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The UK has become the “most expensive place in the world” to build a nuclear power station because of overly complex bureaucracy and regulation, according to a government review.

The nuclear regulatory taskforce was set up by Keir Starmer in February after the government promised to rip up “archaic rules” and slash regulations to “get Britain building”.

Yet another fresh wave of bad publicity has hit the Tesla brand, as CEO Elon Musk continues to cement himself into position as a thought leader in right wing extremist circles.

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Renault will bring its software defined Trafic E-Tech panel van to market in 2026, with a range of features aimed at commercial customers.

The post Renault Trafic E-Tech Electric Van — 800 Volt Platform & Much More appeared first on CleanTechnica.

I received an interesting email the other day. The website American Trucks apparently conducted a survey exploring how many drivers were turning to AI for DIY repair and maintenance help. I have to be honest — I would not have thought to explore this topic. I’m also not the biggest ... [continued]

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Nissan is banking on the all new 2026 Nissan LEAF to pump up its EV sales in the US, riding a wave of publicity from the car's inclusion as a Top 3 Finalist in the North American Utility Vehicle of the Year award program.

The post President Trump’s Brain Is Officially Fried, But EVs Just Keep Getting Better appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The steady stream of good EV charger news keeps coming — this one is for over 850 new public chargers planned by IONNA for northern and central California.  “A huge thank you to Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉, Senator Scott Wiener, City Attorney David Chiu, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Commissioner David Hochschild, ... [continued]

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Part of the chain of renewable energy and the transition from fossil fuels is how to handle carbon-intensive products and byproducts of society and push for low carbon content at source, at processing, or disposal. At Rockwell Automation’s 2025 Automation Fair, a panel of industry leaders offered a rare, unified ... [continued]

The post Mapping A Low-Carbon Industrial Future With Hydrogen, Depolymerization appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens

Wildfires have devastated more moorland, forests and fields in the UK this year than at any time since records began, putting huge pressure on the country’s fire service, figures show.

The Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares (116,204 acres) in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022.

Waymo confused people a bit on Friday, while announcing new territory it will be going into. As I wrote the other day, Waymo’s new custom-designed Zeekr robotaxi has been spotted in San Diego. Waymo doesn’t offer service in San Diego, though. That said, San Diego is one of the most ... [continued]

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Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover

In May 2023, a lightning strike hit the forest in Donnie Creek, British Columbia, and the trees started to burn. It was early in the year for a wildfire, but a dry autumn and warm spring had turned the forest into a tinderbox, and the flames spread rapidly. By mid-June, the fire had become one of largest in the province’s history, burning through an area of boreal forest nearly twice the size of central London. That year, more of Canada burned than ever before.

The return of cold and snow at the close of the year typically signal the end of the wildfire season. But this time, the fire did not stop. Instead, it smouldered in the soil underground, insulated from the freezing conditions by the snowpack. The next spring, it reemerged as a “zombie fire” that continued to burn until August 2024. By then, more than 600,000 hectares (1.5m acres) had been destroyed.

The results of COP 30 are in and the environment lost big time at this year's conference in Brazil, thanks to fossil fuel lobbying.

The post The Final Score At COP30 — Fossil Fuels: 1600, Earth: 0 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Alison Gaffney believes her son’s rare leukaemia was caused by dumped toxic waste from the town’s steelworks

Alison Gaffney and Andy Hinde received the devastating news that their 17-month-old son, Fraser, had a rare type of leukaemia in 2018.

Two years of gruelling treatment followed, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, before a stem cell transplant. Fraser, then aged three, made a “miraculous recovery” from the surgery, before doctors declared the cancer in remission.

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

• Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence

The 30th conference of the parties (Cop30), the annual climate summit of all nations party to the UNFCCC, just ended. Stakeholders are out in the media trying spin the outcome as a win. Simon Stiell, climate change executive secretary for the UN is, for instance, praisingCop30 for showing that “climate cooperation is alive and kicking, keeping humanity in the fight for a liveable planet”. But let us be clear. The conference was a failure. Its outcome, the decision text known as the Global Mutirão or Global Collective Effort, is, in essence, a form of climate denial.

In 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) determined that the world had already developed, or planned to develop, too much fossil fuel to be able to halt global heating at 2C. It acknowledged that the capital assets built up around fossil fuels must be stranded – that is to say, abandoned and not used – if warming was to be limited to 2C. But the Cop30 decision text ignores all this. Indeed, it never even mentions fossil fuels.

Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence, and the author of The Language of Climate Politics

On Friday, XPENG rolled its millionth vehicle off the assembly line and delivered it to its first customer. The silver X9 EREV (extended range electric vehicle), with XPENG’s latest generation of intelligent driving system, had its official sales launch the day before and represents the next stage in the company’s ... [continued]

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Conchologists, and citizen scientists team up to seek out endangered mollusc species along River Thames

It is tiny, hairy and “German” – and it could be hiding underneath a piece of driftwood near you. Citizen scientists and expert conchologists are teaming up to conduct the first London-wide search for one of Britain’s most endangered molluscs.

The fingernail-sized German hairy snail (Pseudotrichia rubiginosa) is found in fragmented patches of habitat mostly along the tidal Thames.

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief

The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.

Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation.

Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

In the next few years, spades could be in the ground for a city made of wood, in the middle of the largest new nature reserve created in England in decades, with four-bedroom homes on sale for £350,000.

It sounds too good to be true, but a cross-party coalition of campaigners is trying to make a “forest city” to house a million people a reality, with construction commencing by the end of this parliament. It would be the first such project in England since the purpose-built new town of Milton Keynes in the 1960s.

As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants

Each day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourhood of Mahul on Mumbai’s eastern seafront, down streets lined with stalls selling tomatoes, bottle gourds and aubergines–and, frequently, through thick smog.

Earlier this year, doctors found three tumours in his 54-year-old mother’s brain. It’s not clear exactly what caused her cancer. But people who live near coal plants are much more likely to develop the illness, studiesshow, and the residents of Mahul live a few hundred metres down the road from one.

VinFast is expanding its presence in Indonesia with new vehicle launches and the upcoming start of operations at its Subang assembly plant. The Vietnamese automaker received two awards at the Road to CNBC Indonesia Awards 2025 and unveiled two models at the GAIKINDO Jakarta AutoShow 2025. At the auto show ... [continued]

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In western Chad, villagers are desperately trying to hold back the sand as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on one of the hottest countries in the world

On the ochre sands of Kanem, the neat vegetable gardens and silver-green palm trees of Kaou oasis stand out, incongruous in this desert province of 70,000 sq km in western Chad.

Oases such as this, on the edge of the Sahara, have sustained human life in the world’s deserts for thousands of years. Globally, an estimated 150 million people rely on the water, arable land and access to trade networks they provide. But in Chad, such oases are disappearing fast.