May 2026

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The permit contains significant flaws & inconsistencies that should prompt thorough review by LDEQ. Baton Rouge, LA — Today, Sierra Club submitted a …

XRP Ripple is trading near $1.41, down -0.5% on the day, having recently broken above the $1.40 level that served as resistance through much of 2026’s early digestion phase. That’s a meaningful technical event, but it is also…

FLS says it has been awarded multiple repeat contracts to supply key technologies for a Banded Haematite Quartzite (BHQ) beneficiation – a process of upgrading low-grade iron ore into a premium grade concentrate. The scope…

Solana is doing almost nothing right now, and that might actually matter. SOL price is sitting at $84.94, up just 1.00% on the day, drifting inside a tight intraday band of $84.05 to $85.07. That is not a typo, the entire day’s range…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Crops grown between food harvest cycles or on low-quality land are seen as green solutions for powering planes, but T&E’s new study shows that so-called…

Hyperliquid HIP-4 event contract logged $6.2 million in nominal trading volume on its opening day, May 4, 2026, with 6.05 million contracts changing hands in 24 hours. That’s a record debut for the decentralized perpetual exchange,…

In Bitcoin news today, the BTC USD price crossed $80,000 late Sunday into May 4, 2026, reaching a high of $80,750, and this time, the move looks structural rather than a spike. The $79,537-to-$80,000 band, which had served as a ceiling in…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 98.6% share in Norway, up from 95.2% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew year on year (YoY), and PHEV share declined.…

Cardano is trapped in a range that has resisted every attempt at a clean breakout. Charles Hoskinson, its founder, has spent recent weeks publicly calling Bitcoin “the dumbest and least capable cryptocurrency” and arguing that…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. As I sit at my computer, writing, the Queensland sun is pouring in the window. It is autumn and the expected high temperature is 28 degrees Celsius (82°…