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Energy

The Department of Energy Is ‘Giving Away the Future of Manufacturing’

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright canceled 24 decarbonization grants worth $3.7 billion.

Climate Tech

The Climate Tech Investor Who Won’t Touch DAC

Especially with carbon capture tax incentives on the verge of disappearing, perhaps At One Ventures founder Tom Chi is onto something.

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Politics

Carbon Capture May Not Have Been Spared After All

The House budget bill may have kept the 45Q tax credit, but nixing transferability makes it decidedly less useful.

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Sparks

Rhizome Raises $6.5 Million for AI Grid Resilience

The company will use the seed funding to bring on more engineers — and customers.

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The Capitol and the Crux logo.

What Happens to Crux If Transferability Ends?

The buzzy clean energy tax credit marketplace expanded into debt right in the nick of time.

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Why Air Products Investors Revolted Against Clean Hydrogen

The company has a new CEO and a new strategy — to refocus on its “core business.”

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Climate Tech

A New Green Hydrogen Partnership? In This Economy?

Ecolectro, a maker of electrolyzers, has a new manufacturing deal with Re:Build.

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By all outward appearances, the green hydrogen industry is in a state of arrested development. The hype cycle of project announcements stemming from Biden-era policies crashed after those policies took too long to implement. A number of high profile clean hydrogen projects have fallen apart since the start of the year, and deep uncertainty remains about whether the Trump administration will go to bat for the industry or further cripple it.

The picture may not be as bleak as it seems, however. On Wednesday, the green hydrogen startup Ecolectro, which has been quietly developing its technology for more than a decade, came out with a new plan to bring the tech to market. The company announced a partnership with Re:Build Manufacturing, a sort of manufacturing incubator that helps startups optimize their products for U.S. fabrication, to build their first units, design their assembly lines, and eventually begin producing at a commercial scale in a Re:Build-owned factory.

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Climate Tech

Nobody Understands What Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Will Do

Not even the companies that — on the surface, at least — seem most likely to benefit from them.

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Amidst the chaos of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime so far, there has been one constant — the 25% levies on steel and aluminum imports applied in February, with no country-specific exemptions. I’ve been a bit befuddled as to what these tariffs may, or may not, mean for the companies trying to green these notoriously hard-to-decarbonize sectors. And it turns out, some of them are a bit befuddled, too.

“It’s a mixed bag,” Cody Finke, CEO of the Bay Area-based clean cement and alumina startup Brimstone told me. Brimstone’s core breakthrough is figuring out a way to co-produce cement and alumina — the core material in the critical mineral aluminum — using carbon-free calcium silicates such as basalt rather than limestone, which releases a lot of CO2 when it’s processed.

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