The federal government of Canada Thursday announced C$19.4 million ($13.7 mln) in clean energy, reliability, and energy efficiency investments across the province of Alberta.

Colorado’s air regulator reported no activity on Thursday from the most recent auction round of the carbon trading programme for manufacturing facilities in the state, as no credits for the 2025 or 2024 vintage years were matched.

Project developers behind around C$5 billion ($3.5 bln) in carbon removal (CDR) projects are sending up flares Canada’s reduced industrial carbon price threatens their viability.

Longer historical reference periods could improve confidence in estimating emissions reductions from reduced deforestation initiatives, according to new research.

Battery-electric trucks and buses offer deeper lifecycle emissions cuts than hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles across US medium- and heavy-duty transport, even under scenarios favourable to hydrogen, according to a new study.

Push to pause - A senior House Democrat on Wednesday called for Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on data centres, citing public concern over the rapid buildout of AI-related infrastructure, E&E News reported. House Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) made the call during an Energy Subcommittee session on legislation aimed at preventing ratepayers from covering the costs of data centre expansion, making him one of the highest-ranking congressional Democrats with jurisdiction over energy and environmental issues to support such a policy.

Power pact - Chevron has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to supply electricity from a planned 2.67 GW gas-fired generation facility co-located with a Microsoft data centre in West Texas. The phased Project Kilby, being developed by Chevron subsidiary Energy Forge One in collaboration with Engine No. 1, is expected to begin delivering power in 2028, subject to a final investment decision by the end of 2026. Chevron said the project is designed to provide dedicated, dispatchable power to the data centre while reducing impacts on the regional grid. The company expects the development to generate more than $10 bln in state and local tax revenue with advanced emissions control technologies incorporated into the facility.

MRV momentum - Guyana launched a new digital monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system initiative on Wednesday aimed at strengthening GHG emissions tracking across industrial processes and product use (IPPU) and other sectors, as part of efforts to improve transparency and access to climate finance. The project, launched by the Department of Environment and Climate Change with support from the Global Green Growth Institute and the Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme, will establish a national digital platform to streamline emissions data collection, management, and reporting, while improving institutional arrangements, building technical capacity, strengthening cross-sector coordination, and aligning Guyana's reporting with international standards to support its climate commitments and low-carbon development strategy through 2030.

Alberta has published its biomass waste combustion for energy generation protocol, following a public comment period.

A US-based tech giant has launched a request for proposals (RFP) seeking emissions reduction interventions across a broad range of hard-to-abate sectors in its value chain.

Platts will remove the annual vintage roll for its Renewable Energy, Nature-Based Avoidance, South America, and Household Devices carbon credit assessments on July 1, the price assessor said Thursday.

A digital infrastructure company has proposed a new framework to monetise the environmental value of leaving commercially recoverable carbon resources untouched, with the preservation capital then directed towards restoration and reclamation activities such as cleaning up legacy coal waste.

The United States, Qatar, Nigeria, and Algeria have warned that the EU’s methane regulation risks disrupting Europe’s oil and gas supplies unless Brussels swiftly freezes the law and amends it to prevent widespread non-compliance.

Direct exposure to carbon markets is limited for food and beverage manufacturers because most fall below emissions thresholds covered by compliance schemes, leading to investment decisions driven largely by fuel-credit programmes, tax incentives, and energy savings, according to a new report.

A California-based marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) company raised $12.5 million in the first close of its latest funding round, targeting application of its technology in other industrial markets.

Companies across the EU and US could mobilise around $17 billion annually for climate action if they adopt the 'advanced' level of the Science Based Targets initiative’s ongoing emissions framework under its newly updated corporate standard, said Gold Standard on Thursday as it released a report setting out how such emissions could be dealt with. 

Good old times - Global natural gas markets are expected to begin stabilising in the third quarter as the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following the US-Iran ceasefire restores energy flows, the secretary general of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) told Reuters. Benchmark crude fell to pre-war levels earlier today. Philip Mshelbila said gas prices and export volumes could return closer to pre-conflict levels by the fourth quarter, although Asian prices may remain elevated in the near term. He added that China's LNG demand would continue to grow despite expanding renewable energy and domestic gas production. Mshelbila also urged the European Union to delay implementing methane-based LNG import rules until globally coordinated standards are agreed.

Chinese multinational technology conglomerate Tencent has unveiled 16 winners for its global initiative designed to help promising climate solutions grow and scale.

A major Japanese bank has decided to invest in a Canadian startup dedicated to carbon removal solutions, eyeing the potential of Japan’s direct air capture (DAC) sector.

California regulator ARB reported a slow-down in issuance of new compliance-eligible offsets over the last two weeks, while seeing the largest amount of credits cross the invalidation expiry year-to-date (YtD).