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Pittsburgh wants to become a model for cutting edge energy supply. Researchers in the city are planning a network of microgrids.

An investigation of the admissions scandal, and more in our weekly education news roundup.

There is concern that California's climate goals could suffer a set back because of PG&E's bankruptcy filing. The utility is key to helping the state's grid become 100 percent carbon free.

Huge snowstorms hit the West in February and in places like the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is well above average. Reservoir operators and farmers are watching the new snowpack forecast data closely.

Democrats have been feverishly trying to finalize a big spending package with social programs and climate change measures before President Biden leaves on an overseas trip Thursday.

Three western states and the federal government have signed a $200 million deal to keep Lake Mead viable. Millions depend on it for water and electricity. It's at a historic low due to climate change.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jeffrey Colgan, director of Brown University's Climate Solutions Lab, about how the United States plans to help Europe diminish its reliance on Russian natural gas.

Russia's war on Ukraine and the resulting oil price spike have forced the Biden White House to consider all kinds of measures for fossil fuel that it once would have shunned.

Millions of people are under heat advisories. Texas is experiencing some of the worst heat where high temperature records continue to be broken.

Chemical physicist Stafford Sheehan invented a process that can turn carbon dioxide into yeast. It's now a finalist in the NASA-sponsored Deep Space Food Challenge.