How The Iran War Oil Shock Is Helping Launch A Market For Electric Tugboats

Arc Marine started out selling luxury electric boats. Now it’s chasing a bigger business: battery systems for tugs, barges and military boats.

How Four States Are Funding Wildlife Crossings For Better Safety

Drivers in Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Virginia will be safer due to new laws enacted to create more wildlife road crossing, reducing animal collisions with vehicles.

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.
A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyper…

Mauna Loa Observatory Survives Lava, Budget Cuts And Politics

After a volcanic eruption and funding threats, NOAA says Mauna Loa’s world-famous CO₂ record is secure, accessible again, and undergoing major upgrades.

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets
ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and fleet management services directly to transit agencies ac…

More Than 600 Million People Facing Severe ‘Cooling Poverty’, Study Finds

The report highlights the growing problem of “systemic cooling poverty”, describes situations in which people cannot stay thermally safe because of various factors.

Nuclear Is Surging. The Real Question Is Timing

Big Tech, governments and investors are backing nuclear again. The harder question is whether it can scale in time for the grid.

A Steel Revolution: Game-Changer For The Climate And Energy Crises

A breakthrough innovation from Sweden could drastically reduce the CO2 emissions from steel production that stands for 7-9 % of the global emissions.

These Fish Robots Will Eat Seawater To Harvest U.S. Critical Minerals

Developing fish-like nanorobots to swim and eat lithium ions in seawater was among 19 projects to win $45.7 million in U.S. government critical mineral technology grants.

Chile’s Atacama desert is becoming the world’s biggest battery farm
Chile’s Atacama desert is becoming the world’s biggest battery farm

ContourGlobal, the independent power producer backed by KKR, has inaugurated a nearly $500 million solar-and-storage facility in Chile’s Atacama desert that stores daytime solar energy and delivers it after sundown. The Victor Jara hybrid plant combine…