Climate Tech Newsletter: May 18, 2025

Climate Tech Newsletter: May 18, 2025

Welcome to last week’s edition of the CBKNY’s Weekly News Highlights. Explore the latest policies, innovations, and market trends driving the future of climate tech.

🌱 Climate Tech Insights

Republican efforts to weaken the Inflation Reduction Act are shaking investor confidence, prompting some clean tech firms to reconsider U.S. operations. Meanwhile, global progress continues with major deals and breakthroughs like Denmark’s e-methanol plant and Google's carbon-cutting initiatives.

1. Trump Can End the World Bank’s Climate Hypocrisy
   May 16, 2025 – The Wall Street Journal

2. Republican push to cut green tax credits would raise utility bills, new data shows
   May 15, 2025 – The Guardian

3. How US research cuts are threatening crucial climate data
   May 15, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

4. World's first commercial-scale e-methanol plant opens in Denmark
   May 13, 2025 – Reuters

5. US House targets big climate, clean energy rollbacks in budget proposal
   May 12, 2025 – Reuters

6. Google announces deals for nuclear projects, cutting superpollutants
   May 12, 2025 – ESG Dive

7. Revoking EPA climate rule could trigger carbon boom
   May 12, 2025 – E&E News by POLITICO

8. DOE’s wind, solar, hydrogen offices on chopping block, leaked doc says
   May 15, 2025 – E&E News by POLITICO

9. Canada's largest battery storage farm just opened – and it's Indigenous-led
   May 13, 2025 – Corporate Knights

10. Renewables rebrand as an energy-security must-have
    May 14, 2025 – Cipher News

11. North Carolina eyes grid-enhancing tech to improve aging power lines
    May 15, 2025 – Canary Media

12. The country's biggest grid operator has a new tool to track emissions
    May 14, 2025 – Canary Media

13. Trump’s Spending Cuts Force Clean Techs to Explore US Exit
    May 12, 2025 – Bloomberg

14. UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
    May 15, 2025 – BBC News

15. Climate Policy Outlook: 4 stories to follow this week
    May 12, 2025 – Trellis

16. Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
    May 13, 2025 – TechCrunch

17. House GOP wants to cut parts of the Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others
    May 13, 2025 – TechCrunch

18. Anion Exchange Membranes: The Future of Green Hydrogen?
    May 13, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

19. Khaki is the new green: Climate-tech startups pivot to defense
    May 17, 2025 – PitchBook

20. Researchers Wanted to Understand Concerns With Batteries in Moss Landing, California. Their Funding Just Got Yanked
    May 15, 2025 – Inside Climate News

21. STACK Secures $1.4B Green Financing Backed by North American Data Centers
    May 14, 2025 – ESG News

22. Microsoft Signs Deal with Rubicon Carbon for 18 Million Tonnes of Nature-Based Carbon Removal Credits
    May 14, 2025 – ESG News

23. Climeworks’ New DAC Technology Doubles CO₂ Capture in Real-World Tests with Svante
    May 15, 2025 – ESG News

24. America Closed For Business: Bill Rolling Back IRA Provisions Will Slash Investment
    May 12, 2025 – CleanTechnica

25. How EV Adoption is Reshaping Global Oil Demand: IEA's 2025 Outlook and 2030 Forecast
    May 13, 2025 – Carbon Credits