Cities & Buildings

Local governments are making formal plans to reduce their carbon footprint and protect the environment.

Initial support for the project came from Erie Insurance and Erie-based Plastek Group.

Hourly rainfall intensity increased 13% in Atlanta between 1970 and 2024, according to Climate Central.

Pakistan’s solar boom, EV rise, and climate action signal a historic shift from fragility to clean tech leadership across Asia’s most unexpected energy frontier.

EV investments are crumbling under policy uncertainty, giving China an even bigger lead.

Heat pumps are essential to ditching fossil fuels, but they rely on powerful greenhouse gases to work. Here’s how to tackle that problem.

Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.

To become climate-friendly, buildings need heat pumps, energy-efficiency measures, cleaner construction, and tech that makes their power use more flexible.

See-through solar cells could turn entire skyscrapers into renewable energy power stations

Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.

Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis said natural gas with carbon capture is an option if the projects are commercially viable.

El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinking water.

Tesla is expanding its manufacturing presence in Texas with a huge new Megafactory battery manufacturing facility in Waller County west of Katy.

Northern states are depending on imported Canadian hydropower to clean up their grids. What happens now?

Top image: The RMI microgrids team with Pastor Shawn Anglim and members of Together New Orleans at the First Grace United Methodist Church, a Together New Orleans Community Lighthouse. When Hurricane Francine hit New Orleans this past September, cutting off power to almost half a million customers, many people had to figure out where to […]

ComEd is preparing a vehicle-to-grid pilot program in which school districts will sell power to the grid by discharging parked electric school bus…

Once built, the Microsoft data centers in Racine and Kenosha counties would only employ a few hundred workers apiece and will take a lot of electricity to run them. Advocates are pushing for renewable energy to power them.

Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks say

Mixed-income affordable housing can cut emissions and boost equity, they argue.

Ground source heat pumps could bring geothermal heating and cooling to millions of homes in the coming decade, a federal report concludes.

The U.S.-based charging giant's new cables are designed to prevent charging cable theft and vandalism—and even have alarms.

Big tech is flooding Minnesota with data centers. They could be lucrative and lower electric bills. Some fear eye-popping power demand will threaten climate goals.

But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.

Tidal power and solar would fuel a community microgrid protecting the island of Eastport, Maine, from outages.

The findings of a new global study on urban rainfall patterns underscore the importance for metropolitan areas to adapt to human-altered climate. By Bob Berwyn

Citizens in Decatur, Illinois, are alarmed to hear there were two leaks in the CCS plant run by Archer-Daniel-Midlands.

Reducing demand for electricity has broad benefits, including less need to add new wires and grid equipment.

The findings of a new global study on urban rainfall patterns underscore the importance for metropolitan areas to adapt to human-altered climate. By Bob Berwyn

The findings of a new global study on urban rainfall patterns underscore the importance for metropolitan areas to adapt to human-altered climate. By Bob Berwyn

Digital building modeling tools are helping the City of Ithaca find the most effective ways to electrify its building stock. Here are three key takeaways for other cities.

Burning fossil fuels in homes and buildings is one of the largest sources of pollution in the United States, impacting our health and accelerating the climate crisis. Equipping buildings with highly efficient and zero emission appliances is critically important to ensure that communities across the country have clean air to breathe, affordable energy bills, and a liveable planet.

'The August that we left, it was so dry and so hot that there were wildfires actually encroaching on Austin as we were leaving,' Jessica Mederson said. 'As we were ...

Heat has gotten so extreme in some places that turning on the AC doesn’t adequately cool poorly designed buildings. The world needs effective solutions, fast.

Smaller secondary systems that create hailstorms and tornadoes pack a punch that is causing billions of dollars in damages

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

People often resist congestion pricing because they favor the status quo. But seeing the benefits firsthand often leads them to embrace it.

Rewiring America ran the numbers and found that a big investment in heat pumps would end up paying for itself.

An electric-powered complex debuts with hundreds of ‘passive’ homes

Chapel Hill officials envision an office park, perhaps, with trails. But some community members and lawyers say a few feet of clean fill can’t protect against chemicals linked to serious illnesses.

New Climate Central analysis shows where urban heat is most intense in 65 major cities that account for 15% of the U.S. population.

It will become the eighth country in the world to do so

The roar of the leaf blower has become an inescapable part of daily life in communities across America, leading towns and states to ban or restrict blowers that run on gasoline.

As sea levels rise and storms intensify, coastal real estate is seeing flooding and erosion like never before, and it's impacting home values.

When the federal government wavered in its commitment to climate action, cities stepped up. But goals, and success, are hard to define.

Discover sports venues and facilities that use bamboo structures. Explore case studies from Stadiums to Yoga Studios.

If you visit Zürich, Switzerland, it's not a question of if your trip will be sustainable — it's how sustainable. Here's what you'll notice when you visit.

The report is a key deliverable in the organizations’ collaboration to speed up action on embodied carbon through building materials.

After a record-hot summer last year in Phoenix, with 54 days reaching 110 degrees or higher and 645 heat-related deaths, city leaders are ramping up efforts even more this year.

From incessant noise to noxious odors, the Shell plastics plant has deeply impacted the residents of a western Pennsylvania county.

Green spaces significantly cool our ever-hotter cities. New research suggests more trees could cut heat-related ER visits in LA by up to two-thirds.