In many parts of the US, pellet mills are clear-cutting forests and processing the wood into pellets to be burned for “green” energy – leaving behind a trail of dust-filled, toxic air, planet-warming emissions, and devastated communities. Read how biomass is able to earn “green” credentials and why it simply should not.

Giant, overflowing “lagoons” of pink, toxic sludge dot the coast of North Carolina. They also leak, pollute, and sicken the environment and communities around them. Yet, these unhealthy cesspools and their alarming risks are sticking around – thanks to the rapidly growing, greenwashed industry of biogas.

Despite the known risks associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS), the technology has been gaining support as a “climate solution” in recent years. But when something sounds too good to be true, it often really is. For CCS, it is actually much worse – and here are five reasons why.

After 30 years of community opposition and hundreds of emissions violations, one of the largest waste incineration plants in the country finally shut its doors for good. Read how a facility that exceeded pollution emissions standards more than 750 times can be considered a “climate solution” by policymakers in 23 states – and what to do about it.

Perhaps the worst consequence of the outsized attention on hydrogen gas is that it distracts from more viable and cheaper climate solutions and policies. In this 2-part blog, we dispel what types and uses of hydrogen gas do and do not have a potential role in a truly clean and equitable energy transition. In Part 2, we describe better alternatives for clean energy solutions and – with caution – how specific hydrogen uses may have a role in our climate-just future.

Only hydrogen produced from zero-emission, renewable energy – known as “green hydrogen” – and used in a fuel cell is truly carbon-free and pollution-free. But fossil fuel advocates downplay this fact and want us to think that many types of hydrogen gas will play a big role in the clean energy transition. This is wrong. In this 2-part blog, we dispel what types and uses of hydrogen gas do and do not have a potential role in a truly clean and equitable energy transition. Part 1 describes what is incompatible with a climate-just future.

Communities already burdened by toxic air quality are now having to fight policies that would spew even more pollution into their neighborhoods – all under the guise of “clean energy.” Read our latest blog to find out which “clean” energy resources actually create more harm than good and three ways communities can course correct to the equitable clean energy future we all deserve.