Climate change

Gov. Eric Holcomb is headed to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt next week.

Jobs in sectors like energy efficiency, renewables, and clean fuels grew by nearly 7 percent in Indiana. That's up from 2020, where the state lost 3 percent of its clean energy workforce.

The tools will include interactive maps that display various migration scenarios for residents, city planners, engineers, and policymakers.

The Sierra Club finds that 37 out of 50 electric utilities it tracks in the U.S. are either doing very poorly, or failing, on taking necessary steps to meet their climate pledges to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2030. \DTE Energy is one of those that received an "F."

The Sierra Club has released its latest report ranking electric utilities based on their climate commitments. The rankings are based on utilities’ plans to retire coal plants, build enough renewable energy, and avoid adding new natural gas plants by 2030.

Michigan State University researchers have developed a forecast model of changing climates to predict which counties in the midwestern U.S. and Ontario are most likely to offer the most hospitable breeding grounds for monarch butterflies.

While other parts of the country may have hotter temperatures overall, counties stretching from eastern Texas to southwest Michigan will have at least one day a year where the temperature feels like 125 degrees or more.

The federal Inflation Reduction Act could help Indiana utilities and other businesses to adopt renewable energy like solar — but whether it will encourage Indiana residents to do the same is unclear.

The results of the research were dramatic — and disturbing. Even with a relatively modest temperature increase of 1.6 degrees Celsius — just under 3 degrees Fahrenheit — survival rates for the most common boreal species fell by up to 40%, with growth rates are showing huge decreases.

Ford Motor Company is planning to shift its Michigan factories to carbon-neutral energy sources by 2025. To do so, the automaker is partnering with the utility DTE Energy on a large-scale investment that would involve building new solar arrays.