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Colorado School of Mines and ElementUSA have been awarded $67 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a plant for the extraction and processing of rare earth elements from alumina tailings in Louisiana. The project in…

Solana has launched native subscription and recurring payment infrastructure directly on its blockchain, audited by security firms Cantina and Spearbit, live on mainnet, and already being integrated by companies including Helius, Confirmo,…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Perhaps all the talk of US EV sales crashing was a bit premature! Or perhaps Hyundai has just decided to buck the trend and go its own way. We’ll get much…

A collaboration between BHP and Microsoft is accelerating discovery of advanced copper leaching solutions to unlock value, the mining major says. Copper leaching is complex and discovering better ways to recover copper from ore has relied…

Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is preparing to mine Bitcoin using electricity generated from sugarcane waste in Brazil, and the pilot is set to go live by July 1, 2026. The operation, run through…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Like its close cousin Hyundai, Kia didn’t get the memo that electric vehicle sales are supposed to be dropping in the United States. In the month of May, the…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. When the French energy firm TotalEnergies took a buyout of almost $1 billion from the Trump administration in return for walking away from from two federal…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It’s been a long time coming, but Waymo is finally rolling out the Ojai, a Zeekr-produced robotaxi model, for passenger trips. It definitely looks more…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BYD’s passenger vehicle sales may be in a transitionary moment, going from year-over-year drops in the beginning of the year to a big sales rise in the…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. South Africa’s electric vehicle market has reached a pivotal moment, with commercial fleets proving substantial economic advantages and consumer interest…