ERICA to the Rescue!

Read the full story from the Data Rescue Project. ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are directly hosted by...

A mass exodus begins at the Energy Department

Read the full story at Canary Media. It’s been nearly three months since the Trump administration began sending out ​“fork in the road” emails offering deferred resignation deals to thousands of federal employees. Now, it’s becoming clear how those departures could...

Green commercial leases

Read the full story from Epstein Becker & Green. Green leases are emerging as a key component of commercial leasing, as both landlords and tenants in different industries place an increasing emphasis on sustainability and environmental impact.

How to reconfigure PV modules in degraded solar plants

Read the full story in pv magazine. Indian scientists have developed six different strategies to reconfigure solar modules in degraded PV assets. Their analysis showed which conditions make the reconfiguration of an underperforming solar plant profitable.

Modern slavery and other clean energy ESG risks

Read the full story in pv magazine. Despite debates in some parts of the world, we can expect environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) regulation to continue making headlines in 2025. Everoze Partner Ragna Schmidt-Haupt demystifies the key sustainability...

Robots to work with humans to demonstrate solar module installation

Read the full story at pv magazine. Rosendin, an electrical contracting company, announced that its Renewable Energy Group (RREG) will demonstrate its new autonomous robotic solution for solar module installation on April 17 in West Texas. The three-piece robotic...

In Colorado, gas for cars could soon come with a warning label

Read the full story from Grist. As of 4/23/25, the bill was postponed indefinitely by Senate Committee on Transportation and Energy. View the current status on the Colorado Legislature’s website. The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers...

27 sustainability ideas to implement right now

Read the full story in American Libraries. Greening your library with limited resources and lukewarm buy-in might seem overwhelming. But sustainability is also about committing to small changes. Here’s a list of low-lift ideas that libraries of any type or size can...

Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security

by Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State; Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, and Rod Schoonover, Georgetown University When the natural environment is stretched beyond its ability to meet basic human needs for food, clean air, drinkable water and shelter, it is not...

RFK Jr. Gets Something Right. But for the Wrong Reason

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes are fueling a national cancer “explosion” is both alarmist and unsupported by data. Still,...

Molten Salt Reactors

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, cleaner, and more efficient power without the pressurized headaches of...

Your Facts vs. Mine: Science in the Age of Political Theater

We’re often told to “follow the science”—a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political Rorschach test. A new study in Science reveals that Democrats and...

Webinar: Making Sense of Food Date Labels

Apr 30, 2025, noon CTRegister with ReFED. A survey of U.S. adults in January 2025 found that consumer confusion around food date labels has grown, with 43% reporting they “always or usually” discard food near or past the date on the label. Featuring the researchers...

USDA overhauls climate-smart commodities program

Read the full story at Farm Week Now. USDA is overhauling its Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC) program into a new initiative called Advancing Markets for Producers. Introduced in 2022, the PCSC funded projects that open market opportunities for U.S....

PFAS and product law: Navigating regulatory and legal risks

Read the full story from Hogan Lovells. Regulation and litigation surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a class of organic chemicals used in a variety of industrial and consumer products – is on the rise and evolving day-by-day. And the PFAS...

The challenge of truly clean-powered operations

Read the full story in pv magazine. Growing corporate interest in hourly matching power purchase agreements (PPAs) is expected to drive the pairing of PV, wind, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), with potential broader impacts on the energy procurement market,...

How to propose climate legislation in today’s political climate

Read the full story at Trellis. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.) reintroduced a 2023 bill that would impose a 15 percent tax on imported goods containing aluminum, cement, iron and steel, fertilizer, glass and hydrogen. If passed, the...

Study explores how food manufacturers respond to state regulations

Read the full story from the University of Illinois. When West Virginia recently banned seven artificial food dyes in products to be sold within their borders, they joined an increasing number of individual U.S. states issuing their own regulations about food...

Podcast: Craving a Scapegoat—Is Sugar Really ‘Addictive’?

“Sugar is addictive.” It’s a widespread, well-researched claim—and it’s probably false. The assertion oversimplifies complex eating behaviors driven by an even more complicated cluster of influences. While sugar intake can stimulate reward...

What I Am Reading April 24th

“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” — the corporate version of “oops,” made famous by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Whether it’s exploding rockets, free-riding empires, AI on fast-forward, or a measles bioweapon conspiracy, this week’s reads ask: is breaking stuff the new...

Smarter, greener, better – redefining the future of machine power

by  Jack McGovan, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine Machines have always fascinated Dr Didem Gürdür Broo, a computer scientist from Cyprus with a PhD in mechatronics. It was a childhood dream of hers to learn to code and build things. So, as soon as...

Reflections from My Rostrum: The Conundra of “Comments”

What starts as digital applause can quickly devolve into a chorus of chaos. In the Wild West of online connections, praise, poison, and pseudoscience often sit side by side—especially when the topic is science and the target is women.

The Impending HIV Resurgence

The Trump Administration has gutted many areas of healthcare funding and research, especially in infectious diseases. One area that has been particularly hard hit has been research, prevention, and treatment for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). While the COVID-19...

Flood risks getting worse along US coastlines, new analysis shows

Read the full story at Floodlight. Flooding in coastal areas of the United States is projected to occur 10 times more often over the next 25 years, with about 2.5 million people and 1.4 million homes facing severe property damage from sea level rise, according to a...

Surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs

Read the full story from Lund University. Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental...

More women view climate change as their number one political issue

This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. A new report from the Environmental Voter Project (EVP), shared first with The 19th, finds that far more women than men are...

Cement is a climate menace. Under Trump, fixing it just got harder.

Read the full story at Floodlight. Moves to decarbonize the cement industry picked up speed during the administration of President Joe Biden, which channeled billions of dollars in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) money toward reducing the carbon footprint of concrete...

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