Toyota is among the legacy automakers banking on the vehicle electrification movement to persist in the US, despite the challenges posed by Trump-era policy changes impacting EV sales (screenshot, 2027 bZ courtesy of Toyota).
Harvard economists calculate that EV sales will accelerate rapidly in the US, despite last year’s sharp U-turn in federal energy policy.
A Vermont National Guard helicopter surveys flood damage in the state's capital, Montpelier, Vt., July 11, 2023. Credits: U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Michael Davis via NASA
Montana may seem like a solidly red state, but its people tend to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic in their views. For instance, Section I of Article IX of the Montana Constitution reads: The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for … [continued]
More than 300,000 plant-protection drones now perform roughly 203 million hectare-treatments annually in China. The market has moved beyond adoption into service, maintenance, renewal and operating standards.
Agricultural spray drones are no longer an emerging technology in China. They are ordinary farm machinery at extraordinary scale. China entered 2026 with about 309,000 plant-protection drones, and those aircraft performed roughly 203 million hectare-treatments during 2025. A hectare treated three times counts as three hectare-treatments, so that figure measures … [continued]
A veritable bonfire of anticipation is building around the new Elon Musk documentary "Musk," with a generous assist from none other than the King of Publicity, Musk himself (courtesy of Jigsaw productions via imdb).
A veritable bonfire of anticipation is building around the new Elon Musk documentary “Musk,” with a generous assist from none other than the King of Publicity, Musk himself.
“Swift,” the supercomputer purchased by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, is located in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) HPC Data Center in the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
Sierra Club Applauds Governor Abigail Spanberger’s Data Center Executive Order and Policy Framework Release Richmond, VA — Today, Governor Abigail Spanberger announced protections regarding data center development in Virginia via executive order and a broad policy framework. The executive order curbs some consequential impacts of data center growth related to … [continued]
Now Europe must unlock e-SAF investment. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published today its Annual Technical Report on ReFuelEU Aviation (for 2025 data), providing the first full picture of the EU sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market since the Regulation’s mandatory targets came into force. The report sends an … [continued]
Farm electrification is several different operating problems sharing one electrical platform. Stationary loads, redesignable services and narrow-window seasonal work require different investment sequences.
Ask whether agriculture can electrify and the conversation usually arrives at the same machine within minutes: the tractor. More specifically, the large diesel tractor working hard through planting, harvest or another narrow seasonal window. It is a legitimate engineering challenge, but it is a poor organizing principle for farm electrification. … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is finalizing two new regulations that will undermine the implementation of federal protections for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the nation’s cornerstone conservation law. One rule rescinds the longstanding blanket 4(d) rule, ending the practice of automatically extending key ESA protections from killing, injury, … [continued]
A new T&E study finds expansions across twenty of Europe’s largest airports overshoot the 1.7 °C emissions budget by up to three times Planned expansions at twenty of Europe’s largest airports are incompatible with national climate targets and global warming limits. According to new research by T&E, the planned increases … [continued]
Under the ReFuelEU regulation, jet fuel suppliers face a dedicated sub-mandate requiring a growing share of synthetic aviation fuel (e-SAF), i.e. SAF produced from green hydrogen combined with captured CO2, starting in 2030. Despite this obligation being known for years, most fuel suppliers have not developed their own e-SAF production … [continued]
