Renewable energy policy encompasses the laws, regulations, incentives, and legal disputes that shape deployment of low‑carbon technologies such as offshore wind, solar power, battery storage, and electric vehicles. It includes federal and state tax credits, grants, permitting regimes, and judicial decisions that can accelerate or constrain project timelines and investment. Interactions with continued support for coal and gas, national security concerns, grid reliability needs, and public opposition to infrastructure create a complex governance landscape for decarbonization pathways in the power and transport sectors.
Energy & Green Tech
A recent federal policy shift toward the increased use of fossil fuels, including coal, and away from renewable sources of power, could have implications for recent declines in emissions in the U.S., particularly as Congress ...
Sep 23, 2025
0
23
Energy & Green Tech
Tax incentives that saved U.S. residents thousands of dollars on home efficiency upgrades, clean energy installations and electric vehicles are expiring this year. That means people who want to take advantage of them before ...
Sep 18, 2025
0
16
Energy & Green Tech
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, it was the largest climate bill in U.S. history, with major incentives for electric vehicle production and adoption. In its wake, investment in the U.S. electric vehicle ...
Sep 9, 2025
0
34
Business
In a significant setback for California's effort to build hundreds of floating offshore wind turbines in the Pacific Ocean to boost renewable energy, the Trump administration has canceled nearly half a billion dollars in ...
Sep 3, 2025
0
25
Energy & Green Tech
The fallowed farmland—too dry, salty and barren to grow crops—stretches across a remote, sunbaked expanse crisscrossed by rutted dirt roads.
Sep 1, 2025
0
48
Business
The stringent environmental regulations in China could potentially be enhancing productivity in the new energy sector, research from Harbin University of Science and Technology and Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found.
Aug 28, 2025
0
27
Energy & Green Tech
Across the country, state leaders are racing to fast-track wind and solar projects before the expiration of federal tax credits to support clean energy.
Aug 28, 2025
0
17
Energy & Green Tech
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested there are limits in his campaign to thwart wind power, even as his administration moves to halt the installation of turbines in farmland and coastal waters.
Aug 27, 2025
0
20
Energy & Green Tech
Floods. Fires. Drought. Extreme heat. Massive storms. It's impossible to read the news these days without seeing clear distress signals from a planetary climate system in growing disarray. The impacts of climate change are ...
Aug 15, 2025
0
28
Business
The abrupt termination of tax credits for clean energy projects is perhaps the most drastic blow that President Donald Trump has struck in his campaign against wind and solar electricity.
Aug 12, 2025
0
22
