The US Department of Energy has approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network to double in size. Gas and electric utility ...

A promising alternative to natural gas has been taking root in Massachusetts — underground pipes and wells that tap into geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings across a neighborhood. But late ...

Geothermal energy is a type of renewable energy that uses accessible thermal energy deep underground, extracting the heat from geothermal reservoirs in the Earth’s crust. Since the heat from the Earth ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has introduced a sharp reversal of American energy policy, promising a “180-degree pivot” away from efforts to combat climate change and advocating for an expansion ...

As promised, President Donald Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies his first day in office with a spate of orders largely favoring oil, gas and coal. But there is one renewable energy ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Jamie Beard, the founder of Project InnerSpace, which aims to kickstart ...

Nothing on the surface of this scrubby expanse of western Nevada desert, overlooked by towering, craggy mountains, gives even a hint of what lies beneath. But a few thousand feet underground is a ...