Tricia Crimmins

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

President Trump’s tariff bonanza will undoubtedly affect farmers, who are already preparing for the worst: lower incomes, higher production costs, and the potential shuttering of smaller farms. But some sustainable ag tech companies could take advantage of a moment when farmers may want to “stretch their dollar” by downsizing fields and using smaller, more precise equipment than tractors, Hylio CEO Arthur Erickson told Tech Brew.

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

Just a year ago, the Biden administration’s Solar for All program selected 60 states, nonprofits, municipalities, and tribal consortiums to receive a total of $7 billion in grant funding to set up solar infrastructure in low income areas. In February, those grants were placed in purgatory after President Trump froze Environmental Protection Agency funding. “It feels like everything’s up in the air,” Joseph Eagleman, CEO of the Chippewa Cree Energy Corporation, told Tech Brew.

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

A red pigment used in cosmetics, food, and beverages, usually created by crushing up beetles, can now be made vegan by using sugar. Biotech company Debut announced it can make carmine, a red dye derived from the Cochineal beetle, by creating a microbe that can “turn sugar into carmine.” Previously, the only way to achieve the pigment was by smashing beetles, which caused allergic reactions in some consumers and backlash toward companies that used it.

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

While newly minted state Superfund laws face a multi-state lawsuit, senators declared the law they’re based on “broken.”Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee lamented the state of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the “Superfund” law, during a Wednesday hearing.

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

Data centers are driving up energy demand and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. That means those that are fueled by non-renewable energy will (continue to) have huge carbon footprints. But one energy developer thinks it has a solution. Energy Abundance recently announced it’s building 50,000 acres of data center infrastructure to be powered entirely by renewable energy. The project will be called Data City, Texas, and be stationed outside Laredo, a city near the US-Mexico border.