Scotland’s Orbital set to dive into US waters

Orbital Marine Power is set to deploy its floating tidal turbine off Blakely Island in Washington State

Wyoming to ban EVs

The state has taken the decision to ban the sale of new EVs from 2035 to protect its oil and gas industry

US to pay $75m to relocate tribes facing climate threat

Indigenous communities in Washington and Alaska will be moved to higher ground to avoid flooding impacts

US charges four Russian hackers for targeting energy infrastructure

Russian nationals allegedly ‘hacked computers of hundreds of entities’ related to the global energy sector

bp to invest $269m to boost renewable diesel production at US refinery

Three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington aims to improve efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and more than double production to 2.6m a year

Washington signs historic climate legislation into law

Governor Jay Inslee signed the Climate Commitment Act, which will cap and reduce pollution and create revenue for climate investments to help the state accelerate the transition to a clean energy infrastructure and economy

US greenlights $75m grid energy storage research facility

It will include 30 research laboratories, some of which will be testing chambers capable of assessing prototypes and new grid energy storage technologies under real-world grid operating conditions

Microsoft inks deal for hydropower in Washington

It has signed a five-year agreement with the Chelan County Public Utility District

Tunnel holding radioactive waste partially collapses in Washington

A portion of an underground tunnel containing rail cars filled with radioactive waste in Washington collapsed yesterday. It is located next to the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility (PUREX) at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Officials however detected no release of radiation and no workers were injured, according to the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Joint Information […]

Ban Ki-moon: Climate action must be taken to the next level

It is time to take climate action “to the next level”. The comment was made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a speech at the ‘Climate Action 2016’ conference in Washington yesterday. He said: “We need to accelerate the speed, scope and scale of our response, locally and globally.” The two-day event aims to strengthen […]