PFAS, climate litigation, Superfund settlements, and insurance exclusions are converging faster than most executive teams have updated their risk models to reflect.
State laws, public databases, lender due diligence, and permitting reform are expanding the consequences of facility violations well beyond the regulatory fine.
Stone bricks are re-emerging as a lower-carbon alternative in construction. Eco Outdoor’s approach cuts emissions while reusing quarry waste.
Central Bi-Products hit with a $3M MPCA fine after 900+ hydrogen sulfide violations at Long Prairie — and it's not the company's first run-in with regulators.
Two new federal meetings will revisit how radiation dose is reconstructed for energy workers. EHS teams at DOE-connected facilities should take note of the timing.
State attorneys general are filling the federal enforcement void in 2026. For boards that are not paying attention, the legal and financial exposure is arriving faster than expected.
Environmental compliance is no longer just a reporting function — it is showing up in insurance renewals, permit decisions, and capital planning conversations right now.
Grid constraints, ESG complexity, and supply chain pressure are not waiting for Q3.
ESG may be less visible in external messaging, but the underlying exposure has not diminished.
A brewery is generating CO₂ from air on site. The model shows how carbon capture can stabilize supply chains and reshape industrial sourcing.
At WSDS 2026, India's leading researchers and policymakers laid out exactly how dependent the global clean energy transition is on minerals no one has secured yet.
Three separate forces have been building on separate tracks for years. In 2026, they're arriving together. Here's why the timing is not a coincidence — and what it means.
Several compliance deadlines, energy contract cycles, and ESG governance obligations converge this summer. Boards that wait for clarity may find the decisions have already been made for them.
Primo Brands launches watershed stewardship funds in California and Texas, using community-led grants to support conservation, flood resilience, and water resource management.
The USTR has initiated Section 301 investigations into 60 economies — 99% of U.S. import volume — for failing to ban goods produced with forced labor.
U.S. electricity demand is rising fast, driven by AI and electrification trends. A new EPSA campaign is pushing to keep competitive markets central.
Cheniere Energy is seeking approval to export an additional 251 Bcf of LNG annually from its Corpus Christi facility, as DOE begins review under federal law and public comment opens.
Federal deregulation is real. It did not produce a simpler compliance environment. It produced a more fragmented one.
Most boards believe they have ESG oversight covered. The investors and regulators checking their work increasingly disagree. Here's what's actually at stake heading into mid-year.
A Rhode Island House bill moving to committee hearing this week would remove clean coal from the state's list of preferred fuels for energy facility approvals.