Energy & Environment
Three Mile Island can restart without subsidies. The federal government is giving it $1 billion anyway.
The site of America's most notorious nuclear energy incident will soon provide electricity to power Big Tech's AI ambitions. On Tuesday, the Energy Department announced that it will loan the Crane Clean Energy…
30 years of U.N. COP climate meetings haven’t slowed carbon emissions
United Nations' climate change conferences are exercises in futility. That is becoming ever clearer as the 30th conference of the parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
Trump bets $80 billion on government-backed energy
Since President Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office, the federal government has trademarked its own version of Republican socialism by nationalizing steel production and taking equity stakes in chip manufacturers…
Bill Gates admits that climate change ‘will not be the end of civilization’
Next month, government officials, policymakers, and activists will flock to Belém, Brazil, for the United Nations' annual climate change summit. In the past, these conferences have focused on wealth distribution schemes…
The Clean Air Act is making our air dirtier
The sky turns a rusty orange. The sun dims behind a thick veil of smoke. For millions of Americans, even ones far from wildfire-prone lands, this eerie scene is no longer rare. Extreme wildfires have doubled in frequency and…
Trump administration cancels $700 Million in Biden-era energy contracts for red states
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that it would slash $7.5 billion worth of Joe Biden–era green energy projects in blue states. The cancellation of federal energy spending has now extended to Republican…
Federal radiation rules are stalling nuclear power
Unreasonably strict radiation exposure limits are holding back nuclear power development, according to a July report from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers. The report challenges the current model for radiation…
Starting today, electric vehicle buyers no longer get a federal tax credit
Yesterday was the last day to get a tax credit for buying an electric vehicle (E.V.), and motorists were apparently buying them like crazy before the credit expired. The expiration is bad news if you were about to get rid of…
Trump’s $625 million coal plan may raise utility bills of Americans
The artificial intelligence boom has sent electricity prices reeling, with a recent Bloomberg analysis finding that wholesale energy prices in areas near data hubs have jumped 267 percent since 2020. President Donald Trump,…
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