Category: Climate change
Heart Aerospace Just Flew The Aviation Transition Investors Should Be Putting Billions Into
Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on August 12 from Plattsburgh International Airport, powered entirely by batteries. The aircraft has a 106-foot wingspan, weighed more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff and drew more than a megawatt at peak. Heart calls it the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown. The … [continued]
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Poland Created Hydrogen Bus Demand. Polenergia Still Walked Away From Supply.
Poland did something hydrogen advocates have spent years saying governments need to do: it created real demand. Public subsidies helped put hydrogen buses into Polish cities, refueling infrastructure received support, and renewable-hydrogen projects were offered public money as well. By April 2026, Poland had 153 hydrogen buses registered, 140 already … [continued]
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Butterfly returns from brink of extinction with help of MSU researchers and Grand Rapids zoo
Michigan State University and partners say they’ve brought the Poweshiek skipperling butterfly back from near extinction.
Invasive carp get closer to Lake Michigan as project to halt their spread is ordered to stop
Invasive carp were detected in the Illinois River only 80 miles from Lake Michigan. The US Army Corp of Engineers ordered a stop-work order on a project to help stop the spread.
Michigan AG challenges the US Department of Energy again over coal plant’s forced operation
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel plans to file a sixth request for rehearing with the United State’s Department of Energy over Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant.