A major corporate play landed when American Airlines agreed to buy 100 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel over five years in a Google-backed deal — a big liquidity boost for SAF scaling. [P]At the same time GM is pivoting beyond cars into grid-scale storage with sodium‑ion batteries and vehicle‑to‑grid services, signaling automakers want to be energy companies too. Those industry moves sit alongside sharper tensions — from Delta retiring its Boeing 777s over a 21% fuel‑burn gap to farmers suing over dairy checkoff cash for ESG work and the UN’s new World Ocean Assessment reminding everyone the planet still has veto power.