2025-12-23 Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sell …›
2025-12-23 A month ago, media all over the internet went crazy repeating the following headline (or a similar one) over and over: “IEA scraps Peak Oil, says oil demand will continue growing until 2050.” All this oil-positive hype was a result of the IEA’s W …›
2025-12-23 Trump Administration “pauses” fully permitted offshore wind projects, escalating its war on clean energy. WASHINGTON, DC — The Trump Administration announced today that it has paused leases on all offshore wind projects that are under constructi …›
2025-12-23 Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire …›
2025-12-23 Proposed rules would undermine nation’s most successful conservation law Washington D.C. — More than 380,000 Americans, including 17,000 Sierra Club supporters, submitted comments in opposition to a set of proposed rules from the Trump admini …›
2025-12-23 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Community, health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s exemptions that allow coke ovens to keep spewing harmful pollutants. Coke ovens, which superheat coal to produce coke used …›
2025-12-23 SUPERIOR, Wisconsin — On Friday, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant project, which it had been developing w …›
2025-12-23 On December 22, President Donald Trump finally ordered a halt to construction activity at the 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. What took you so long, Donald? Trump has been threatening the US offshore wind industry with total destru …›
2025-12-23 Francisco Shi has a problem. He has a lot of spare parts left over from his battery building project. You can read here about his home power plant constructed from BYD Atto 3 electric vehicle batteries from wrecked cars. The answer? Create a Super i-Mi …›
2025-12-22 This year marked the point where hydrogen transportation stopped being a future tense conversation and became an accounting exercise. Across light duty vehicles, buses, trucks, trains, mining equipment, refueling infrastructure, and even aviation, with …›
2025-12-22 This site is focused on cleantech for a reason. So many people are champions of cleantech because we want to protect human life and safety (and also life on Earth beyond humans). Every tech site covers solar and EVs now, because tehy’re simply …›
2025-12-22 It’s the latest in a decade-long scandal involving accusations that software “defeat devices” made diesel vehicles seem cleaner than they were. …›
2025-12-22 The US government is determined to exterminate climate science -- a move that will make America irrelevant.
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2025-12-22 BEVs represented 37% of the total Chinese car market in November. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in November (1.3 million plugins in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 8% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with November showi …›
2025-12-22 An Interior Department statement did not detail the national security risks. It's the administration's latest pus to hobble offshore wind and limit renewable energy sources. (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster) …›
2025-12-22 Zambia’s grid is mostly powered by renewables. 87% of its installed capacity, which now stands at around 3.9GW, is from renewables. In terms of the contribution from renewables to electricity generation, about 93% of the renewable component is from h …›
2025-12-22 November saw plugin EVs take 38.4% share of the UK auto market, up from 35.3% year-on-year. BEVs grew in volume by just 3.6% YoY, while PHEVs grew 15%. Overall auto volume was 151,154 units, down some 2% YoY. Tesla was the UK’s leading BEV brand for …›
2025-12-22 Restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility comes despite public opposition in Niigata, where many residents say safety concerns from Fukushima have not been resolved …›
2025-12-22 The rule banning new roads in some forests protects prime bear habitat and was part of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for its failed attempt to delist grizzlies in 2017.By Jake BolsterWhen the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service attempted t …›
2025-12-22 November saw plugin EVs take 98.4% share in Norway, up from 94.9% year on year. BEVs alone took 97.6% share. Overall auto volume was 19,889 units, up some 70% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in November. November’s auto market saw …›
2025-12-22 When President Donald Trump decided to stop practically the entire US offshore wind industry in its tracks, he achieved the expected outcomes in terms of lost jobs and missed opportunities to harvest more kilowatts from the sea. Nevertheless, the globa …›
2025-12-22 India has been somewhat disappointing in its transportation electrification. It’s a bit funny, or strange, since the country announced several years ago it was going to be the first 100% electric nation, and it is ridiculously far away from that …›
2025-12-21 Hyundai Motor unveiled two documentary films showcasing the achievements of its cooperation with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) across 12 countries One film sheds light on WFP’s operations in the Philippines and the role of donated Hyundai IONIQ 5 …›
2025-12-21 Waymo has gotten into the holiday spirit and is trying to attract more riders — or at least reward and brighten the days of existing riders — with a special Mariah Carey holiday mode. “We’re thrilled to launch our latest artist collaboratio …›
2025-12-21 For all the doom and gloom settling over the vehicle electrification movement in the US, a few bright spots continue to seep through. The latest news involves a new EV from the California-based global automaker Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. …›
2025-12-21 New electric cars from BMW and Mercedes target the hottest segment of the new car market -- family capable SUVs.
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2025-12-21 Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that bury huge amounts of carbon in the ocean. In low-o …›
2025-12-21 VinSpeed High-Speed Railway Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, a unit of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate, has signed a strategic cooperation and technology transfer agreement with Siemens Mobility GmbH to advance high-speed rail developm …›
2025-12-21 Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss how Pennsylvania is failing to track toxic oil and gas waste, while the amount sitting in landfills grows every year.By Kiley BensePennsylvania is gr …›
2025-12-21 Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over 35 years. The results show mosses now release spores up to a month earlier than in the 1990s. Even more surprising, the timing d …›
2025-12-21 People in rural Michigan are celebrating the defeat of a proposed solar farm that would power an Oracle data center.
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2025-12-21 The discovery, late in the year, that yet another hydrogen transit scheme turned out to be high emissions rather than low emissions was not surprising, but it was clarifying. The Dijon hydrogen bus project followed the same pattern seen repeatedly over …›
2025-12-20 Lhyfe’s recent press release—another just before Christmas, end of the week, hope no one notices effort like others I’ve assessed in recent days—reported on in the usually excellent Hydrogen Insight industry publication, claims that revenue …›
2025-12-20 You’ve got someone in your life who you love and appreciate but you just don’t know what to get them for Christmas? Perhaps they’ve just got everything they need, and even a bit more. We’ve all been there. An idea hit me this we …›
2025-12-20 The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?As officials from around the world met in Brazil for the Cop30 climate summit last month, the US pres …›
2025-12-20 I was looking out the window the other day and saw a middle-schooler biking home from school with her mom and dad. They were all on electric bikes (ebikes). It hit me at that moment that ebikes were really helping to increase school commuting by bike. …›
2025-12-20 November’s auto sales saw plugin EVs at 65.4% share in Sweden, up from 61.7% year-on-year. BEVs were up in share, while PHEVs were flat. Overall auto volume was 21,016 units, down by some 15% YoY. The Volvo EX40 was the best-selling BEV. November’s …›
2025-12-20 Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerableHow climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and chartsThe destruction of food supplies by crop pests …›