Suppliers are handling higher energy, freight and material costs differently, creating new pricing and financial risks for procurement teams.

Pennsylvania will withhold data center permits unless developers pay their own power costs, secure local approval and meet new GRID Requirements.

New research is shifting space-based solar power from theoretical generation toward harder questions about power beaming, regulation and grid integration.

DOE's $60 million Prometheus initiative adds HiddenLayer for AI security as nuclear developers, labs and regulators expand AI into reactor licensing.

Contracted water supply can overstate what facilities and suppliers can reliably access, creating a gap in site, acquisition and supply-chain diligence.

A Ninth Circuit ruling strengthens Central Valley Project contract certainty for water districts while leaving businesses exposed to annual water supply risk.

Ireland's new data center connection rules require generation or storage to match grid demand, changing the economics of digital infrastructure investment.

Bioeconomy strategies are expanding in 76 countries, but new research finds governance gaps around land, genetic resources, data and benefit sharing.

Falling battery prices and rising outage losses are changing how facilities and finance teams should calculate the return on energy storage investments.

A new Nature Sustainability study finds companies using accepted accounting methods can produce climate estimates that differ by a factor of two.

Illinois is adding PFAS sampling to wastewater permits, creating new visibility into contamination moving through effluent, influent, and biosolids.

Corporate energy buyers using standard PPA templates across U.S. power markets may be carrying different grid risks under seemingly identical contract terms.

Florida's SunTrax testing campus is adding an eVTOL flight track to its autonomous vehicle program, part of a federal AAM pilot spanning 26 U.S. states.

Data center leases can pass utility rate, demand, capacity and transmission costs to tenants, creating power exposure enterprise buyers may overlook.

Sweden opened a consultation on national PFAS rules for clothing, cosmetics and cookware starting 2028, ahead of a broader EU restriction still under review.

EPA's draft TSCA reviews find both industrial solvents pose unreasonable risk to workers, with facility data due before an October 9 comment deadline.

Missouri's finalized large-load tariff and Texas's proposed 20-year billing rule show how differently states are structuring big power contracts now.

A new UN methane strategy says agriculture and waste systems will require major operational changes alongside fossil fuel reductions to meet 2030 goals.

A new UN report says cutting methane from oil, gas, and coal offers the quickest emissions reductions, with proven technologies and relatively low costs.

Four advanced reactors reached zero-power criticality by July 4, but licensing, manufacturing, and commercial deployment will require far more capital.