Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.

Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.

From January 2026 Aldi's Polish store staff earn PLN 5,700 to 6,450 gross a month and store managers up to PLN 9,350, with every employee also getting PLN 400 a month on a prepaid card for shopping at Aldi.

Tesla delivered 418,227 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2025, down 16%, bringing full-year deliveries to 1,636,129, an 8.6% fall and its second annual decline; storage deployments reached a record 14.2 GWh.

A new theatrical anime film of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina is announced, bringing Jougi Shiraishi's traveling witch Elaina back to the screen for the first time since C2C's 2020 TV series.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

Vuori filed a trademark suit in Miami federal court against the anonymous owners of 24 look-alike web shops such as vuoriclothing-outlets.shop and vuoriactivewear.com, seeking to freeze and seize them.