Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Utah Governor Spencer Cox has put energy at the center of his time in office, creating a blueprint for states across the U.S. to advance energy affordability and clean power. Cox, a Republican, has supported a mix of energy resources, including advanced nuclear and geothermal power, and led an effort with governors in the region to advance transmission.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Dr. Bill Frist is a heart and lung surgeon, former U.S. Senate majority leader, and Chair of the Global Board of Directors for The Nature Conservancy nonprofit. He has emerged as a prominent Republican advocate for climate action, seeking to bridge the partisan divide by emphasizing how protecting the environment benefits human health.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. John Harris is making it more affordable to electrify medium-duty commercial fleets--think delivery trucks and ambulances. His startup, Harbinger Motors, keeps its supply chain short and costs low by retaining ownership of all the intellectual property associated with its vehicles' parts.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Five years ago, C40 Cities--a network of mayors dedicated to climate action--launched an initiative to transition Latin America's public bus system away from polluting diesel.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Tim Mohin became the first CEO of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol in 2026, overseeing a framework used by approximately 97% of disclosing S&P 500 companies to measure and report corporate emissions. In taking on that job, Mohin is responsible for bringing together diverse voices to harmonize greenhouse-gas accounting rules in the face of pushback from some companies and government officials.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Under Ellen Dorsey's leadership, the Wallace Global Fund has taken an unusual step for most private foundations. In 2018, it announced it would be spending down its entire endowment fund and putting that money toward tackling climate change and other efforts to support human rights and justice.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Bob Mumgaard is the co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), which is developing technology to commercialize fusion power. In 2026, the company secured an additional $1 billion fundraising round as progress continues on its SPARC machine, which it says will be able to use powerful magnets to confine superheated plasma and produce power.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Retired school teacher Wendy Wales and her husband live on a farm near a coal mine in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia. When mining company MACH Energy proposed expanding the coal site, they decided to fight back--putting the potential climate impact front and center.

At just 34, Laureen Meroueh is modernizing the steel industry. Boasting a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she developed a method of turning iron ore into steel in a single step. In October, Hertha Metals broke ground on its first commercial facility, located in the Houston metro area, and secured more than $133 million in a Series A funding round, including $65 million from the Department of Defense to produce American-made rare earth magnets for F-35 jet fighters and missile guidance systems. What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government (other than your own), needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda? Back climate solutions that win on cost first and cut emissions second.