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Climate

Ford’s EV ‘Model T’ Moment
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AM Briefing: Ford’s EV ‘Model T’ Moment

On Interior’s birdwatching, China’s lithium slowdown, and recycling aluminum

Climate

AM Briefing: America’s Sticky Plastic Talks

On Trump’s IEA attack, Orsted’s woes, and firefly nostalgia

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AM Briefing: Trump’s Great Climate Revision

On GM eating the tariffs, California’s utility bills, and open-sourcing climate models

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Climate

AM Briefing: Another Nuclear Resurrection

On Lava Ridge’s cancellation, Northeast pipelines, and fresh Puerto Rico chaos

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U.S. Electricity Demand Surges to Back-to-Back Records

AM Briefing: U.S. Power’s Record Surge

On the Senate’s climate whip, green cement deals, and a U.S. uranium revival.

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Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority Forever

Rob and Jesse talk through the proposed overturning of the EPA’s “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases with Harvard Law School’s Jody Freeman.

Politics

AM Briefing: The Republican Renewables Rebellion

On residential solar dims, New Jersey makes history, and Brazil’s challenge

Republicans Rebel Against Trump’s Renewables Crusade
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Current conditions: Tropical Storm Dexter has formed in the Atlantic, sending rough surf and rip currents to beaches along the U.S. East Coast • Heavy rainfall threatens flooding in southern Taiwan and northern Vietnam • Storm Floris is battering Scotland with winds of up to 80 miles per hour.


THE TOP FIVE

1. Two Republican senators push back on Trump’s renewables assault

Two top GOP senators are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at severely restricting access to tax credits for renewables before a phaseout begins next year. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Utah Senator John Curtis placed holds on three Trump nominees to the Treasury Department, the agency in charge of writing the rules and guidance for the tax provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Trump’s Big EPA Reversal Could Have a Strange Twist for California

Without the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, the state could have a case for re-imposing its own greenhouse limits on auto emissions.

California traffic.
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Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has moved to abdicate the federal government’s responsibility to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles. At this point it’s only a proposal, and legal challenges to the shift could take years to resolve even after the change gets finalized.

But if the law eventually closes the door on national standards, it might open a new one for states.

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