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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

Take Care of Yourself, There's an Emergency

Writer's picture: Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick

Well, people were asking for a climate related emergency declaration by the US federal government! The new administration's energy emergency declaration is being covered by press outlets around the world today, and as usual one of the best pieces on it comes from The Guardian. Overturning auto emissions standards, opening up natural gas exports, suspending wind power leases - it's an unsurprising list, yet still shocking.


As Galina Angarova, Executive Director of the SIRGE Coalition (Securing Indigenous Rights in the Green Economy) said this morning in a webinar on the Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition:


"Make sure to take care of yourself of these difficult times and those to come. One thing that is true throughout civilization is that empires come and go, politicians come and go, but peoples and communities stay. That is why it's so important we continue our resistance."

Thanks for joining us here. Let's dig into today's updates and opportunities.


-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Visual of the Day

Hunting in a Warming Ocean

David Salvatori's photographic capture of bottlenose dolphins pursuing sardines off South Africa's coast illustrates Yale E360's report on climate disruption of marine feeding patterns. The image highlights how warming waters are delaying the annual sardine migration, creating a growing mismatch between predators and their prey that threatens delicate ocean ecosystems.


Today's Updates

Table of Contents


  • Agriculture (9 stories) - CH4 Global partners with Mitsubishi on seaweed feed supplements, while Via Campesina challenges bioeconomy policies; solar grazing expands to 27 states as USDA maintains $231B agriculture budget

  • Carbon (6 stories) - Permafrost and Greenland lakes shift to carbon sources; Gravity raises $13M for emissions tracking; Woodcache converts forest waste to biochar; 10,000+ firms adopt science-based targets

  • Circular (1 story) - E-waste recyclers in India extract battery minerals through unsafe informal labor practices

  • Ecosystems (13 stories) - Great Barrier Reef suffers 40-95% coral mortality as Atlantic circulation nears collapse; Santa Ana-driven California fires threaten mountain lions while Brazil secures $528M for forest restoration amid record Amazon blazes

  • Efficiency (4 stories) - AIKO hits 24.2% IBC solar efficiency; indoor farms target 73% solar adoption; MCE-Eden Housing deploys induction cooking; AI energy use estimates questioned

  • Finance (8 stories) - Ameresco earnings call set; CEFC's $200M for Australian carbon farming; AI climate funds seminar; CDP report links profits to climate action; oil prices projected down; California wildfire insurance crisis impacts markets

  • Grid (10 stories) - Ausgrid's Sydney battery rollout, Vistra's Moss Landing fire, Quinbrook's 760MW Queensland project, and PG&E's substation upgrades highlight grid developments amid transmission expansion in Illinois and Tasmania-Victoria

  • Indigenous (15 stories) - Fire Networks expands to 8 states with Indigenous partnerships, while tribes lead prescribed burns from Montana to California; tensions rise over Trump nominee Noem and Arctic drilling amid growing Native-led conservation efforts

  • Industry (10 stories) - Steel, cement, and coal industries face emissions scrutiny while H2SITE, Drax, and Xinjiang Daqo navigate market shifts; Tokamak Energy advances fusion tech as aluminum and hydrogen sectors secure major funding

  • Policy (72 stories) - White House halts offshore wind and exits Paris Agreement while FEMA waives $31M in Sandy aid; Trump declares energy emergency and expands fossil fuels; The Hague bans fossil ads; DOE clean tech funds frozen

  • Renewables (26 stories) - Fervo Energy's $624M funding and 435MW deals lead geothermal surge, while global solar sees China's 276GW deployment, JinkoSolar's UAE megaproject, and multiple GW-scale installations across US, Canada, Malaysia; offshore wind faces policy headwinds

  • Transport (14 stories) - Airbus advances zero-emissions aircraft tech while Canoo files bankruptcy; Tesla targets 1.7M deliveries for 2025; SK On and scientists report battery breakthroughs; Sunswap expands solar transport cooling; synthetic jet fuel emerges as aviation climate solution



Agriculture

CH4 Global partners with Mitsubishi on seaweed feed supplements, while Via Campesina challenges bioeconomy policies; solar grazing expands to 27 states as USDA maintains $231B agriculture budget



Carbon

Permafrost and Greenland lakes shift to carbon sources; Gravity raises $13M for emissions tracking; Woodcache converts forest waste to biochar; 10,000+ firms adopt science-based targets



Circular

E-waste recyclers in India extract battery minerals through unsafe informal labor practices



Ecosystems

Great Barrier Reef suffers 40-95% coral mortality as Atlantic circulation nears collapse; Santa Ana-driven California fires threaten mountain lions while Brazil secures $528M for forest restoration amid record Amazon blazes



Efficiency

AIKO hits 24.2% IBC solar efficiency; indoor farms target 73% solar adoption; MCE-Eden Housing deploys induction cooking; AI energy use estimates questioned



Finance

Ameresco earnings call set; CEFC's $200M for Australian carbon farming; AI climate funds seminar; CDP report links profits to climate action; oil prices projected down; California wildfire insurance crisis impacts markets



Grid

Ausgrid's Sydney battery rollout, Vistra's Moss Landing fire, Quinbrook's 760MW Queensland project, and PG&E's substation upgrades highlight grid developments amid transmission expansion in Illinois and Tasmania-Victoria



Indigenous

Fire Networks expands to 8 states with Indigenous partnerships, while tribes lead prescribed burns from Montana to California; tensions rise over Trump nominee Noem and Arctic drilling amid growing Native-led conservation efforts



Industry

Steel, cement, and coal industries face emissions scrutiny while H2SITE, Drax, and Xinjiang Daqo navigate market shifts; Tokamak Energy advances fusion tech as aluminum and hydrogen sectors secure major funding



Policy

White House halts offshore wind and exits Paris Agreement while FEMA waives $31M in Sandy aid; Trump declares energy emergency and expands fossil fuels; The Hague bans fossil ads; DOE clean tech funds frozen



Renewables

Fervo Energy's $624M funding and 435MW deals lead geothermal surge, while global solar sees China's 276GW deployment, JinkoSolar's UAE megaproject, and multiple GW-scale installations across US, Canada, Malaysia; offshore wind faces policy headwinds



Transport

Airbus advances zero-emissions aircraft tech while Canoo files bankruptcy; Tesla targets 1.7M deliveries for 2025; SK On and scientists report battery breakthroughs; Sunswap expands solar transport cooling; synthetic jet fuel emerges as aviation climate solution


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