The Cleanest Power Plant Is the One We Never Build Every time electricity demand rises, the conversation follows a familiar script. Utilities announce plans for

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Every Summer Is Now a Climate Disaster Season Every year, it arrives a little earlier. The heat starts building in late spring. Reservoirs shrink. Grasslands

When Does Enough Become Enough? Every environmental crisis seems to come with the same prescription: build more. More power plants. More pipelines. More desalination facilities.

California Just Proved We Don’t Need Another Gas Plant A one-gigawatt power plant just appeared in California. No smokestacks. No pipelines. No billion-dollar construction project.