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Interior Department moves to exempt Alaska winter drilling from project-level environmental reviews

The U.S. Interior Department is working on a rule that would let winter oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska move forward without project-specific environmental review.…

By Kelly Lippke · September 5, 2026

Alaska

Alaska

Interior Department moves to exempt Alaska winter drilling from project-level environmental reviews

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

Sempra

Sempra files for permits to add 27 mtpa LNG expansion at Port Arthur, Texas

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

Energy

Fire at Hemisphere Energy’s Atlee Buffalo battery destroys three treaters and halts 75% of company production

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

Saudi

Saudi Aramco signs $3.7 billion in potential deals with French firms covering drilling equipment and AI technology

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

A blowout preventer stack suspended over a rig moonpool

West of Shetland a rig let 1 blowout preventer fall thirty six hundred feet to the seabed when a single motor tripped, and the emergency brakes were built to slow a load rather than stop one

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

Rockhopper

Rockhopper’s Sea Lion field valuation rises by $788 million after updated independent reserves assessment

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 4

Earthquake sensors are picking up hurricane signals that aircraft are too dangerous to collect and scientists say it could finally unlock the storm s most deadly secret

Earthquake sensors are picking up hurricane signals that aircraft are too dangerous to collect, and scientists say it could finally unlock the storm’s most deadly secret

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 5

Solar platforms on steel piles above a shallow bay

A bay off Shandong that grows winter ice sheets got 1 gigawatt of solar bolted onto steel piles driven 56 feet down, and the first hard freeze since it switched on has not arrived yet

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

mussels attached to offshore solar farm

Scientists stocked a virtual North Sea solar farm with mussels, then kept making the farm bigger until the math revealed a problem: every extra panel left less food on the table for each shellfish

By Anke Maree · Sep 5

Rows of floating panels drifting loose on a flooded mine lake

Across 51,000 floating panels on a German coal pit turned lake, the outer rows tore loose before a single kilowatt reached the grid and the wind that did it peaked near 31 miles per hour

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

Avantus $300 million in tax equity financing

Avantus secures $300 million in tax equity financing for the Aratina 2 solar-and-storage project in California

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 5

Soluna 28 MW Bitdeer deployment

Soluna adds a 28 MW Bitdeer deployment to its Texas data center, where wind power is becoming part of the computing stack

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 5

Sharks are now carrying ocean sensors through storm feeding waters and hurricane forecasters are paying close attention as offshore wind farms reshape the data landscape beneath Atlantic hurricanes

Sharks are now carrying ocean sensors through storm-feeding waters and hurricane forecasters are paying close attention as offshore wind farms reshape the data landscape beneath Atlantic hurricanes

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 5

Maine wind turbines

After nearly two decades of failed attempts, Maine’s wind power ambitions are closer to reality than ever before — regulators just approved 800 MW of turbines and a transmission line shared by four states

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

First turbine installation at a German North Sea farm 50 km offshore

An installation vessel loaded 5 complete turbine sets in port and sailed 31 miles past the last German island, and the first machine it stood up was feeding the grid six weeks later

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

Over a million Sandhill Cranes converge on Nebraska each spring and a landmark new ruling just drew a firm line to keep their ancient migration route safe from wind turbines

Over a million Sandhill Cranes converge on Nebraska each spring and a landmark new ruling just drew a firm line to keep their ancient migration route safe from wind turbines

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 4

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Burial mounds

A ridge above a Suffolk village held 11 burial mounds in the path of a 4 mile road to a nuclear site, and the richest of them had a harnessed horse in a pit of its own

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

mountains lions drinking water nuclear testing site

Three mountain lions walked up to a spring inside America’s old nuclear test site, and that same night a herd of wild donkeys arrived at the very same water

By Anke Maree · Sep 5

On a tropical island built around tourism, a 1,200 MW Chinese reactor sent its first electricity to the grid last month, and the country’s total nuclear capacity has overtaken France for the first time

