low-carbon concrete

CarbonBuilt kicked off production with its novel tech, which it claims can reduce overall CO2 emissions from concrete-making by 70 to 100 percent.

By Maria Gallucci . 18 May 2023
Fossil fuels

Vermont is moving from fuel oil to clean heat

The state legislature in Vermont overruled the governor’s veto to pass a law that will curb greenhouse gas emissions from heating homes and other buildings.

By Maria Gallucci . 16 May 2023