Four U.S. advanced reactor experiments reached criticality by a July 4 target, producing new data on how quickly designs can move from construction to testing.
Enacted in 2023 as part of the California Climate Accountability Package, Senate Bill 261 was originally expected to require covered businesses to begin making climate-related financial risk …
Rodale is betting $139 million on moving 10 million U.S. acres into organic production. Farmer economics and clear tracking will decide if it works in practice.
Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center plans to run on dedicated natural gas, joining a growing list of AI campuses built to sidestep grid connection queues.
USDA's NRCS found irrigation upgrades to Colorado's centuries-old acequia systems will adversely affect historic properties, opening a mitigation process.
Iberdrola's equity stake in a Spanish data center joint venture shows European utilities trading land and grid access for ownership, not just power contracts.
Minnesota regulators approved Xcel Energy's utility-owned distributed battery program, creating a closely watched test of who should own customer-sited storage.
New Hampshire has signed a law directing its Department of Energy to assess transformer vulnerability to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances.
Cigarette butts still lead coastal litter totals. Disposable vapes and nicotine pouches now add batteries, plastics and hazardous residues to this waste stream.
Intel is cutting Data Center Group jobs even as AI infrastructure spending is set to reach $487 billion in 2026, per IDC, as electricity demand keeps rising.
Maryland's Supreme Court vacated a $25,000 fee award in a records case that exposed secret Frederick County talks with Amazon over data center rezoning.
Australia's data center load is surging, but federal law excludes nuclear power from a grid plan built around renewables, storage, transmission and gas backup.
Gyre Energy has secured $1.3 million to expand its AI cooling platform. A major cold-chain project could test whether earlier savings continue at greater scale.
UNESCO's first Science Decade report finds governance-focused research trailing innovation by over 3 to 1, a gap it says is raising technology deployment risk.
Air Liquide announced three U.S. industrial gas investments in July 2026 totaling over $530 million, tied to semiconductor and chemical manufacturing growth.
Ireland's CRU now requires data center developers to prove a credible renewable energy plan before connecting, replacing a broad regional grid approach.
New IRP filings from 23 U.S. utilities show a shift to scenario-based forecasting as data centers drive demand, raising planning risk for facilities leaders.
When the first-quarter numbers on America's data center backlash arrived this spring, they showed that at least 20 proposed data centers were canceled after local opposition in the first three months …
Viridi Energy, backed by Warburg Pincus, began construction on a landfill gas-to-RNG facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, under a city build-own-operate contract.
Rolls-Royce has opened a $24M Mankato facility to expand backup power output. The center will support data centers and other critical infrastructure nationwide.