Jennifer McDermott

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  • FILE – A worker does checks on battery storage pods at Orsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Center lithium-ion battery storage energy facility Feb. 29, 2024, in Coolidge, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)Energy

    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • A police vehicle rests at an intersection near crime scene tape at Brown University, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I., following a Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 shooting at the university. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)North America

    Police have person of interest in custody over Brown University shooting that killed 2, wounded 9

    By Kimberlee Kruesi, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • Emergency personnel gather at Hope and Waterman Streets at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during reports of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)North America

    At least 2 killed and 8 injured hurt in shooting at Brown University with suspect still at large

    By Kimberlee Kruesi, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others
  • coalEnvironment

    ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • Donald TrumpEnvironment

    Connecticut, Rhode Island, reeling wind giant Orsted sue Trump administration for canceling nearly finished offshore projects

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • A sign for the company Equinor is displayed on Oct. 28, 2020, in Fornebu, Norway. (Håkon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)Politics

    Norwegian energy firm Equinor set to restart N.Y. offshore wind project after Trump administration lifts stop-work order

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • wind turbines in CaliforniaEnvironment

    Trump’s attempt to stop wind energy development sparked 17 states to sue the administration

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • A single load of laundry can release millions that are so tiny wastewater treatment plants can’t capture them all.Environment

    Your clothes are shedding millions of microplastics that clog water supplies every time you do laundry. Here’s how to fix it

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Wind turbines are seen from Interstate-84, Sunday, July 9, 2023, near Hammett, Idaho. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)Politics

    Trump executive order pauses leasing and permitting for wind energy projects

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Environment

    Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

    By Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • An aerial view of Three Mile Island, site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in historyTech

    Silicon Valley is pouring billions into nuclear energy because without it, the U.S. risks ‘browning the grid’

    By Alexa St. John, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • Aerial view of US Steel factory with smokestacks, Granite City, Illinois. (Photo by: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Environment

    Biden administration announces $6bn in funding for projects to slash industrial emissions, the largest-ever U.S. investment to decarbonize industry

    By Isabella O'Malley, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • Kathy HochulEnvironment

    Months after $4 billion writedown and calling U.S. ‘most painful part of our portfolio,’ Danish energy giant brings wind farm to New York

    By Jennifer McDermott, Nick Lichtenberg, and others
  • Wind farn=mEnvironment

    Offshore wind farms are sending electricity to America’s grid for the first time ever—with the help of Europe’s green giants

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • New Bedford, MA – August 17: A row of mono piles that will be the base for offshore wind turbines. Monitoring ships working 42 miles from New Bedford and about 20 miles offshore from land on wind turbine construction. (Photo by David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Environment

    The U.S. clean energy push just marked a huge milestone as major offshore wind farms start powering the domestic grid for the first time ever

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press