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Lucid Motors Announces Second Round of Layoffs This Year
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Lucid Shrinking


On simplified oil and gas leases, lawsuits over plastic and coal, and a new climate research database

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How a Documentary About Climate Migration Found a Happy Ending

Director Josh Fox on his latest film, The Welcome Table, plus Shakespearean comedy and the New York Knicks.

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‘Incidents and Miscommunication’

On Michael Bloomberg’s big climate gift, SMRs in Ohio, and the consequences of a “Super El Niño”

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Californians: Brace Yourselves for a Hurricane This Summer

An active Pacific cyclone season plus El Niño-warmed waters could produce a first-of-its-kind West Coast storm.

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Strait Shooting

On Estonian nuclear, solar’s land use, and Kristi Noem’s mining gig

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Anthropic Is Buying Carbon Removal — But Not Clean Power

That may be not be the case for long, though, as the AI company poaches energy talent from Google, Meta, the DOE, and others.

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The Road to Damascus

On carbon removal funding, Chinese nuclear, and Hawaiian solar

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Current conditions: The powerful earthquake that killed at least 61 people in the Philippines last week raised the seabed by as much as 7 feet • Raja Ampat, the archipelago off Indonesia’s Southwest Papua province, is enduring days of intense thunderstorms • The Gulf Coast of Texas is bracing for what could become a tropical cyclone set to dump heavy rain across the region.


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1. ConocoPhillips becomes the first U.S. oil company to reenter Syria

A Syrian oil field. Kasim Yusuf/Anadolu via Getty Images

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Crude Logic

On permitting reform, Japanese rare earths, and Rolls-Royce nuclear

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Current conditions: Portland, Oregon, just broke a 60-year heat record yesterday, with temperatures topping 95 degrees Fahrenheit • The South Fork Fire in Nebraska's Panhandle has now scorched nearly 40,000 acres • Winds of up to 45 miles per hour are whipping half of Vanuatu’s six provinces.


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1. Oil prices plunge after Trump unveils ceasefire with Iran

The price of crude fell to its lowest level in three months Monday after President Donald Trump announced the bones of a ceasefire agreement to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In response to Sunday evening’s news of a memorandum of understanding, which New York Times reporter David Sanger called “more like a table of contents” on yesterday’s episode of “The Daily,” oil prices dropped by nearly 5% on the main European benchmark. Murban crude, the index used for oil coming out of the United Arab Emirates’ biggest port, plunged by 7%.

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