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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-May-2026 10:15 ET (29-May-2026 14:15 GMT/UTC)

30-Apr-2024

A new paradigm for battery recycling

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne and Toyota are collaborating on a cutting-edge battery recycling process that retains the structure of valuable components. It shows great promise to make battery recycling much more environmentally friendly and profitable.

29-Apr-2024

 

How artificial intelligence can transform U.S. energy infrastructure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A groundbreaking report from the DOE’s national laboratories provides an ambitious framework for using artificial intelligence to accelerate U.S. clean energy deployment in the face of climate change.

29-Apr-2024

   

Better Plants program leads to carbon reduction, cost savings for US manufacturing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It’s a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy’s Better Plants program for more than a decade.

26-Apr-2024

 

Scientists are shaking up lithium extraction with a different kind of chemistry

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have developed a new process, mechanochemical extraction of lithium at low temperatures, or MELLT, to increase and diversify the supply of lithium in the United States.

25-Apr-2024

 

Argonne plays critical role in consortium to advance fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Improving the manufacturing of green hydrogen technologies is key to wide-spread industry adoption. Argonne is part of a consortium dedicated to scaling up, accelerating production and reducing the cost of producing hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers.

25-Apr-2024

 

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries can be made stronger and tougher to better withstand mechanical or structural stresses over time.

Journal

Advanced Science

24-Apr-2024

 

Five facilities at Argonne where climate solutions are front and center

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Learn more about five research centers at Argonne National Laboratory that help researchers bring climate science from the lab to the world.

23-Apr-2024

Beyond higher temperatures: Preparing for national security risks posed by climate change

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Climate scientists and national security experts at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working together to explore the security consequences of the changing climate.

Funder

U.S. Department of Defense

22-Apr-2024

 

Vision of sustainability success: Argonne targets zero emissions and encourages others to join the journey

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne aims to transform its decades-old buildings to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and a safer world. Here are ten ways Argonne has been changing its sustainability practices to meet the future.

22-Apr-2024

 

Breaking down recycling challenges, one slice at a time

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Each day, roughly 43 million Americans eat at least one slice of pizza, according to experts. The hot, cheesy, Italian-inspired dish contributes a whopping $47 billion to the U.S. economy each year, and about a third of those pies come delivered to their destinations in corrugated cardboard boxes.