Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-fired power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead—from coal ash waste landfills into U.S. waterways. In September 2025, Donald Trump’s EPA gave coal plant companies a pass by delaying enforcement of long-overdue wastewater protections from coal … [continued]
Landfills are not designed for food waste, which is organic and can decompose naturally. While it’s easy to throw out dinner scraps with the garbage, it’s not the most environmentally-sound method to discard unwanted food. In fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency admits that, while total emissions from municipal solid waste … [continued]
Viridi recently announced one of its battery energy storage systems has replaced a diesel backup generator at a wastewater facility in New York State. When we write about battery storage on this site, sometimes it is paired with solar power to store excess clean electricity. Energy storage has other applications, … [continued]
The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has been stimulating, funding, and supporting early-stage energy technologies and companies for several years now, since it was formed in 2009 under the Obama administration. From cutting-edge batteries to next-gen solar, ARPA-E aims to be ahead of the curve … [continued]
The US firm ENTEK is among the many energy storage stakeholders jockeying for an edge on the LFP battery supply chain.
If all goes according to plan, one wastewater treatment plant in California will demonstrate a solar power and energy efficiency model for others to follow.
Berlin gets creative with renewable energy and energy storage in race against Russian gas cutoff this winter.
The new Northvolt factory will use recycled wastewater for cooling.
Back in January, I wrote an article about how Steel Dynamics had plans to dump E. coli and more toxins into Texas freshwater*. In a nutshell, Steel Dynamics is constructing a steel mill in south Texas and wanted to dump industrial wastewater into the river system there. It was noted … [continued]
Hawaii has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and yet there are serious water quality issues to content with, primarily due to the large quantity of cesspools in the State. This is a huge issue for all of the islands, and impacts the health of humans, animals, and our ocean ecology. Here’s the story of a local non-profit that’s working to fix this crappy situation.
