Carbon

Phinergy advances aluminum-air backup power for data centers. A successful module test sets the stage for larger trials, but commercial hurdles remain.

Producer prices rose 6.3% in the year to September. Spend-based emissions estimates track those prices, not production, unless buyers adjust.

Better supplier data can raise or lower a Scope 3 baseline overnight. Executives need a reconciliation that separates corrected estimates from real cuts.

California finalized its first-year climate rules this week, and Scope 3 follows in 2027. Few suppliers hold measured data, so buyers need sharper requests.

New England ran mostly on oil during January's cold snap. With Scope 2 rules under revision, electrifying companies should model their coldest hours.

Deciduous boreal stands lose less than half as much carbon as conifers when they burn, and early fire suppression could keep more carbon in the ground.

Federal climate rules are loosening while state, city and European dates hold, so the government behind each obligation shows what a frozen budget can defer.

CBAM certificate sales open in February 2027, but the quarter each covered good entered the EU in 2026 already fixes its carbon price and budget exposure.

Green steel is emerging, but buyers and producers are often far apart. RMI’s book-and-claim model could connect demand with cleaner production without delivery.

Amazon is testing lower-carbon aluminum in Ohio data center cabling. The project could gauge whether cleaner materials can scale across hyperscale construction.

Buried inside EPA's power plant repeal is a proposal asking whether the agency has authority to regulate power-sector emissions at all under Section 111.

WBCSD finds more than 2.5 terawatts of renewable and storage projects stuck in grid queues worldwide, while curtailment climbs in most markets tracked.

A House of Lords inquiry is examining whether storage, gas with carbon capture, and demand flexibility can cover Britain's low-wind, low-sun stretches.

Yara's new Sluiskil carbon capture facility can handle 800,000 tons of CO2 annually, linking Dutch ammonia production with Norwegian storage.

Boston kept most of 26 Court Street standing while taking the building all-electric. The retrofit shows what lower-carbon civic reuse can look like in practice.

Michigan HB 6247 would establish a 200-day carbon storage permit process while creating clearer rules for monitoring, closure and Class VI oversight.

Tata Steel Nederland advances its IJmuiden green steel transition with a new permit application, DRI and EAF plans, and major emissions investments.

California SB 952 gives the State Water Project more flexibility to manage renewable energy procurement while preserving its 2035 clean power mandate.

California SCR 180 advances toward a final Assembly vote, backing carbon-intensity standards for hydrogen use across hard-to-electrify industrial sectors.

California's building electrification push is changing the skills facilities teams need to operate heat pumps, electrical systems and low-carbon buildings.

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