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Trump Tees Up Another Attack on Wind
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AM Briefing: Yet Another Wind Attack

On tax credit deadlines, America’s nuclear export hopes, and data center flexibility

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AM Briefing: New Jersey’s Atomic Promise

On copper chaos, a solar surge, and transformer hopes

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Climate

AM Briefing: Trump’s Offshore Oil Bonanza

On COP30 jitters, a coal mega-merger gone bust, and NYC airport workers get heated

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Climate

AM Briefing: Trump Tightens Tax Credit Rules

On TVA’s new nuclear deal, plastics talks’ ‘abject failure’, and powerless Puerto Rico

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Biden signing the IRA into law and solar panels.

Now We Decide the Future of U.S. Climate Policy

On the third anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, Heatmap contributor Advait Arun mourns what’s been lost — but more importantly, charts a path toward what comes next.

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Trump’s Fossil Fuel Plant Order Will Cost Billions

AM Briefing: Trump’s $3 Billion Utility Bill

On the worsening transformer shortage, China’s patent boom, and New York’s nuclear embrace

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Climate

AM Briefing: Trump’s Top Energy Democrat

On a billion-dollar mineral push, the north’s grim milestones, and EV charging’s comeback

Trump Names a Democrat as FERC Chief
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Current conditions: The Southeastern U.S. is facing flash floods through the end of Thursday • Temperatures in Fez, Morocco, are forecast to hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit • Wildfires continue to rage across southern Europe, sending what Spain’s environment minister called a “clear warning” of the effects of climate change.

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1. Trump names Democrat as new FERC chief

President Donald Trump on Wednesday named David Rosner, a centrist Democrat, as the new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Since joining the commission in June 2024, Rosner focused the panel on the nation’s growing electricity demand from data centers and pushed for greater automation of the engineering process to connect power plants to the continent’s various grid systems. “Getting grid interconnection moving faster is essential to ensuring reliability,” Rosner told E&E News in March. “We’re starting to learn about these new tools and platforms that just make this work faster, smarter, saves us time, solves the reliability and affordability problems that are facing the country.”

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Electric Vehicles

AM Briefing: The Energy Department’s Advanced Nuclear Dream

On Sierra Club drama, OBBB’s price hike, and deep-sea mining blowback

Energy Department Backs 11 Advanced Nuclear Projects
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Current conditions: Tropical Erin is expected to gain strength and make landfall in the Caribbean as the first major hurricane of the season, lashing islands with winds of up to 80 miles per hour and 7 inches of rain • More than 152 fires have broken out across Greece in the past 24 hours alone as Europe battles a heatwave • Typhoon Podul is expected to make landfall over southeastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning, lashing the island with winds of up to 96 miles per hour.

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1. Energy Department selects 11 nuclear projects for pilot program

The Department of Energy selected 11 nuclear projects from 10 reactor startups on Tuesday for a pilot program “with the goal to construct, operate, and achieve criticality of at least three test reactors” by next July 4. The Trump administration then plans to fast-track the successful technologies for commercial licensing. The effort is part of the United States’ attempt at catching up with China, which last year connected its first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor to the grid. The technologies in the program vary among the reactors selected for the program, with some reactors based on Generation IV designs using coolants other than water and others pitching smaller but otherwise traditional light water reactors. None of the selected models will produce more than 300 megawatts of power. The U.S. hopes these smaller machines can be mass produced to bring down the cost of nuclear construction and deploy atomic energy in more applications, including on remote military bases, and even, as NASA announced last week, the moon.

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