Speakers at London Climate Action Week said cities, businesses, and regional coalitions are increasingly driving climate action ahead of COP31.
World Athletics' 2026 midpoint review shows what happens when sustainability stops being a pledge and becomes a contractual deliverable embedded in event hosting requirements.
Colorado CDPHE is accepting applications for its Environmental Justice Grant Program, funding up to 10 projects in pollution-impacted communities.
Many organizations entered 2026 expecting normalization. Q2 suggests the second half will be defined by adaptation rather than recovery.
A new University of Wyoming project highlights how DOE increasingly views coal plants as platforms for critical minerals, water savings, and carbon capture.
Smart hydrants are giving utilities a sharper view of aging networks. McWane’s iHydrantPlus supports leak detection, pressure monitoring and faster response.
The UK announced a $63.5 million critical minerals investment, funding rare earth magnet manufacturing, recycling projects, and a new industry demand aggregation platform.
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.
EHS, facilities, procurement, and sustainability each left something unresolved in Q2. Here is what each function needs to close before the second half starts.
Silicone hull paint beat copper coatings in European tests. The findings could reshape antifouling choices for boatyards, marinas and paint suppliers.
Vale reports a 25% productivity gain at its AI-integrated Conceição 2 plant in Brazil, with a 40% increase in direct reduction pellet feed output and a 26% drop in iron lost to waste.
The BLM approved initial infrastructure for the Dewey-Burdock uranium project, advancing a long-debated in-situ recovery development in South Dakota.
Mitsubishi Electric and VTT are preparing a direct ocean capture system for coastal trials. The work could test seawater's role in scalable carbon removal.
A federal appeals court declined to halt a North Carolina water permit for the Mountain Valley Southgate pipeline, reinforcing agency discretion in environmental reviews.
TerraCycle’s NLR deal adds regulated waste capacity. The move gives business customers broader recycling and compliance support.
Consumer Reports detected no PFAS above its threshold in 18 baby wipe brands. No federal standard requires manufacturers to test or disclose PFAS content in personal care products.
Pennsylvania has addressed less than 2% of its documented inventory of orphaned and abandoned wells, each one a potential source of methane emissions, groundwater contamination, and safety risk.
A federal class action filed May 28 against EMR Advanced Recycling in Camden, NJ cites more than a dozen fires since 2020, repeated NJDEP violations, and displacement of over 100 families.
Switch Bioworks is testing microbial fertilizer in Midwest corn fields. The trials will show whether engineered microbes can support nitrogen delivery at scale.
Canovation and CANPACK are preparing CanReseal for pilot-line use. The project tests whether resealable aluminum cans can fit existing production.