Clean energy growth crucial for net-zero by 2050, as fossil fuel use peaks this decade, IEA warns.

The International Energy Agency’s latest emissions reduction roadmap suggests “staggering” clean energy growth could ensure global fossil fuel use peaks this decade, but countries still need to deploy clean energy more aggressively to reach net-zero by 2050. Ohio-based First Solar kept making solar panels long after other domestic manufacturers gave up and now serves as a guiding light as the Biden administration seeks to ramp up U.S. solar component production. A federal judge orders the administration to expand the sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases, rejecting a previous version that was scaled back to protect an endangered whale species. Ford halts construction on a $3.5 billion Michigan electric vehicle battery plant until the company is “confident about its ability to competitively run the plant.” Critics of efforts to create a regional hydrogen hub in Appalachia raise concerns that the plan would raise electricity prices on consumers and fail to deliver promised jobs and emission reductions.