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Politics

New GOP Budget Bill Guts Decades-Old Fuel Economy Rules for Cars and Trucks

The Senate’s reconciliation bill essentially repeals the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, abolishing fines for automakers that sell too many gas guzzlers.

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The Darkening Consensus of Renewable Energy Insiders

What I’m hearing from developers and CEOs about the renewable energy industry after the Inflation Reduction Act

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Energy

The Renewables Industry’s New Message: It’s the Demand, Stupid

At a conference in New York, solar and wind developers warn of spiking electricity prices if IRA tax credits are cut.

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Climate

AM Briefing: Musk, Trump Split Over Deficit, Cuts to Subsidies

On Musk vs. Trump, tech emissions, and V2G charging

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GOP Senators Call for Preserving IRA Credits

AM Briefing: GOP Senators Call for Preserving IRA Credits

On Senate committees, a public lands selloff, and energy investment

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It Took a Decade, But Big Tech Finally Loves Nuclear

Meta’s deal with Constellation is a full circle moment for an Illinois nuclear plant.

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White House Requests Slashes to Climate Programs in Rescission Package
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Current conditions: Thunderstorms today will span 1,000 miles from Detroit to DallasNOAA’s Hurricane Hunters aircrews will begin their 2025 season by gathering weather data from a disturbance off the Southeast coast of the U.S.Romanian officials are rerouting a stream to prevent the further inundation and collapse of one of Europe’s largest salt reserves following historic floods.

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1. White House takes aim at climate programs in rescission package

The White House on Tuesday formally asked Congress to rescind $9.4 billion in federal funds to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts. The 24-page proposal includes clawing back $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, as well as $8.3 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the African Development Foundation. Congress has 45 days to pass the measure.

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The Supreme Court’s Double-Edged Change to Permitting Law

Rob and Jesse pick apart Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s latest opinion with University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley.

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Did the Supreme Court just make it easier to build things in this country — or did it give a once-in-a-lifetime gift to the fossil fuel industry? Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 against environmentalists who sought to use a key permitting law, the National Environmental Policy Act, to slow down a railroad in a remote but oil-rich part of Utah. Even the court’s liberals ruled against the green groups.

But the court’s conservative majority issued a much stronger and more expansive ruling, urging lower courts to stop interpreting the law as they have for years. That decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, may signal a new era for what has been called the “Magna Carta” of environmental law.

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