World:
¶ “Soaring Coffee Prices Rewrite Daily Routines For Some Americans” • Nearly all coffee consumed in the US is imported. Tariffs drove US prices up for some coffee in 2025, but they have been removed. Global prices have been driven up by climate: damage from drought in Vietnam, heavy rain in Indonesia, and hot, and dry weather in Brazil. [ABC News]
Coffee beans ready for harvest (Dang Cong, Unsplash)
¶ “Canada, California, And Europe: Three Ways To Force EV Adoption” • Here we compare Canada’s approach to EVs with two other regulatory systems designed to reduce emissions from new vehicles. They are California’s ZEV credit program and the European Union’s fleet average CO₂ standards with penalty backstops and pooling. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Geely And BYD Are Top Bidders For Nissan-Mercedes Plant, Potentially Expanding Mexican EV Production” • Recent reports out of Mexico indicate that Nissan and Mercedes are selling a joint venture factory in Mexico, and the top bidders have been narrowed down to BYD and Geely. Chinese firms are taking 20% of the Mexican new car market. [CleanTechnica]
Renault-Nissan factory site (Nissan image)
¶ “Latin America’s Bold Renewable Energy Bet” • As the US is taking a back seat in renewable energy, the industry is taking off elsewhere. Latin America is attracting increased attention from international investors thanks to its strong renewable energy and critical mineral potential. Both the region’s green energy and is adoption of EVs are growing. [OilPrice.com]
¶ “Inox Clean Energy Ties Up With R J Corp In Renewable Energy Foray In Africa” • Inox Clean Energy, an integrated renewable energy platform in India, announced a joint-venture foray with RJ Corp, a multinational food and healthcare group, into African renewable energy markets, marking a milestone in its global growth journey. [MSN]
Wind farm near Cape Town (Doug Bagg, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “TEPCO Fixes The Instrument Glitch At Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant” • Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said it has fixed a malfunction found in a measuring instrument for the No 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture by replacing parts. The reactor has been down since the Fukushima Disaster. [The Japan Times]
US:
¶ “US Ocean Regulator Faces Criticism Over Changes To Right Whale Protection Rule” • NOAA said in a statement to The Associated Press that it plans to announce proposed new rules designed to “modernize” the whale protections. The proposal will be a “deregulatory-focused action.” No specific information on the action has been given so far. [ABC News]
Right whale (New England Aquarium, Moira Brown)
¶ “How EPA Rolling Back Endangerment Finding On Emissions Could Impact Health” • The EPA is rescinding the endangerment finding of 2009, which determined that six key greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. Some top environmental scientists say the rescission is concerning and could have major implications for health. [ABC News]
¶ “America’s New Maritime Plan Is Competing For The Wrong Century” • The new U.S. Maritime Action Plan, available from the White House Maritime Insights page, is serious policy work. A lot of effort went into it, but it tries to restore competitiveness using a 20th century framework in a shipping market that is already shifting under it. [CleanTechnica]
Cargo ship (John Simmons, Unsplash)
¶ “Whether The Endangerment Finding Stays Or Goes Will Be Up To The Supreme Court” • President Trump claimed, without evidence, that dropping the endangerment finding would reduce regulatory costs by $1.3 trillion, not mentioning its benefits. But before current action is over, the issue will no doubt be weighed by the Supreme Court. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “New Energy Storage Solutions Are Killing Trump’s Coal Power Fantasy” • Hydrostor announced that it signed a 50-MW offtake agreement with California Community Power. This is a major milestone on the route to building Hydrostor’s first 500-MW A-CAES (advanced compressed air energy storage) facility in California. [CleanTechnica]
Compressed air energy storage (Hydrostor screenshot)
¶ “UCSB Scientists Develop ‘Liquid Battery’ That Stores Sunlight As Heat” • Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new kind of “liquid battery” that can capture sunlight and release it later as heat, a breakthrough researchers say could help solve one of renewable energy’s intermittency problem. The discovery was published in the journal Science. [KTLA]
¶ “Recycled Nuclear Fuel Key To Breaking Russia’s Energy Grip” • As a part of the US push to revitalize its aging nuclear energy sector, the DOE is funding a wave of research into recycling used nuclear fuel. This move comes as a part of a broader effort to increase energy independence by reducing reliance on global energy value chains. [OilPrice.com]
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