Clean industry

Lasers could help cut CO2 emissions from Maine’s paper and pulp mills

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute is testing a new industrial drying technique that uses lasers instead of gas furnaces to dry paper, pulp, and other materials.

By Sarah Shemkus . 22 November 2024

Clean industry

Are concrete makers moving fast enough to switch to lower-carbon products?

A new report says major manufacturers of concrete and cement are dragging their feet on decarbonization — and government inertia isn't helping either.

By Ingrid Lobet . 3 November 2021
Clean industry

Leaders in shipping, aviation and heavy industry chart a path to net zero ahead of COP26

The only catch? They say multitrillion-dollar investments and global regulatory consensus are musts.

By Jeff St. John . 21 October 2021
Hydrogen

Green growth for the Gulf

A huge clean hydrogen project leverages the region's oil and gas know-how for first-mover advantage.

By Julian Spector . 20 October 2021
Hydrogen

The biggest green hydrogen hub in the US could be coming soon to Mississippi

Hy Stor Energy wants to use renewables to produce hydrogen in the oil and gas industry's heartland.

By Jeff St. John . 19 October 2021
Clean industry

Can the US take the lead on cleaner lithium production?

Three companies are attracting private and public funding for their potentially game-changing efforts to extract lithium from brine in California.

By Elizabeth McCarthy . 14 October 2021
Clean energy

The unstoppably good news about clean energy

Kingsmill Bond of Carbon Tracker says the transition to renewables is inevitable based on sheer economics.

By David Roberts . 13 October 2021
Utilities

Newsletter: Greed is good. Or is it?

Utility profit motives seem to clash with the public good in Louisiana.

By Julian Spector . 4 October 2021
Carbon capture

The carbon capture project that couldn't: Chevron misses targets for its huge Australia facility

If one of the richest companies on earth can't get CCS to work as promised, what does that say about the embattled technology?

By Jason Deign . 1 October 2021
Clean industry

This startup wants to use cheap surplus clean energy to make high-temperature industrial heat

California-based Rondo has plans to decarbonize cement production and much more.

By Ingrid Lobet . 30 September 2021
Clean industry

Newsletter: Cleaning up steel, quicker than we thought possible

Plus, game-changing grid equipment and the overhaul of a Trump-era policy bode well for renewables.

By Julian Spector . 30 September 2021