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Brazil’s federal government has committed more than BRL 59 million to a green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Paraíba, signaling a more targeted phase of the country’s energy transition strategy that links decarbonization with industrial competitiveness and fertilizer security.

California’s approval of a 500 MW energy storage project capable of delivering power continuously for up to eight hours underscores how rapidly long duration storage is moving from modeling exercise to permitting reality.

Federal support for US hydrogen hubs, a cornerstone of the country’s clean energy strategy, faces renewed scrutiny after a December court hearing suggested a potential reinstatement of $1.2 billion for California’s ARCHES hydrogen hub.

Frontier, the carbon removal initiative backed by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey, and other corporate partners, has signed a $44.2 million offtake agreement with Canadian biowaste specialist NULIFE GreenTech to remove 122,000 tonnes of CO₂ between 2026 and 2030.

Colorado faces a sudden withdrawal of $109 million in federal transportation and clean energy funding, as the Trump administration moves to cancel projects focused on electric vehicles, EV infrastructure, and rail improvements, including research into hydrogen and natural gas-powered trains.

Getech has secured its first contract in stimulated geologic hydrogen, partnering with GeoKiln on a pilot project in Minnesota that targets hydrogen production directly within iron-rich subsurface formations rather than at the surface.

Iron-sodium batteries, built on sodium metal chloride chemistry, are advancing from laboratory validation into utility-observed system testing.

ExxonMobil’s decision to reduce planned low-carbon spending by roughly one-third marks a sharper turn in the oil and gas sector’s recalibration of energy transition strategies.

Sustainable aviation fuel capacity is expanding far more slowly than airline decarbonization targets require, and the gap is increasingly shaped less by feedstock availability than by project execution risk. Against that backdrop, Samsung E&A’s newly awarded Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for a large-scale SAF facility in Louisiana highlights where bottlenecks are forming in the global SAF market.

A recent public post on LinkedIn by energy commentator Joe Romm discusses concerns highlighted in a Bloomberg analysis regarding U.S. policy on renewable energy and its potential impact on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.