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Trump Axes Logging Protections for 44 Million Acres of National Forest
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AM Briefing: Trump Brings In the Lumberjacks

On Alaska’s permitting overhaul, HALEU winners, and Heatmap’s Climate 101

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The Most At-Risk Projects of the Energy Transition

These are the 10 most important clean energy transition projects struggling to get off the ground

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AM Briefing: FEMA’s Dissent Crackdown

On a second nuclear revival, a new fusion startup, and Africa’s solar boom

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AM Briefing: The Renewable Pariah

On Trump’s latest wind target, new critical minerals, and methane maps

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Trump Yanks Revolution Wind Permits

AM Briefing: Revolution Put Down

On $20 billion in lost projects, Alligator Alcatraz’s closure, and Amazon state’s rally

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AM Briefing: New Jersey’s Atomic Promise

On copper chaos, a solar surge, and transformer hopes

New Jersey Democrat for Governor Pledges to Go Nuclear
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Current conditions: Hurricane Erin is generating waves up to 6 feet high in North Carolina as the storm brings dangerous riptides up the East Coast • Heavy rainfall is causing deadly landslides and flooding in Senegal • Isesaki, northwest of Tokyo, is sweltering in temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit as a heat wave that already broke records this month persists.

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1. New Jersey’s Democratic governor candidate stumps for new nuclear

Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee for governor in New Jersey, pledged Wednesday to build a new nuclear plant near the Delaware border in Salem County. At a press conference, the sitting U.S. Representative vowed to “massively expand cheaper, cleaner power generation” and build “an energy arsenal in our state.” That could mean building one or more Westinghouse AP1000s, the gigawatt-sized old-fashioned reactor for which the local utility giant, PSEG, already has early site permits from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “I’m going to immediately develop a plan for a new nuclear power site in Salem County,” Sherrill said at a rain-soaked press conference in Kenilworth, a suburb on the north end of the state outside New York City. “It demands urgency.”

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AM Briefing: Trump’s Offshore Oil Bonanza

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

Trump Schedules an Offshore Oil Bonanza After Killing Wind
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Current conditions: Hurricane Erin is lashing Virginia Beach with winds up to 80 miles per hour, the Mid-Atlantic with light rain, and New York City with deadly riptides • Europe’s wildfires have now burned more land than any blazes in two decades • Catastrophic floods have killed more than 300 in Pakistan and at least 50 in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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1. Trump schedules auctions of dozens of offshore oil and gas leases

Offshore oil rigs in California. Mario Tama/Getty Images

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