Emissions reduction

Clean industry

Chart: Heavy industry is the world’s biggest decarbonization challenge

The production of oil and gas, cement, steel, and other industrial products is enormously polluting. Decarbonizing these sectors will take a while.

By Dan McCarthy . 25 October 2024

Electric vehicles

Electric trucks could handle millions of short-haul routes across North America

Half of U.S. truck routes cover less than 100 miles. Recent road tests of a bevy of battery-powered trucks show they're ready to take over.

By Jeff St. John . 23 September 2021
Corporate procurement

Newsletter: Big Tech is thinking hard about how — and where — to clean up the grid

Google and Microsoft face a raft of complexities as they choose how to invest their prodigious clean-energy budgets.

By Julian Spector . 23 September 2021
Corporate procurement

Should Google and Microsoft focus on sourcing their own 100% clean power or cleaning up the dirtiest grids?

Major companies are spending billions on clean energy. New measurement tools can help them get the most climate impact from their investments.

By Jeff St. John . 22 September 2021
EV charging

Time shift: How to make EV charging as clean as possible

WattTime data helps EVs charge with lower-carbon power. But the rates and incentives to encourage these cleaner choices are still being developed.

By Jeff St. John . 8 September 2021
Fossil fuels

Newsletter: Cash for clunkers, coal edition

Big banks are looking to profit from coal plant retirements.

By Julian Spector . 8 September 2021
Climate crisis

Carbon offset markets aren’t working. A new private-sector reform movement aims to make them better

Will this reboot spur real reductions in carbon emissions — or just usher in another wave of corporate greenwashing?

By Jason Deign . 29 July 2021
Guest essay

How to green the steel industry? Start with steel buyers

As we push to decarbonize heavy industry, it helps to start with an industry's customers.

By Jenny Chu . 23 July 2021
Solar

Newsletter: Nature abhors a vacuum, carbon accounting edition

Startups are jumping in to fill a policy gap when it comes to business-sector carbon tracking.

By Julian Spector . 21 July 2021
Clean industry

Carbon accounting is hard. These startups want to make it easier

In the absence of policy, can the corporate community decarbonize itself?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 20 July 2021
Climate crisis

How do you know if a climate policy is good? Here’s the test

Clean electrification at warp speed for the next decade is the most important thing of all.

By David Roberts . 9 July 2021