Jack Groppo News Today

Jack Groppo, Zebulon Hart and Lucas Bertucci are co-founders of Verdant Beneficiated Resources, a critical materials recovery company. Their mission: Turn the millions of tons of refuse generated across the nation each year, including electronics waste, into a new Kentucky industry.

The great majority of worn and damaged panels are still dumped in landfills. In this desert city where Arizona, California, Sonora and Baja California meet, North America’s first utility-scale solar panel recycling plant has opened to address what founders of We Recycle Solar call a “tsunami” of solar waste. Plans to address climate change rely on massively scaling up clean, solar electricity.

A recycling industry is taking shape.

The largest solar panel recycling plant in North America has opened in Yuma, Arizona, just as the flow of used and spent solar panels sharply ramps up

Critical minerals will be key to developing sustainable technology as leaders in manufacturing, energy and industrial fields all look for renewable energy sources. The University of Kentucky is acting now to ensure the Commonwealth will be a national and international leader in the development of a booming critical minerals industry.

LEXINGTON — As the global energy and climate crises balloon, one remedy may lie in something as small as a beaker — the place where Lucas Bertucci got his start

Lucas Bertucci, a UK chemical engineering senior from Louisville, Kentucky, was named the first Lee T. Todd, Jr. Student Innovation Scholarship recipient.

The winners of the UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award share one commonality — a genuine love for their students at the University of Kentucky.

The EPA is considering plans for cleaning up legacy coal ash ponds. Tell them to make sure this toxic mess doesnt jeopardize our communities. Amid this patchwork of farm fields fortified with gray matchstick forests sits two centuries worth of waste from the coal industry. Since the United States began burning coal on an industrial scale in the 19th century, upwards of 35 percent of the immolated material has fallen to the bottom of boilers as ash. That ash has then been removed, mixed with wat...