The 300-mile Torcal arrives in September, but considering what’s come before with Ferrari, Porsche, and Mercedes, has the company timed its EV entry right?

Bentley has a name for its first fully electric car: Torcal. The British marque confirmed this today, alongside a teaser image of the EV's rear, promising a full reveal on September 23. Far more important than the name, however, is that this is Bentley's first ever full electric car. Specs are thin on the ground until the official reveal, but Bentley is prepared to let slip that this 5-meter-long SUV will have a range of more than 300 miles.

The word Torcal was already on Bentley watchers’ radar. Earlier this year, trademark filings showed Bentley had registered both “Torcal” and “Barnato” in Europe and the UK, filed against motor vehicles including electric cars, charging cables, and charging stations. Barnato, a nod to 1920s Bentley obsessive and racing driver Woolf Barnato, was tipped as the front-runner. Bentley has gone the other way.

The summer heat is now in full swing, bringing with it scorching temperatures for some areas of Southern California over the next few days.

Starting Tuesday, a heat advisory kicks in for interior mountains and valleys in L.A. County, with temperatures in the mid 80s to 90s. Meanwhile, closer to the coast, temperatures will hover in mid 70s.

Valley communities will see highs reach 90 to 100 degree weather. Coachella Valley could see highs up to 115 degrees.

Come Wednesday, temperatures will continue to increase, so make sure to stay hydrated and check in on loved ones.

President Trump has made substantial efforts to curb renewable energy development. The Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado managed to bring a big solar project online anyway.

"How we confront the climate crisis will determine a lot about the next 250 years of American history, including if we make it that long," one climate advocate said. "The revolution we need today is the clean energy revolution."

Looking at the ingredient labels on foods lining supermarket shelves, it's common to see names such as “potassium sorbate,” “citric acid,” and “L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C).” These substances are food additives used to prevent spoilage and preserve quality, and they are widely incorporated into industrially produced processed foods.

According to Open Food Facts, the world's largest open food database, more than 20 percent of the processed foods and beverages in its database contain at least one preservative.

A large-scale study demonstrates that preservatives widely used in everyday processed foods may exacerbate common health risks.

Gov. Ron DeSantis characterized the clean energy goals the law bans as “radical climate policies,” although experts say the law will not necessarily upend the plans.

A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes.

Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is located. But the new law will not necessarily upend these policies, said Bradley Marshall, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an advocacy group.

BOURNE, MA — Gov. Maura Healey’s office announced Wednesday that the Cape Cod Bridges replacement project has reached a major milestone after receiving federal approval of its Final Environmental Impact Statement and a Record of Decision from the Federal Highway Administration.

The approval completes the federal environmental review process required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), allowing the project to move into its next phases of permitting and design while bringing Massachusetts closer to securing more than $1 billion in federal funding for construction.

Three electric school buses will kick-start the state’s groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid pilot program once school's out, with more EVs to be added in the coming months.

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.

Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab that has two seats, but no steering wheel or pedals, in Austin, Texas. For now, the testing is being done with a safety monitor in the right passenger seat, according to a video posted on X, the social media platform owned by the electric car maker’s CEO Elon Musk.

This test is happening nearly two years after Tesla revealed the design of the Cybercab, which is meant to be a fully autonomous robotaxi that can be hailed through Tesla’s app. Roughly a year ago, Tesla began testing a Tesla Robotaxi service in Austin with Model Y SUVs that have, at times, used safety monitors.

Europe’s mortuaries are overflowing, America’s watchdogs are being leashed, public lands are being opened to more drilling, and the control room is still pretending this is a messaging problem.

There are days when the metaphor arrives wearing a little hat, waving politely from the edge of the news, asking if it may please be included somewhere between the congressional dysfunction and the latest judicial renovation of American democracy.

Then there are days when the metaphor is a mortuary in Paris with no room left.

Europe is in the grip of record heat, the kind that makes the old maps look quaint and the old warnings sound less like warnings than apologies issued too late. In France, funeral homes have reportedly been overwhelmed by the number of dead, especially older people, as temperatures pushed past 104 degrees and the heat settled into cities like a verdict. One mortuary owner told reporters, “We’re facing a really catastrophic situation,” which is the kind of sentence that should stop a government in its tracks, make every serious person in a serious office look up from the latest polling memo, and begin moving with the urgency of people who understand that reality doesn’t negotiate.

The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale.

Three startups are providing the fireworks for the Department of Energy's Fourth of July celebrations by meeting a major nuclear milestone. They've turned on new reactors as part of a pilot program aimed at kick-starting what Energy Secretary Chris Wright calls “America’s nuclear renaissance” to develop and deploy the next generation of atomic energy.

Other companies in the pilot program have signaled that they may reach criticality—a term used to describe a nuclear reactor sustaining a chain reaction, a key step in providing power—shortly after July 4, following a deadline set by President Donald Trump in an executive order last year. But experts say that while the pilot is good PR for the industry, there’s still a long way to go before new reactor designs become commercial realities.

The Trump administration has approved three new pesticides that may be considered “forever chemicals” under an international definition, though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is disputin…

​Blazes mobilized hundreds of firefighters over the weekend and scorched a total of 42,000 acres in Spain, France, and Portugal alone—an area two times the size of Manhattan.

Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.

Landowners can now turn certain farms and timberland into business parks, suburbs despite local objections.

An industry-backed state law that takes effect July 1 will make it easier for developers to turn farmland into suburban subdivisions over the objections of local governments and communities.

The National Park System, which will be flooded with visitors this summer, has a bipartisan pedigree. Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service law that established our system, but Teddy Roosevelt’s setting aside millions of acres of public lands gave it substance. Ulysses Grant signed the law creating the first national park, Yellowstone. There have been tensions between the parties over parks.

James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of the Interior, was a zealous religious sagebrush rebellion conservative who tried to ban the Beach Boys from performing on the National Mall on July 4 because he thought they’d bring in a bad crowd. (Ron and Nancy loved the California band, and Watt became a goner.) No wonder Ken Burns named his documentary series on our national parks “America’s Best Idea.”

It took the klepto-genius of Donald Trump to see the National Park Service as a pile of cash, as he continues his campaign to redo Washington in fetid neo-autocratic style.

A comprehensive report on Trump’s raiding of the National Park Service's funds to pay for his gaudy, gold-leaf D.C. makeover.

Michael Scherer unveils part of the scam in The Atlantic.

Autonomous-driving startup Wayve is riding a tide of investor interest.

The London-based company has pulled in $2.8 billion from a roster of investors and strategic partners that includes big names across the technology and automotive sectors, from Nvidia to Mercedes-Benz and Nissan. In June, Wayve said it will deploy its system in robotaxis from Jeep maker Stellantis, to go on Uber’s ride-hailing network.

“We can take power from a plasma,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch. The milestone shows “what’s possible,” he added.

For fusion startups, the hard part is over: Thanks to a groundbreaking experiment in 2022, we know that controlled nuclear fusion reactions can generate more power than they consume. But now companies need to prove their reactors can make enough electricity to be profitable.

One option is to simply turn up the temperature, generating more heat to produce more steam to spin a bigger turbine. Another is to harvest electricity directly from the fusion reactions themselves, an approach that promises to be more efficient.