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Climate Change Is Already Making People Sicker

<h5>Climate change<span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;">is a central issue at this year’s</span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span>United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)<span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;">, with multiple high-level meetings on the issue happening amid several devastating natural disasters.</span></h5>

Solar power Even More accessible, Price drops more than 25% in just one year

<h5>The US Department of Energy has published a report that details the falling cost of solar energy. Over the past 12 months, utility-scale solar has become 30 percent less expensive per watt.<br/></h5>

Morgan Stanley and Citi Say They Will Run on 100% Clean Energy

<h5>Morgan Stanley<span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;">and</span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span>Citigroup Inc.<span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;">announced they will get all of their energy from renewables in a few years, another show of corporate support for climate action running counter to U.S. President</span><span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;"> </span>Donald Trump<span style="font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;">’s view on the issue.</span></h5>

The troubling 'tactics' politicians are using to attack rooftop solar

<h5>Solar power's rise has felt unstoppable. Clean energy development has shattered records for years. And new figures show the U.S. solar power market experienced more record growth in the second quarter of 2017. Solar made up 22 percent of new electric capacity this year. But the game's far from over.<br/></h5>

Clean Energy Is Approaching a Tipping Point

<h5>The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.</h5>

Advocates blame oil giants for climate change, call Chevron No. 1 culprit

<h5>As scientists worry that climate change is stoking deadly hurricanes in the Atlantic and punishing wildfires in the West, a new study seeks to drive change by casting blame, connecting global warming to a roster of 90 companies topped by Bay Area-based Chevron.</h5>

Sachs: Big Oil will have to pay up, like Big Tobacco

<h5>Here is a message to investors in the oil industry, whether pension and insurance funds, university endowments, hedge funds or other asset managers: Your investments are going to sour. The growing devastation caused by climate change, as seen this month in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean, are going to blow a hole in your fossil-fuel portfolio.<br/></h5>

After generations working in coal, young West Virginians are finding jobs in solar

<h5>Tanner Lee Swiger graduated from high school in Wayne County, West Virginia this spring. His father and grandfather both worked in West Virginia’s coal industry. But not Swiger, or any of his high school classmates.<br/></h5>

During Irma’s Power Outages, Some Houses Kept The Lights On With Solar And Batteries

<h5>The ability of some residences and businesses to stay functioning as the power went out around them shows the growing potential of local generation and microgrids. Now those batteries just have to get a lot cheaper.</h5>

Scotland to phase out new gas and diesel cars by 2032

<h5>Nicola Sturgeon outlines plans to 'massively expand' pilot projects to encourage uptake of electric vehicles <br/></h5>

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