Crude oil production from onshore federal lands has increased in recent years as a result of significant growth in drilling activity and operations. According to data collected by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue, onshore crude oil production from federal lands reached 1.7 million barrels per … [continued]
Tesla this week has signed two major long tern contracts, one with LGES for LFP batteries, the other with Samsung for advanced chips.
In late July 2025, negotiators from the European Union and the United States unveiled what they described as a historic trade agreement. At first glance, the deal appeared momentous. Headlines around the world highlighted Europe’s commitment to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products over a span of just three … [continued]
We spend a lot of time here at CleanTechnica spreading the good news about renewable energy and how it will allow us to electrify everything in accordance with the vision of such notables as Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University. Perhaps that focus blinds us to some aspects of life … [continued]
During an especially cold spell in late January last year, Lynne from Santa Monica started to feel unwell. “I was just feeling really sick, and I thought it had something to do with the medication I was taking,” she recalls. “I had headaches, nausea, and dizziness — it was pretty … [continued]
The recent failure of MethaneSAT, the widely publicized methane-monitoring satellite developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, attracted global attention. The satellite lost communication with ground control in June 2025, just 15 months after its launch, and was officially declared irrecoverable in July. This event disappointed climate scientists, environmentalists, and policymakers … [continued]
In the midst of my career as a high school English teacher, I savored the joyous month of July. It was mine and mine alone. I vacationed and relaxed, sunbathed and gardened. As soon as August 1 rolled around, however, I had to change cognitive gears. It was time to … [continued]
In our recently published Annual Energy Outlook 2025 (AEO2025), we introduce our new Carbon Capture, Allocation, Transportation, and Sequestration module (CCATS), which allows us to model carbon capture in the coming decades. The CCATS module allocates projected supply of captured CO2 across the energy system for either enhanced oil recovery or geologic storage using a … [continued]
In the runup to President Trump’s signing of his “Big Beautiful” spending bill on July 4, some climate activists wondered if Republicans would eliminate all federal subsidies for carbon capture projects, because Trump thinks climate change is a hoax. But the opposite happened. The $4 trillion spending package increases federal subsidies for carbon capture – … [continued]
Elon Musk is now saying that he’s going to start a new political party, because he stormed out of the Democratic Party and then seems to have gotten kicked out of the Trump Party. There’s so much political naivety here, going back years, and it’s quite funny that his next … [continued]
