New Jersey could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions from buildings – the state’s second largest source of emissions – by replacing fossil-fueled boilers with heat pumps and other electric appliances and beefing up incentives for the equipment, according to a recent report from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. Heat pumps can replace furnaces or boilers, …

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Microsoft and PepsiCo took the No. 1 and 2 spots in a new ranking of 55 large U.S. companies for their work on net-zero-emission targets.

More than 90 companies, governments, universities and other organizations pledged to cut their GHG emissions 50% by 2030 in DOE's Better Climate Challenge.

Fifty-one carbon capture and storage projects were announced in the U.S. in 2021, more than the total of all projects announced in the previous three years.

A new study shows that most global corporations with big carbon emissions pledges are likely to come up short on real reductions.

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The White House continued its execution of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with a new group of requests for information and guidance documents.

State officials say they are both excited and intimidated by the amount of clean energy funding coming through the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

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Sen. Reuven Carlyle, the architect of the nation’s second cap-and-trade law, said that he will leave the Washington Senate when his term expires next year.