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Economy

NAACP, SELC Threaten to Sue Musk’s xAI
Climate

AM Briefing: NAACP, SELC Threaten to Sue Musk’s xAI

On xAI, residential solar, and domestic lithium

Energy

Residential Solar’s No Good, Very Bad Day

Shares in Sunrun, SolarEdge, and Enphase are collapsing on the Senate’s new mega-bill draft.

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Sustainability

How Trump’s ‘Golden Share’ Could Lead to Green Steel

Trump just quasi-nationalized U.S. Steel. That could help climate policy later.

Green
Electricity.

Trump Has an Electricity Price Problem

Look more closely at today’s inflation figures and you’ll see it.

Climate

AM Briefing: EPA Reportedly to Roll Back Power Plant Emission Regulations Today

On power plant emissions, Fervo, and a UK nuclear plant

EPA Will Reportedly Roll Back Power Plant Emission Regulations Today
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Current conditions: A week into Atlantic hurricane season, development in the basin looks “unfavorable through JuneCanadian wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average, at over 3.1 million hectares so farRescue efforts resumed Wednesday in the search for a school bus swept away by flash floods in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

THE TOP FIVE

1. EPA to weaken Biden-era power plant pollution regulations today

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Politics

AM Briefing: An Abrupt End to a Gas Phase-Out Plan

On heat pumps, a coal mine approval, and the UN Ocean Summit.

California Rejects Phase-Out Plan for Gas Heaters
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Current conditions: Tropical Storm Barbara is strengthening off the Pacific coast of Mexico and could become the first hurricane of the season • Smoke from wildfires in Canada’s Manitoba province brought orange skies to the United Kingdom • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is recovering after heavy rains brought flash flooding over the weekend.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Southern California officials reject gas phase-out

Facing the threat of legal challenges from the Trump administration, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, a regional agency that regulates pollution, voted on Friday to reject proposed rules to reduce sales of gas-fired furnaces and water heaters. The rules would have required manufacturers to gradually increase the proportion of zero-emissions appliances like heat pumps that they sell to 90% by 2036, and put surcharges on gas equipment. The standard took two years to draft and bring to a vote but was fiercely attacked by the gas lobby, which labeled it a “gas ban.”

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