Siemens' new microgrid pairs solar power with battery storage at its Wendell, North Carolina plant. It is built to keep critical production moving in an outage.

A federal judge ordered EPA to finalize its PM2.5 nonattainment designations by February 6, 2027, rejecting the agency's proposed 18-month timeline.

Four U.S. advanced reactor experiments reached criticality by a July 4 target, producing new data on how quickly designs can move from construction to testing.

Rodale is betting $139 million on moving 10 million U.S. acres into organic production. Farmer economics and clear tracking will decide if it works in practice.

Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center plans to run on dedicated natural gas, joining a growing list of AI campuses built to sidestep grid connection queues.

USDA's NRCS found irrigation upgrades to Colorado's centuries-old acequia systems will adversely affect historic properties, opening a mitigation process.

Minnesota regulators approved Xcel Energy's utility-owned distributed battery program, creating a closely watched test of who should own customer-sited storage.

New Hampshire has signed a law directing its Department of Energy to assess transformer vulnerability to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances.

Cigarette butts still lead coastal litter totals. Disposable vapes and nicotine pouches now add batteries, plastics and hazardous residues to this waste stream.

Maryland's Supreme Court vacated a $25,000 fee award in a records case that exposed secret Frederick County talks with Amazon over data center rezoning.

Air Liquide announced three U.S. industrial gas investments in July 2026 totaling over $530 million, tied to semiconductor and chemical manufacturing growth.

New IRP filings from 23 U.S. utilities show a shift to scenario-based forecasting as data centers drive demand, raising planning risk for facilities leaders.

Viridi Energy, backed by Warburg Pincus, began construction on a landfill gas-to-RNG facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, under a city build-own-operate contract.

Rolls-Royce has opened a $24M Mankato facility to expand backup power output. The center will support data centers and other critical infrastructure nationwide.

Missouri and Indiana now require utilities to secure replacement capacity before retiring power plants, as PJM and MISO warn of tightening reserve margins.

North Carolina approved $244 million for water projects after receiving $1.6 billion in requests, showing the gap between infrastructure needs and funding.

NERC cut elevated-risk grid regions from six to three for summer 2026 on record resource additions, but DOE orders are keeping some coal plants online too.

The Center for Rural Affairs is suing the United States after EPA terminated its $62.45 million Solar for All grant following a repeal of IRA funding.

Stryten plans to acquire C&D Technologies and Trojan Battery. The new deal would expand U.S. production and reach across mobility, data center and backup power.

A Bridge Michigan investigation found 100,000 residents live downstream of deteriorating dams, a pattern repeating in states across the country.