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Terra CO2 wants to make cement additives from mining waste. The startup could get a $52.6 million DOE grant to build a clean energy factory near Salt Lake City.
An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew.
Indigenous peoples raise the alarm as Pentagon spending on lithium, graphite, and other minerals skyrockets.
The fires could cause more than $20 billion in damages, further straining the state’s fragile insurance market.
Elon Musk's DOGE has gutted the 30-year-old national service agency.
Lawmakers wanted to lead the energy transition, but Governor Kathy Hochul is worried about the cost of ditching natural gas.
The state's pension funds have an estimated $14.8 billion invested in fossil fuel companies.
From El Paso, Texas, to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
Regulators hope sealed enclosures can keep a dangerous chemical from getting loose. Experts think they’re wrong.