A new technique for harvesting geothermal energy being pioneered in Utah has passed a significant milestone: Southern California Edison has contracted for enough of the energy to power 400,000 homes.

Millions of dollars are going to Georgia farms and small businesses in an effort to help implement renewable energy technology, federal officials said Friday. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $3.1 million dollars would go to farms and small businesses in rural Georgia from grants that mainly stem from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The deal adds to an existing contract with Atlanta-based Cherry Street Energy.

Farming and biofuels organizations are hopeful that ethanol could be used to power passenger jets, but making that dream a reality hasn't been easy.

A new agreement between the advocacy organization the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) and Georgia Power would help bring more homegrown green energy to market.

A Mercer professor and students are studying how to take food waste, like coffee grounds, and turn it into a liquid bio-crude.

Sarah Bauer, assistant professor at Mercer, says that liquid bio-crude could then be refined into a gasoline that, for example, a car could run on.

The number of heat-related deaths in Europe increased 30% in the last 20 years. Climate change is to blame.

A new version of the popular board game Catan aims to make players wrestle with a 21st-century problem: How do you develop and expand without overly polluting the planet?

The state’s utility regulators are set to vote Tuesday on Georgia Power’s proposal to increase its reliance on fossil fuels and renewable energy sources to meet skyrocketing demand.

Environmental and consumer groups are urging state regulators not to approve Georgia Power’s plans to increase its use of fossil fuels to meet a rapidly growing industrial demand.

The three-year program connects city governments with policy experts on decarbonization.

The job that's projected to be the fastest-growing in the U.S. is wind turbine service technician. So we wanted to learn what they actually do. Today on the show, reporter Darian Woods travels to a windy corner of Maine for a day in the life of one of these green-collar jobs.

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Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change can be difficult.

One year ago, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, directing hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the transition away from fossil fuels.

Sweden says it found the largest deposit in Europe of rare earths — ingredients in a host of technologies from e-vehicles to wind turbines. Mining and processing them is another story.