Rock Tech’s Victory option adds lithium upside in Northwestern Ontario. The deal supports its push to link exploration with future conversion capacity.
A new University of Wyoming project highlights how DOE increasingly views coal plants as platforms for critical minerals, water savings, and carbon capture.
Illinois HB1700 expands state authority over renewable energy siting disputes, signaling a broader shift toward accelerating project development.
For years, uncertainty justified delay. Increasingly, uncertainty itself is becoming the cost organizations can no longer afford to absorb.
The projects moving forward in the second half of 2026 are increasingly defined by infrastructure readiness, permitting certainty, and execution feasibility rather than projected returns alone.
Smart hydrants are giving utilities a sharper view of aging networks. McWane’s iHydrantPlus supports leak detection, pressure monitoring and faster response.
BOEM published a Request for Information June 23 on potential seabed mineral leasing off Virginia, covering 2,764 square miles near Chesapeake Bay. Comments close July 23.
A structural cost coverage gap in the EU's Extended Producer Responsibility framework is leaving recyclers underfunded, just as the Circular Economy Act opens for reform.
The biggest risk entering H2 may not be execution. It may be relying on planning assumptions that no longer reflect operating conditions.
Grid capacity limits, water constraints, permitting delays, and capital deployment challenges are increasingly converging on the same projects.
The Williams Treaties First Nations announced a $700 million investment in Ontario's Darlington SMR project, backed by the largest Indigenous loan guarantee ever issued in Canada.
Meta will buy attributes from two planned Sabanci solar projects. The Texas deal adds 220 MWac as data center power demand grows.
SEIA's new interactive map puts solar's farmland footprint against suburban sprawl and golf courses as Congress debates solar's role in the Farm Bill.
Power, water, permits, and capital are tightening simultaneously on the same projects. Executives need a framework for operating inside converging constraints, not resolving them one at a time.
Governor Meyer is pushing Delaware's PSC to freeze rates and restructure Delmarva's profit model as the utility seeks $68M in additional revenue from 344,000 customers starting July 9.
Heat enforcement, grid constraints, supply chain exposure, and AI infrastructure demands altered corporate risk profiles in Q2. Many companies are still operating from outdated assumptions.
The UK announced a $63.5 million critical minerals investment, funding rare earth magnet manufacturing, recycling projects, and a new industry demand aggregation platform.
Rivian is linking its EVs to utility managed-charging programs. The ChargeScape deal could help drivers cut costs while giving utilities more flexible load.
Trade tensions, AI infrastructure growth, and resource constraints are forcing executives to rethink assumptions about supply chains and competitive advantage.
The EEA's 2025 bathing water report shows 85% of EU sites rated excellent, but river quality lags and new EU rules expand monitoring for PFAS and microplastics.