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Occupations associated with solar and wind development—including wind energy engineers, solar photovoltaic installers, surveyors, and construction inspectors—are less risky in terms of COVID-19 exposure, concludes a new report.

U.S. coal-industry employees are not being taken care of as well as their counterparts in Germany and Spain, where federal programs are assuring a far more just and equitable transition.

Great River becomes the most recent in the industry to signal it will abandon coal and invest in the new energy economy—specially in wind farms across the Upper Midwest.

A union leader, a county commissioner, and a state official say the pandemic won’t thwart their push for reinvesting in communities hurt by the shift in how electricity is generated.

New data compiled around U.S. electricity-generation activity shows that renewable energy—hydro, solar, and wind—has outproduced coal-fired power 40 days in a row for the first time in history.

Navajo Power and sPower, privately held enterprises, are partnering with Arizona utility company SRP to develop solar farms in communities hurt economically by last year’s closure of Navajo Generating Station.

A once-prosperous industry that has ‘filled Wyoming’s coffers to the tune of billions of dollars, funding everything from schools to roads’ is tanking almost overnight as the pandemic hastens change.

Special interests from across the political spectrum came together eventually around deeply common concerns: Jobs, sustainable business models, equitable distribution of prosperity, and inclusion of rural and urban communities alike.

A nascent push to mandate utility-company reinvestment in long-time coalfield economies across tribal and non-tribal areas alike suggests a template others can follow. Regulatory or legislative action could be key.

Tribal lands in the desert Southwest are an obvious choice for investment in the new energy economy because of their rich solar resources, plentiful space, and access to transmission lines.