Tariffs, permitting, financing, and policy uncertainty are each stalling projects in 2026. They look the same from a distance. The right response to each one is completely different.

A Verdantix survey of 350 energy leaders found energy price volatility is now the top obstacle. Companies treating resilience as backup power are carrying growing competitive exposure.

Ohio's House passed H.C.R. No. 35 63-32 on June 9, urging Congress to reform federal energy permitting and citing a 2,000-gigawatt interconnection backlog and NEPA timelines near four and a half years.

Sustainability teams must now report the same data through CSRD, IFRS S1 and S2, CDP, and GRI at once. Software providers are splitting into two distinct categories to keep up.

Permitting delays are stranding pre-development capital and driving carry costs higher. CFOs evaluating energy and infrastructure projects need to treat permitting uncertainty as a front-end financial risk.

ISO 14001 is getting its most significant update in a decade, with new requirements effective April 2026 and a compliance deadline of April 2029. The changes are more complex than they appear — and organizations that wait to start preparing will feel it.

Wisconsin settled its PFAS enforcement case against Tyco Fire Products, requiring a $10M trust fund payment, replacement wells, and 20 years of groundwater monitoring in Marinette County.

Global climate reporting relies on emissions data collected under different methodologies, standards, and frameworks, making cross-border comparisons more difficult than many assume.

South Africa has enacted one of the most ambitious sustainability disclosure frameworks on the African continent. What the framework requires and what most companies can actually produce are two different things.

Massachusetts health officials are testing air quality at Uxbridge High School after multiple teachers were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand have enacted mandatory sustainability disclosure. Third-party assurance lags years behind, leaving a gap between what is filed and what can be trusted.

GHG Protocol updates would require hourly-matched renewable energy procurement. Companies built on annual RECs or cross-border certificates face a disclosure credibility problem.

Contrails.org has launched open data for airlines. The tool shows where contrails form, helping teams target warming cuts without sweeping fleet changes.

Scope 3 emissions represent 75% of most corporate footprints, but 79% of companies say supplier data is their top challenge. That gap is widening as mandates tighten.

Research finds most carbon offset programs fail to deliver real emissions reductions. As net-zero strategies depend on offsets, the credibility of those claims faces widening scrutiny.

Gasmet’s GT7000 Tellus brings multi-gas FTIR analysis to fixed setups. It supports teams tracking emissions, CO₂ purity and process change.

The Army Corps of Engineers Far East District just earned the Army Safety Star after seven years of work. What that process requires puts the Longview disaster in sharper context for EHS leaders.

A 900,000-gallon white liquor tank implosion at Nippon Dynawave's Longview mill killed 11 workers on May 26. Federal investigators are on site as scrutiny mounts over the facility's safety record.

Investors call corporate water risk disclosure unfit for decision-making yet keep relying on it. As regulatory pressure builds and water stress accelerates, that tolerance is ending.

MIT research shows third-party audited companies initially report 13.7% higher emissions. That is not failure. It is what honest measurement looks like — and regulators are watching.