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Sierra Club Urges Congress to Reauthorize EV Charging Program in Upcoming Funding Deal WASHINGTON, D.C. - The national electric vehicle (EV) charging network is making tangible progress: Texas recently awarded $226 million for 321 new charging stations funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program; Arizona just opened its first ... [continued] The post States Continue to Make Progress on EV Charging Infrastructure appeared first on CleanTechnica.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Linn County Board of Supervisors denied a rezoning application for the proposed Morgan Valley Energy Center in a unanimous 3-0 vote last night. Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, is proposing three single-cycle gas-fired power plants in Linn County. The ... [continued] The post Sierra Club Iowa Responds: Local Officials Reject Re-zoning Request for Alliant's Morgan Valley Gas Plant appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Butte, MT - On Wednesday, conservation groups sued to overturn a Trump administration rule that leaves threatened wildlife with no certain, meaningful protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Read the complaint here. Plaintiffs represented by Earthjustice - including the Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, National Parks Conservation Association, Humane World ... [continued] The post Sierra Club, Conservation Groups File Lawsuit Aimed at Restoring Protections for Threatened Wildlife appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Ecological grief is growing-and our current approach to climate change education isn't keeping pace.

I haven't covered a Tesla earnings release and call in a while, but I thought I'd give a quick summary since this quarter was pretty interesting. Last quarter I wrote this after the delivery release, but I didn't write up the earnings call. Observations From The Shareholder Deck: Gross margin ... [continued] The post Tesla Reports A Great 3rd Quarter, Robotaxi & FSD Finally Taking Off appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Deepway Star semi trailer from China joins the growing number of trucking brands on Australian roads. Information was shared over LinkedIn, Facebook, and through phone interview. Mark Blackburn, Managing Director of VCF Transport Services, is not only proud of the newest acquisition to their logistics fleet, but also keen to ... [continued] The post Not the Future, It's Now - Deepway Electric Semi Put to Work in Australia appeared first on CleanTechnica.

In many African cities, a broken fridge is rarely thrown away immediately. It may be repaired and resold, dismantled for spare parts or collected for its metal components.

Rio Tinto wants to put Australia's cheap midday electricity to work at its Yarwun alumina refinery – by storing it in hot bricks and using that heat battery to make steam after the sun sets. more . . .

Tesla said today it will sell Cybercab to consumers by the end of this year, raising questions of what end users would do with a vehicle with no steering wheel and no self-driving software. more . . .

Ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP31) meeting in Antalya, Turkiye, held in Nov. 2026, an expert writing in The BMJ's climate issue argues that accurate data on greenhouse gas emissions during armed conflict is urgently needed to hold militaries, governments and individuals accountable for the environmental impact of war.

Investing more in the military is not a solution to climate change and may cost us our security, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue. In the first article, Neta Crawford at the University of St Andrews says the view that climate change is a "threat multiplier" that may cause instability and provoke conflict is leading governments to justify higher defense spending.

Tesla now says unsupervised "Full Self-Driving" in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It's the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade. But there's a catch. On Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call today, AI chief Ashok Elluswamy described it as owners adding their own vehicles to Tesla's managed Robotaxi fleet, not owners getting a car that drives them anywhere they want to go. more . . .

Under the most optimistic scenario, global warming would rise 1.7 to 1.8 degrees above pre-industrial levels, despite renewables expanding considerably over the last decade. By Lauren Dalban A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme suggests that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is no longer a realistic outcome, even under the most ambitious emissions-reduction scenarios.

Buried in a press release titled, "Even more colours and even greater convenience for the Cayenne Electric" was news that Porsche, for the first time, would be offering electrically wireless inductive charging on its impressively powerful Cayenne Electric SUV. more . . .

A new report by Earth Insight finds more than 61.5 million hectares (151.9 million acres) of protected and conserved areas - an area roughly 2.5 times the size of the United Kingdom - overlap with ongoing and planned oil and gas blocks across the tropical countries. Another 42.7 million hectares (105.5 million acres) of protected lands overlap with mining blocks or concessions. "[The] analysis reveals a major gap between conservation commitments and the industrial pressures facing areas already counted as protected and conserved," Florencia Librizzi, deputy director at Earth Insight . . .

Delegates from most of the world's governments are assembling this week in Yerevan, Armenia for the latest summit of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), whose aim is to prevent the extinction of our fellow creatures, and promote sustainable and just land use. There could be no more fitting location: in the Bible, Mount Ararat is where Noah's Ark found dry land after the great flood – and where the animals he had rescued, two by two – finally disembarked: "But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a . . .