The U.S. Energy Dept. has withdrawn its federal definition of zero-emissions buildings and ended related technical assistance that many states and owners used as a benchmark. December 5, 2025 The U.S.

U.S. Department of Energy Headquarters, the Forrestal Building, in Washington, D.C. (Payton Chung/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) DOE added that the definition established in 2024 was not a regulatory ...

In a verdict aimed at safeguarding the world's oldest mountain systems, the Supreme Court has accepted a uniform definition of the Aravali Hills and Ranges and banned grant of fresh mining leases ...

Nonrenewable energy sources like fossil fuels are being depleted and will eventually run out. 91% of U.S. energy in 2023 came from nonrenewable sources including petroleum and natural gas. Despite ...

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a law making nuclear energy eligible to fuel the state’s 2050 net-zero emissions goal, opening the door to an industry that’s both emissions-free and potentially ...

Researchers have for the first time measured the first ionization energy of lawrencium, the last of the actinides, validating predictions of the element’s electronic structure (Nature 2015, DOI: ...

Abstract: Spectral diagnosis is the primary approach to understanding the properties and behaviors of thermal plasmas. The partition function cutoff and the lowering of ionization energy directly ...

You want to be happy, right? Of course. Everyone does. But what if your idea of “happy” could use some tweaking? What if your “happiness paradigm” underwent ...