LATEST NEWS FROM CANARY MEDIA

• How Iowa has turned against wind February 3, 2026
  This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . SHENANDOAH, Iowa — First viewed from a pickup truck driving south on U.S. 59, the wind turbines seem small and delicate. The…
• Colorado co-ops to Trump: Let us close our aging coal plant February 3, 2026
  The Trump administration is facing lawsuits from states and environmental groups opposing its use of emergency power to force aging coal plants to stay online. Now, add utilities to its list of challengers. Last week, the cooperative utilities Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and Platte River Power…
• Sunrise Wind can proceed, ending Trump’s offshore wind ban — for now February 2, 2026
  In December, the Trump administration issued a sweeping stop-work order to every single offshore wind installation underway in America. But, as of today, all five projects have either resumed construction or received the green light from judges to do so. A federal judge ruled Monday that the 924-megawatt Sunrise…
• A rare plant species thrives amid solar panels in the Nevada desert February 2, 2026
  This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The ostensibly barren Mojave Desert is in fact teeming with plants and animals, including a rare species known as the threecorner milkvetch. It’s a member of the pea family, splaying across the ground instead of climbing…
• Colorado group looks to boost heat pumps with $200M federal grant February 2, 2026
  A group of governments in the Denver metropolitan area has managed to hold on to a nearly $200 million federal grant to unleash heat pumps in the region — and now it’s putting that money to work. The group has retained the funding, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2024, even as the Trump…