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Climate Tech

How Trump Rocked EV Charging Startups

The end of consumer electric vehicle tax credits isn’t great, but clawing back federal funding has been even worse.

Politics

AM Briefing: Big Oil's Green Contrarian

On abandoning Antarctica, an EV milestone, and this week’s big earnings

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Climate Tech

Climate Tech Companies Are All Data Center Companies Now

Artificial intelligence wants the energy and has the money, and climate tech companies need buyers.

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Climate Tech

Avalanche Energy Gets $10 Million to Test Micro-Fusion Reactors

The grant from Washington State will fund a facility where all kinds of fusion labs can run tests of their own.

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OpenAI’s Stargate Stumbles Out of the Gate

AM Briefing: OpenAI's Stargate Stumbles

On Fervo’s megadeal tease, steel’s coal gamble, and Norway’s CO2 milestone

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New Jersey things.

Why Is Thea Energy, the Fusion Company, in New Jersey?

The birthplace of electricity has more recently been known more for smokestacks and traffic jams than world-changing energy breakthroughs. But that could be about to change.

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Politics

AM Briefing: NRC Expected to ‘Rubber Stamp’ New Reactors

On the NRC, energy in Pennsylvania, and Meta AI

NRC Expected to ‘Rubber Stamp’ New Reactors
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Current conditions: Air quality alerts will remain in place in Chicago through Tuesday evening due to smoke from Canadian wildfiresThere is a high risk of a tropical depression forming in the Gulf this weekThe rain is clearing on the eastern seaboard after 2.64 inches fell in New York’s Central Park on Monday, breaking the record for July 14 set in 1908. 

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1. Trump admin expects the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ‘rubber stamp’ new reactors

The Trump administration is putting pressure on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to “rubber stamp” all new reactors, Politico reports based on conversations with three people at the May meeting where the expectation was relayed. The directive to the NRC’s top staff came from Adam Blake, a representative of the Department of Government Efficiency, who apparently used the term “rubber stamp” specifically to describe the function of the independent agency. NRC’s “secondary assessment” of the safety of new nuclear projects would be a “foregone conclusion” following approval by the Department of Energy or the Pentagon, NRC officials were made to believe, per Politico.

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Climate Tech

The Software That Could Save the Grid

Or at least the team at Emerald AI is going to try.

Technology and power.
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Everyone’s worried about the ravenous energy needs of AI data centers, which the International Energy Agency projects will help catalyze nearly 4% growth in global electricity demand this year and next, hitting the U.S. power sector particularly hard. On Monday, the Department of Energy released a report adding fuel to that fire, warning that blackouts in the U.S. could become 100 times more common by 2030 in large part due to data centers for AI.

The report stirred controversy among clean energy advocates, who cast doubt on that topline number and thus the paper’s justification for a significant fossil fuel buildout. But no matter how the AI revolution is powered, there’s widespread agreement that it’s going to require major infrastructure development of some form or another.

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