By Raya El-Hajjar, age 13 “It’ll start getting cooler…you just watch,” President Trump said as he sat in a news briefing in Sacramento, California. It was September 2020, at the height of the California wildfires. A picture of burning trees was displayed on his left. This is one of the most recent examples of the …
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By IndyKids Staff In late January this year, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced that he planned to sell the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to private companies. Even though PREPA is the largest public utility company in the US, serving 3.3 million people, the power grid is 45 years old and badly …
By CRISTEN BALDWIN AND TORY COOPER-JONES, age 9 Today, Denmark gets 40% of its power from wind, and the country has a big goal of not using any fossil fuels by the year 2050. The country also has a short-term goal to generate 50% of its power from wind during the next 10 years. …
By Marianne Nacanaynay, age 15 Kauai is the oldest of the Hawaiian islands, and almost 50 percent of its energy comes from renewable sources, including solar power. During the day, Kauai produces more than enough energy from solar and keeps the excess for evenings and night time by using batteries for storage. Like Puerto Rico, …
By Abiyana E. Moore, Age 8 The island of Puerto Rico was struck by a category 4 hurricane in September of 2017, which destroyed the country’s power grid and left the 90% of the population without electricity. Four months later, one-third of the island is still without electricity. The old system relied on importing …
Scientists believe that an increase in earthquakes in certain regions of the country is linked to fracking.
Green jobs are growing faster than jobs in other fields, even the fast-growing healthcare industry. In 2011, 2.6 percent of all the jobs in the country were green.
What it would take for the United States to rely only on renewable energy sources.
Our energy comes from a variety of sources, many of them harmful to the environment. Here is a look at what’s good and bad about our energy sources.
