A federal appeals court declined to halt a North Carolina water permit for the Mountain Valley Southgate pipeline, reinforcing agency discretion in environmental reviews.

A Rhode Island bill would reopen questions about utility-owned generation, storage, reliability, and who should build the power system needed for demand growth.

TerraCycle’s NLR deal adds regulated waste capacity. The move gives business customers broader recycling and compliance support.

Two Arizona rate cases approved increases of up to 300% for small rural water systems with aging infrastructure, reflecting a national pattern Pew and AWWA research puts at $2.1 trillion in need by 2050.

PJM and Talen Energy have filed at FERC to extend the Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner reliability-must-run agreement to May 2031, citing transmission delays driven largely by data center load growth.

AI growth is reshaping data center design. A new framework gives operators a clearer path for managing power, cooling and uptime.

Connecticut DEEP opened two urban and community forestry grant programs totaling $1.23 million, with August 2026 application deadlines and a note that future federal funding is not expected soon.

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.

SolarEdge Nexis is gaining ground through new financing approvals. The move could help installers offer solar and storage with fewer sales barriers.

A 344-foot timber roof is putting snow safety into focus at Vancouver’s PNE Amphitheatre. The project shows why planning for weather starts before installation.

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.

Chloride ions from seawater are drawing new battery research attention. Early solid-state work could support future grid storage beyond lithium.

DOE's Idaho Operations Office approved a preliminary safety analysis for Oklo's Aurora reactor under the Reactor Pilot Program, a staged federal framework for advanced nuclear deployment.

States that voted for President Trump in 2024 accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed during the quarter, with TX, FL, OH, IN, MI, AZ, and MS ranking among the top ten states for new additions

Tariffs, permitting, financing, and policy uncertainty are each stalling projects in 2026. They look the same from a distance. The right response to each one is completely different.

Colorado River storage is shrinking. Businesses face tighter water planning, higher supply risks and fewer buffers against dry years.

Ohio's House passed H.C.R. No. 35 63-32 on June 9, urging Congress to reform federal energy permitting and citing a 2,000-gigawatt interconnection backlog and NEPA timelines near four and a half years.

E2 tracked nearly 8 GW of canceled clean energy capacity and $13 billion in abandoned investment in Q1 2026 alone. The hidden cost is what those projects were supposed to deliver.