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Energy

Exclusive: New Report Says Trump Hasn’t Squashed Biden’s Clean Energy Buildout

A just-released MIT paper argues that the energy transition is still largely following the trajectory laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Adaptation

This Heat Wave Is Just a Test

Cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Toronto will see more days like this — but the effects of chronic not-so-extreme heat also build up.

AM Briefing

Radioactive!

On Puerto Rico’s grid, West Virginia’s rare earths hub, and China’s trucking fight

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AM Briefing

The Zeal of the Inverter

On New York’s solar farmland, German nuclear, and Argentinian gas

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Big Ben, Leaning of Pisa, and the Eiffel Tower.

My Extremely Hot European Vacation

I decided to go to Italy in June with my husband, my 9-month-old daughter, and my 69-year-old father. What could go wrong?

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Trump and turbines.

Duke Abdicates

On FERC’s independence, North Dakota, and Ecuador’s bombed regulator

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AM Briefing

Sayonara, Equinor

On Greenland’s rare earths, Baker Hughes’ geothermal bet, China’s green H2

The Other Country Losing Offshore Wind Developers
<p>Illustration by Simon Abranowicz | Getty Images | Unsplash</p>

Current conditions: A sprawling heat dome stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast is raising temperatures for more than 200 million Americans upward of 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week • Three firefighters died battling wildfires along the Colorado-Utah border on Saturday, while winds fanned the flames of the Cottonwood Fire in southwest Utah into the largest blaze in the U.S. right now • Back-to-back tropical storms Mekkhala and Higos battered Japan’s coast over the weekend, leaving at least one dead in a landslide.


THE TOP FIVE

1. The U.S. isn’t the only country losing offshore wind developers

For much of the past decade, Japan looked primed for offshore wind development for the same reasons the American industry first took root in the Northeast: It’s coastal, densely populated, and — with its nuclear power stations either shut down or idled — it’s more reliant on fossil fuels that it doesn’t locally produce than ever before. But building turbines off Japan’s shores has proven tricky as project costs ballooned. On Friday, Norway’s Equinor announced its decision to close its offshore wind division in Japan, after failing to win any leases at repeated auctions over the past eight years. “This decision reflects a reassessment of Equinor’s strategic direction, with a strengthened focus on integrated power markets,” the company said in a statement on its Japanese website.

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Video Killed the Polestar

On Texas transmission trouble, Russian nuclear reprocessing, and ‘guerrilla solar’

A Polestar.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Polestar</p>

Current conditions: France paused production at two nuclear reactors to avoid violating environmental rules against spewing warm water from the plant’s cooling systems during heatwave conditions • A pair of tropical storms named Mekkhala and Higos are barreling toward Japan’s eastern coast • The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes has reached nearly 200.


THE TOP FIVE

1. The U.S. just banned Polestar

The Polestar 4 SUV at the 2025 Chicago Auto Show. Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images

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