Last year, six farms were the first in the Tar Heel State to get funding from California’s program offsetting its transportation emissions. Their permits to make biogas already have civil rights complaints against them for the pollution from the process.

By Blanca Begert

TURKEY, N.C.—The Align RNG biogas processing facility here is so small, you would miss it if you weren’t looking for it. Just four small silver mounds beside a massive 100-foot grain silo under which trucks drive day-in, day-out loading up with hog feed.

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

As ERCOT plans to reform how it evaluates data centers seeking grid connection, unknowns remain.

By Arcelia Martin

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that process is still at least four months away.

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss the push and pull of climate action in Pennsylvania.

By Kiley Bense

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the federal government’s ability to act against climate change, the real fight to curb carbon emissions is shifting to the state level. Case in point: Pennsylvania.

Climate Action in the Hands of the State