Houston – October 12, 2026 -- Flotek Industries (NYSE: FTK) will release its third quarter 2026 financial and operating results after market close on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, giving investors a 22-day lead from today's schedule announcement.

Phoenix – October 12, 2026 -- Republic Services has opened an expanded compost facility at Forward Landfill in San Joaquin County, Calif., with capacity to recycle up to 147,000 tons of food scraps and yard waste per year.

The upgraded site adds processing space and infrastructure, and uses technology to speed up composting and keep pace with higher customer demand. It serves thousands of homes and businesses across Northern California. Finished compost is returned to farmers and residents.

Boulder – October 12, 2026 -- The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Board of Directors has named six recipients of its inaugural host-city recognition awards, honoring clean energy leadership in Austin and Travis County, Texas.

Cleveland – October 12, 2026 -- Commercial facilities that enroll in demand response programs agree in advance to cut power use on request, often for financial compensation or lower standby costs, but those that miss committed reductions can see lower payments, according to a HelloNation article featuring Sandy Carpenter of Triple S Energy Management LLC.

Cockeysville, Md. – October 12, 2026 -- GEARWRENCH is entering the Power & Utility hand tool category with more than 50 tools across more than five product categories, built for power transmission and distribution professionals.

The lineup was developed with working linemen and validated through months of field testing. Hundreds of linemen took part in product testing and field evaluation, according to the company. The tools target underground, ground-level and overhead work.

Council Bluffs – October 12, 2026 -- Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC (SIRE), a farmer-owned ethanol producer, has acquired GreenAmerica Biofuels Ord LLC, lifting its combined capacity to approximately 230 million gallons of ethanol per year across two plants in Iowa and Nebraska.

New York – October 12, 2026 -- Egan-Jones Ratings says inexpensive missiles and drones have given Shiite groups leverage over the chokepoints that carry Middle East petroleum exports, with consequences for global trade and credit markets.

Karlskoga – October 12, 2026 -- Cell Impact will deliver most of a SEK 5.3 million flow plate order within two quarters, after a US-based fuel cell and electrolyser OEM asked for a faster delivery rate. Final delivery is expected in April 2027.

Customer brings forward a two-year delivery schedule

Cell Impact announced the follow-up order in June. Deliveries were then scheduled over two years, starting in the third quarter of 2026.

New York – October 12, 2026 -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has mapped more than 500 published hydrogen standards and concluded that deployment is often held back not by missing standards but by difficulty in implementing and applying them. The finding comes from a new report, "Advancing Hydrogen Standards and Codes," and a companion document, the Hydrogen Standards Landscape.

Cary, N.C. – October 12, 2026 -- Subeca has raised approximately $3M in a Series A-2 round to expand its smart water metering hardware and software for utilities, adding to the $6M Series A it closed in 2024.

Burnt Island Ventures, described in the release as the most active venture investor in the global water industry, led the round. Cycle H2O, a water technology venture fund, joined as a new investor. SUEZ, which led the 2024 Series A, also participated, along with several additional investors.