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• Cans to car parts: Inside the complex, crucial world of aluminum recycling September 12, 2024
  This article is part of a two-part reporting project on decarbonizing aluminum production. Read our story on Kentucky's green smelter dreams here . On a muggy summer day in an industrial stretch of Brooklyn, New York, Josefa Marín stood in a sea of empty aluminum cans, methodically sorting the tall green Heinekens…
• How $7.3B will help rural co-ops build clean power—and close coal plants September 12, 2024
  Rural electric cooperatives, which bring electricity to the most sparsely populated parts of the country, are getting their biggest federal investment since the New Deal — and this time around, the money is going to help fight climate change. Last week, the Biden administration announced $7.3 billion in financing…
• Massachusetts cities embrace voluntary green building codes September 11, 2024
  This story was first published by Energy News Network . A year and a half since Massachusetts introduced an optional new building code aimed at lowering fossil fuel use, climate activists are heartened by how quickly cities and towns are adopting the new guidelines. The new code, known as the specialized stretch…
• Here’s a blueprint for building virtual power plants in every state September 11, 2024
  Rooftop solar, backup batteries, electric vehicles, and smart thermostats and appliances are all crucial to the energy transition in their own right. But if utilities are able to combine these distributed energy technologies together to form so-called virtual power plants , the result could be greater than the sum of…
• A new green aluminum plant could bring jobs — and clean energy — to Kentucky September 10, 2024
  This article is part of a two-part reporting project on decarbonizing aluminum production. Read our story on recycling aluminum here . ASHLAND, Kentucky — When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and…