The building materials sector is highly energy-intensive, responsible for over one-third (37 percent) of global energy-related emissions. According to a 2023 report from the UN Environment Programme, the buildings and construction industry is the world’s largest emitter of CO2.
The highly secured grounds housing its seven reactors cover 4.2 million square meters. Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, compares its size to 90 Tokyo Domes, the home stadium of Japan’s most successful baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants. For another perhaps more commonly known landmark: this equals to a size nearly 25% bigger...
The Trump administration has helped launch the first-ever U.S. mine for a critical mineral largely dominated by China, which controls about half of global production, Fox News Digital has learned. The Idaho operation will extract and smelt antimony – a metalloid that is key to the U.S. defense and technology sectors – and reduce reliance on malign...
The Interior Department said it would review a new proposal for operations off the coast of American Samoa. Read more in The New York Times here.
The application kicks off a multi-year federal permitting process as the country’s largest public power provider works to bring its first advanced reactor online in late 2032. Read the article in Utility Dive here.
The Trump administration wants to privatize the popular Energy Star program, which sets government standards for energy-efficient appliances, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin confirmed Tuesday. “This program is an example of one that can be run outside of government,” Zeldin told House members during a budget hearing. “I’ve actually had multiple entities reach out...
Read the article in Politico here.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is teeing up a contentious vote to overturn California’s electric vehicle mandate, defying a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian. “This week, we’re going to be moving to take up Congressional Review Act resolutions to overturn Clean Air Act preemption waivers the Environmental Protection Agency granted to California that allow California to...
America’s solar capacity has been rising—in 2023, solar panels generated enough energy to power 22 million homes, eight times more than in 2014. While that is impressive, solar still only produces roughly 4 percent of our nation’s total electricity. However, a recent development in anti-reflective coatings could improve solar efficiency and increase that percentage.
We expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 7.5% in 2025 but will remain 2.4% below the 10-year average in our May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Hydropower generation in 2024 fell to 241 billion kilowatthours (BkWh), the lowest since at least 2010; in 2025, we expect generation will be 259.1 BkWh. This amount of generation would represent...
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