The U.S. on Monday proposed adding copper and potash among others to the draft critical minerals list for 2025, for their importance to the economy and national security. The Geological Survey, a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, released the draft list in the Federal Register and it will be open for public...
A California-based startup, Circularity Fuels, is making headway in an area long considered economically unviable: turning agricultural waste into a reliable source for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). With more than 20,000 large-scale livestock farms in the U.S. generating nearly a trillion pounds of manure each year—and less than 6% of them capturing the resulting biogas—the untapped...
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Last month, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposed rule to overturn the 2009 endangerment finding. The finding, which declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, provided the legal backbone for the federal government to regulate carbon dioxide from cars, trucks, power plants, manufacturing facilities, and more.
The world’s first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway’s coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating the site said Monday. The project by Northern Lights, which is led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, involves transporting and burying CO2 captured at smokestacks...
China has logged an increase in coal power projects in the first half (H1) of 2025, suggesting a resurgence in coal dependency despite the nation’s clean energy advancements. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor’s latest review indicates a boom in commissioned coal projects, with the highest number...
In a major win for wildlife conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it will pause use of the controversial “blanket 4(d) rule” and initiate steps to rescind it over the next 14 months—a key objective of a lawsuit filed last year by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and the Rocky...
The Interior Department on Friday halted construction on Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island’s coast. Why it matters: It’s another sign of the Trump administration’s hostility to offshore wind and comes after it issued — then lifted — a stop-work order on a major wind project under construction off New York’s coast. Driving the news: Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued...
The Palisades Nuclear Plant is located on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, a short two-hour drive from Chicago. It came online in 1971 and was retired in 2022, ranked at the time as the eighth-oldest nuclear plant in the country. Now, the plant is set to restart and make history as the first American nuclear plant to do so.
India aims to allow private firms to mine, import and process uranium as part of plans to end a decades-old state monopoly over the nuclear sector and bring in billions of dollars to boost the industry, two government sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to expand nuclear power production capacity by 12 times...
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