Isabella O'Malley

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  • Nicholas Hartnett, owner of Pure Power Solar, lifts a solar panel to the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, July 17, 2023. Since passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, it has boosted the U.S. transition to renewable energy, accelerated green domestic manufacturing, and made it more affordable for consumers to make climate-friendly purchases, such as installing solar panels on their roofs. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)Finance

    Nearly 80 major clean energy factories announced in year since Biden’s IRA passed: ‘It seems like every week there’s a new factory facility somewhere’

    By Isabella O'Malley, Michael Phillis, and others
  • An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P. Eolian will begin construction later this year in Portland, Ore., on projects to serve Portland General Electric, the utility that serves metropolitan Portland, the largest battery procurement of their kind outside California. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde)Environment

    Portland is getting the second-biggest battery storage facility in the US that could create enough electricity to power 260,000 homes

    By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Cows stand on a meadow in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 4, 2022. Rising methane levels in the atmosphere in 2022 again played a big part in an overall increase in the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, according to the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)Environment

    Scientists are worried about the rise in methane emissions as the world heats up and ‘cows in particular’ are to blame

    By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated Press
  • An ENGIE employee walks past solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Renewable electricity in the U.S. achieved a huge milestone in 2022, and production is only increasing

    By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated Press
  • In this screenshot provided on March 7, 2023, TikTok user Hazel Thayer speaks out in a TikTok video against an oil drilling project that’s proposed on Alaska’s North Slope. A social media campaign is urging President Joe Biden to reject the project. The #stopwillow campaign, mostly on TikTok, has tallied more than 50 million views. Its popularity reflects the unease that young Americans feel about climate change and their concern that Biden will not keep his campaign pledge to curtail oil drilling. (Hazel Thayer via AP)Environment

    A TikTok campaign against an Alaska oil project has racked up 50 million views: ‘It’s just so blatantly bad for the planet’

    By Mark Thiessen, Isabella O'Malley, and others