green energy

Bit Digital, a sustainability-focused generator of digital assets and the largest bitcoin miner on the NASDAQ, recently launched a mining center in Buffalo, New York, and is working toward it using 100% sustainable power. The facility, located in an old coal factory, houses thousands of computers powered by hydroelectricity and is part of the larger trend of the crypto industry...

Why bother making the brightest white paint possible? Paint a house this color and it will reflect more sunlight than other paints, lessening the heat the home – and the planet – absorbs. We talked with Purdue University’s Dr. Xiulin Ruan to hear more about the science and when the paint will hit the market.

A campaign group working for the natural gas industry paid Southern California residents to lobby for “zero emission” trucks at the nation’s busiest port in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Investigative reporter Miranda Green talks about her recent story exposing the plan, which quotes several people who didn’t even realize where the money was coming from.

Solar farms, wind turbines and hydro dams are producing more renewable power for the state, but it can be difficult to deliver that power south to the massive NYC market — So state officials are considering proposals to effectively plug the city into more green power through high-voltage transmission lines that would run underground or underwater for more than 100 miles

The Transportation Department is moving to reverse former President Donald Trump’s bid to end California’s ability to set its own auto pollution standards.

Although leaded gasoline was fully phased out in 1996 with the passage of the Clean Air Act, it still fuels a fleet of 170,000 piston-engine airplanes and helicopters. Leaded aviation fuel, or avgas, now makes up “the largest remaining aggregate source of lead emissions to air in the U.S.,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Democratic lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would invest $25 billion to convert the nation’s fleet of gasoline- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles

There’s a new project in New York City that’s reducing emissions while creating jobs and saving money for people in public housing. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

The warnings about catastrophic blackouts have been coming for years. And the recent electricity outage in Texas after an extreme winter storm is just the latest sign that our country’s power grid is vulnerable. Experts say that one solution may be to combine our country’s three main regional power grids into one nationwide super grid. So, what’s stopping...

“Greenwashing” is when fossil fuel companies present themselves as working to solve the climate change crisis, when in fact they are just creating distractions from real progress. Leading climate scientist and author of “The New Climate War” Michael E. Mann joined LX News to discuss the obstacles that remain to winning the war and why systemic change is needed now.

President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the administration has rolled back regulations to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power and industrial plants and pushed...

On Friday, Disney made one final push to make “Avengers: Endgame” the highest-grossing film of all time. Marvel Studios began showing a new theatrical release of the film with a special tribute, a deleted scene and a teaser for “Spider-Man: Far From Home” at the end of the credits. This additional content is an enticing lure for fans of the...

A giant Ponzi scheme once dubbed “the largest green scam in America” was run by two Temple University graduates and a slick-talking Colorado salesman. Now, the first of the three people is being sentenced.

President Donald Trump often brags that he’s done more in his first year in office than any other president. That’s a spectacular stretch. But while he’s fallen short on many measures and has a strikingly thin legislative record, Trump has followed through on dozens of his campaign promises, overhauling the country’s tax system, changing the U.S. posture abroad and upending...