Optimist Daily: How Uruguay Achieved 98% Renewable Energy
During the 2000s, as global fossil fuel costs skyrocketed, Uruguay faced a tremendous issue. Uruguay, heavily reliant on foreign oil and paying exorbitant prices to for electricity from neighboring countries, found itself in an energy crisis. (Then) physicist Ramón Méndez Galain, spearheaded a radical shift towards clean energy - wind and hydropower…
Heatmap News: Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade
April 21 - A federal court seems to have struck down a swath of Trump administration moves to paralyze solar and wind permits. U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Tuesday enjoined a raft of actions by the Trump administration that delayed federal renewable energy permits, granting a request submitted by regional trade groups.