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PostMay 6, 2025

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

MIT Energy Initiative

India has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, a difficult task as the country’s electric power system relies on many coal-burning power plants. While some of the plants are fuel-efficient (right), many more are not (left). MITEI researchers have explored and clarified India’s decarbonization options and have posted their methods and results for use by other countries in the midst of similar energy transitions.

PostMay 6, 2025

Experts say composting is the best solution to landfills. Where does Housto...

Leo Brito, Founder of Zero Waste Houston, dumps wood chips during a composting class.

PostMay 5, 2025

Houston's trash problem is only getting worse. What will it take to get it ...

An overhead view of the McCarty Road Landfill from Angela Jackson's neighborhood on March 15, 2025, in Houston.

PostMay 2, 2025

MIT Sustainable Design Lab and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Launch New...

MIT Climate Policy Center

View of the Boston, Massachusetts skyline and the Charles River from the Cambridge side of the Charles.

PostApril 28, 2025

Does nuclear energy hold the key to Texas’ power needs? The state is expl...

Rusty Towell, Director of NEXT Lab and professor of Engineering and Physics at Abilene Christian University, talks during a tour of Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center, on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center in Abilene

PostApril 24, 2025

Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political ...

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

shipping containers with EU and US labeling

PostApril 23, 2025

Batteries hold promise of clean, reliable Texas energy, if problems can be ...

Lithium ion battery storage containers are seen at Eolian's large-scale battery electrical storage facility, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Fort Worth

PostApril 22, 2025

Texas political leaders are indifferent, if not hostile, to climate change ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have found common ground in opposing several legislative proposals in 2023 to limit wind and solar power and battery storage facilities in Texas

PostApril 4, 2025

Sustainability science: navigating the challenges of global change

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

MIT Global Change Forum 47

PostApril 3, 2025

Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy

MIT Energy Initiative

During a panel at the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, Lucia Tian (center), head of clean energy and decarbonization technologies at Google, discusses the challenges and opportunities that AI and rapid electrification bring to electricity demand.

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