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Economy

The Jobs Report Shows AI Is the Only Game in Town

That’s okay for clean energy firms, terrible for manufacturers, and a big risk for everyone.

Climate

AM Briefing: Interior’s Wind Witch Hunt

On FERC’s ‘disastrous misstep,’ the World Court’s climate ruling, and 127 SMRs

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The Fed Has No Relief for Renewables Developers (or Trump)

The U.S. central bank left its interest rate target unchanged for the fifth time in a row.

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Trump Knocks Out Basis for U.S. Federal Climate Policy

AM Briefing: Trump Pulls the Climate Policy Ripcord

On NRC drama, Big Tech’s thirst, and Uplight’s for-sale sign

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Why We’re Worried About Electricity Prices

Rob and Jesse take stock of all the trends threatening to push up power bills.

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Economy

The U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Boom Is Sputtering

More than $30 billion of clean energy investments are now on ice since Trump took office, according to new data from Wellesley College’s Big Green Machine.

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America’s EV factory building boom is beginning to falter.

Since President Donald Trump took office, at least 34 factories or mineral refineries — totaling more than $30 billion in investment — have been paused, delayed, or canceled, according to a new report from researchers at Wellesley College who track the country’s clean energy manufacturing base.

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Climate

AM Briefing: Congress Saves Energy Star

On betrayed regulatory promises, copper ‘anxiety,’ and Mercedes’ stalled EV plans

Congress Balks at Trump’s Bid to Shoot Down Energy Star
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THE TOP FIVE

1. Congress pushes back on Trump’s plan to kill Energy Star

In May, the Trump administration signaled its plans to gut Energy Star, the energy efficiency certification program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency. Energy Star is extremely popular — its brand is recognized by nearly 90% of Americans — and at a cost to the federal government of just $32 million per year, saves American households upward of $40 billion in energy costs per year as of 2024, for a total of more than $500 billion saved since its launch in 1992, by the EPA’s own estimate. Not only that, as one of Energy Star’s architects told Heatmap’s Jeva Lange back in May, more energy efficient appliances and buildings help reduce strain on the grid. “Think about the growing demands of data center computing and AI models,” RE Tech Advisors’ Deb Cloutier told Jeva. “We need to bring more energy onto the grid and make more space for it.”

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