By Emily Pontecorvo for Grist.Broadcast version by Eric Tegethoff for Washington News Service reporting for the Grist-Public News Service Collaboration Last year, a reader wrote in to Grist s advice column with a question: Why doesn t every roof have solar panels? A report released this week by the nonprofit Environment America and the research firm Frontier Group poses a followup question: At the very least, why doesn t every big box store have rooftop solar? The amount of space available on the rooftops of Walmarts, Targets, Home Depots, Costcos, and other large stores and shopping malls in the continental U.S. is staggering. Environment America estimates that it amounts to 7.2 billion square feet, or about the size of El Paso, Texas. .
Despite their climate pledges, many utilities aren t moving away from fossil fuels very quickly, according to a new report. The Sierra Club conducted a follow-up analysis to its 2021 report on the 50 utility companies most invested in coal and gas. It found that companies are doing a marginally better job moving toward clean energy. .
Virginia s new energy plan takes an "all of the above" approach, although it is not as all-encompassing as it seems. Much of Gov. Glenn Youngkin s plan will involve consideration of a variety of energy sources such as natural gas, biomass, nuclear power or renewables, and experts contended the plan includes a few drawbacks. .
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There’s one category that the University of Kansas is blowing away its Big 12 competition in the use of wind energy on its campus. KU leaders on Wednesd