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America’s Most Hyped Induction Stove Startups Are Suing Each Other

Copper and Impulse Labs have taken their patent fight to court.

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Crude Logic

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

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‘Let the Oil Flow!’

On Trump’s wind concession, gas tax holidays, and CDP goes B2B

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5 Thoughts About the SpaceX IPO

Welcoming the world’s first clean energy trillionaire.

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Funding Friday: Yet Another SpaceX Alum Raises $54 Million

Plus SAF, another SPAC, and more of the week’s biggest money moves.

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These 8 Executives Told Us What It’s Like Working for Elon Musk

As SPCX hits the Nasdaq, here’s some more from our Musk Mafia survey.

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Blue Wave Past the Breakers

On SpaceX’s IPO, hydro deals, and UnionDAC

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Current conditions: The powerful storm system rolling through the Midwest and the Plains on Thursday caused more than 350 incidents of severe weather in just two states, Iowa and Michigan • New York City is getting its own thunderstorm today, which will break the heat going into the weekend • Temperatures in Mecca are already 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and will climb higher on Saturday.


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1. Energy Department’s terminations of ‘blue state’ grants ruled unconstitutional

The Department of Energy has reversed its terminations of 11 grants to clean energy projects in states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. The move comes months after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the cancellations violated the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, citing the continuation of comparable grants to states that voted for President Donald Trump in the election. Under the terms of an agreement between the litigants and the federal government filed on Thursday, the Energy Department will vacate the terminations. Among the primary reasons for the decision, according to a blog post from a network for former Energy Department officials, is that the agency itself admitted that part of its justification for canceling the projects was that they were listed in documents as taking place in “blue states.” But it wasn’t just Democratic-leaning states that were targeted in the initial cuts last fall. As Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo wrote, red state projects were on the chopping block, too.

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How SpaceX and Tesla Gave Rise to a New Generation of Climate Tech Startups

SpaceX and Tesla have produced executives and founders across the clean energy world. Here’s what they had to say about working for their former boss.

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While SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is often lauded for turning technology like reusable rockets and American-made electric vehicles into thriving businesses in a way long thought impossible, or at least improbable, he has also more quietly done something about as unlikely: get investors excited about capital-intensive hard tech startups.

For most of the time Musk was sleeping on the floor of Tesla’s factory to oversee Model 3 assembly and his rockets were riding across the country on the back of flatbed trucks, the venture capitalists that fund the next generation of technology companies were largely enamored with software businesses, which required little capital to start up and could scale quickly with accelerating profitability.

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