The U.S. Energy Department on Sep. 19 announced a $156 million grant to establish a unique refinery facility for separating rare earth elements and critical minerals from mining wastes and other unconventional sources. Rare earth elements and critical minerals are considered important for clean energy technologies’ manufacturing. The funding, provided by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sept. 20 signed an executive order to expedite attempts to make state operations more sustainable. Moreover, the Governor also declared that state organisations and government departments, accounting for an anticipated $50 billion in funds, have pledged to attain net zero emissions in their investment portfolios by 2040. The announcement…...
The U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has given California the go ahead to begin using federal infrastructure funding to develop electric vehicle charging stations across the state’s interstates and highways resulting from the latest federal authorization of a joint proposal by Caltrans and the California Energy Commission. The approval of the California Deployment…...