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AM Briefing: House Cues Up Thursday Passage of GOP Megabill

On a late-night House vote, Tesla’s slump, and carbon credits

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Electric Vehicles

AM Briefing: The Megabill Goes to the House

On the budget debate, MethaneSAT’s untimely demise, and Nvidia

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Politics

AM Briefing: Let the Vote-a-Rama Begin

On taxing renewables, climate finance, and Europe’s heat wave

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The U.S. and China Have Reached a Trade Deal

AM Briefing: China Relents on Rare Earths

On resuming rare earth shipments, hurricane tracking, and EV tax credits

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Global Energy Use Smashes Records Across the Board

AM Briefing: An Energy Smorgasbord

On a new report from the Energy Institute, high-stakes legislating, and accelerating nuclear development

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Climate

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

On xAI, residential solar, and domestic lithium

NAACP, SELC Threaten to Sue Musk’s xAI
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1. NAACP, SELC threaten to sue Elon Musk’s AI company over Memphis pollution

The NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over alleged Clean Air Act violations at its Memphis facility. Per the lawsuit, xAI failed to obtain the required permits for the use of the 26 gas turbines that power its supercomputer, and in doing so, the company also avoided equipping the turbines with technology that would have reduced emissions. “xAI’s turbines are collectively one of the largest, or potentially the largest, industrial source of nitrogen oxides in Shelby County,” the lawsuit claims.

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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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The residential solar rescue never happened. Shares in several residential solar companies plummeted Tuesday as the market reacted to the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation language, which maintains the House bill’s restriction on investment tax credits for residential solar installers and its scrapping of the tax credit for homeowners who buy their own systems.

The Solar Energy Industries Association, a solar trade group, criticized the Senate text, saying that it had only “modest improvements on several provisions” and would “pull the plug on homegrown solar energy and decimate the American manufacturing renaissance.”

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