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The Trump Fact Check

Not all of it is wrong!

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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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Republicans Will Regret Killing Permitting Reform

They might not be worried now, but Democrats made the same mistake earlier this year.

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Global Climate Politics Had a Rough 2024

In 2025, it’s time for stern resolve and bold maneuvers.

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A sun made of COVID.

How Covid Shaped Climate Policy

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.

Jennifer Granholm.

An Exit Interview With Energy Secretary Granholm

Rob sits down in New York with the outgoing head of America’s energy apparatus.

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AM Briefing: The LNG Report Looms

On a long-awaited study, PG&E’s loan, and Germany’s snap elections

What to Expect From the Looming LNG Report
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Current conditions: A 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused major damage on the Pacific island of Vanuatu • Oil from damaged tankers is washing up on Russian beaches after a storm in the Black Sea • Hot, dry, and windy weather returns to parched Southern California.

THE TOP FIVE

1. What to expect from the looming LNG report

The Department of Energy’s study on liquefied natural gas exports could drop as soon as today, but we might already know what’s in it thanks to an accompanying letter written by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and obtained by The New York Times. The key takeaways:

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How Elon Musk Broke Bad on Climate

Why he did is anybody’s guess. But we’re all about to suffer the consequences.

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Donald Trump hasn’t taken office yet, but the quarter of a billion dollars Elon Musk invested in Trump’s victory is already paying off in ways large and small. On Friday, Reuters reported that the Trump transition team is looking to scrap a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash-reporting requirement, “a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.” Tesla finds this requirement irksome, and lo, it may soon disappear.

In the scope of Musk’s emerging sway over the Trump administration and the course of federal policy in the coming years, it’s a relatively minor story of potentially corrupt influence and the subversion of the public interest. But an even more disturbing picture of Musk’s full priority set is coming into focus.

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