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 4

mountain line capture old nuclear test site

Cameras hidden around America’s old nuclear test site took 393 pictures of mountain lions in one year, and at least four cats now call the restricted desert home

By Anke Maree · Sep 4

Fossilized proto-whale bones at the Georgia nuclear plant construction excavation site

A crew cutting the foundation of a Georgia nuclear plant hit bone 30 feet down, and the animal they had opened turned out to be a whale that could not yet swim with its tail

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 4

Uranium

U.S. uranium concentrate production reached 2.1 million pounds in 2025, the highest output since 2017

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Canada

Record-low reservoirs and a drought-stricken Canada are quietly pulling the plug on America’s hydropower foundation, and the clean energy future that depends on it

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

Solar farm rows at varying tilt angles illustrating the solar panel tilt angle latitude rule problem, world s solar

Nearly 45 percent of the world’s installed solar capacity sits at a tilt angle that costs it more than 1 percent of its output, and the yearly loss is roughly what Luxembourg consumes

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 5

Energy

TC Energy picks Worley, EllisDon, and AECOM to advance Ontario Pumped Storage Project engineering phase

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 5

Aduro

Aduro names Saipem as engineering partner for its first industrial-scale HCT plant at Chemelot

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 4

Flooded zinc mine tunnels chosen for a compressed air plant

Groundwater refilled the tunnels of a South Australian zinc mine for 5 years after the pumps came out, and that flooded rock was exactly what a compressed air plant needed before the project was dropped

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 4

DOE

DOE and Montana release Final Environmental Impact Statement for 422-mile North Plains Connector transmission line

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Boston

A Boston startup is testing underground lightning strikes to turn ancient rock into a hydrogen factory using machines named Zeus and Thor

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 24

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Aug 22

Power to Hydrogen 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer

Power to Hydrogen delivers its first commercial 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer from Ohio to a customer in Antwerp

By Prince Sibanda · Aug 19

Plug Power U.S. hydrogen operations

Plug Power scales U.S. hydrogen operations with 1,666 fuel cell deployments and 40 tons of daily production capacity

By Prince Sibanda · Aug 19

Hydrogen

Highland Council approves Protium’s 15 MW Cromarty Green Hydrogen Production Facility in Alness, Scotland’s only HAR1-backed hydrogen project

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 16

Sasol

Sasol commissions Envision Energy to conduct green hydrogen design study at Sasolburg facility in South Africa

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 11

An old North Sea gas platform began producing hydrogen using wind power and sent it ashore through the same pipeline it was already using

An old North Sea gas platform began producing hydrogen using wind power and sent it ashore through the same pipeline it was already using

By Anke Maree · Aug 11

Hydrogen

A tiny iron piece smaller than a virus just outperformed the precious metal that has powered hydrogen fuel cells for decades

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 8

Latest News

1

Sempra files for permits to add 27 mtpa LNG expansion at Port Arthur, Texas

Sep 5

2

Fire at Hemisphere Energy’s Atlee Buffalo battery destroys three treaters and halts 75% of company production

Sep 5

3

Earthquake sensors are picking up hurricane signals that aircraft are too dangerous to collect, and scientists say it could finally unlock the storm’s most deadly secret

Sep 5

4

Soluna adds a 28 MW Bitdeer deployment to its Texas data center, where wind power is becoming part of the computing stack

Sep 5

5

A bay off Shandong that grows winter ice sheets got 1 gigawatt of solar bolted onto steel piles driven 56 feet down, and the first hard freeze since it switched on has not arrived yet

Sep 5

6

Record-low reservoirs and a drought-stricken Canada are quietly pulling the plug on America’s hydropower foundation, and the clean energy future that depends on it

Sep 5

7

Saudi Aramco signs $3.7 billion in potential deals with French firms covering drilling equipment and AI technology

Sep 5

8

A ridge above a Suffolk village held 11 burial mounds in the path of a 4 mile road to a nuclear site, and the richest of them had a harnessed horse in a pit of its own

Sep 5

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