The Justice Department, EPA, and West Virginia DEP announced a landmark $450M multi-state settlement with The Chemours Company over PFAS releases at four facilities — including a $22.5M civil penalty and $90M in pollution control programs.
The fourth edition of the Climate Solutions Prize Festival concluded in Montreal with more than $1.5 million awarded across four prize categories, recognizing climate innovators from Treetack and TerraFixing to the National Research Council of Canada and University of Toronto.
An international research team using the Canadian Light Source has shown that chloride — a readily available component of seawater — could power next-generation solid-state batteries for grid-scale energy storage.
Malaysia is poised to exceed its National Energy Policy's 2040 renewable energy capacity target of 18.43GW by 2031, driven by aggressive large-scale solar tenders, strong policy framework, accessible financing, and rapidly improving grid integration, according to GlobalData.
The Climate Solutions Prize Festival names its 2026 Climate Tech Trailblazer Prize finalists — including water-sector innovators in ocean alkalinity, mine-water treatment and biomaterial water remediation — ahead of the June 8–9 event in Montréal featuring over $1.5 million in prizes.