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Politics

The IRA Has a Math Problem

As Republicans’ budget priorities stack up, the numbers are starting to turn against America’s landmark climate law.

Politics

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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Politics

Here Are the Grants EPA Canceled

The agency provided a list to the Sierra Club, which in turn provided the list to Heatmap.

Energy

The New Campaign to Save Renewables: Lower Electricity Bills

Defenders of the Inflation Reduction Act have hit on what they hope will be a persuasive argument for why it should stay.

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EPA Workers Wrote an Anonymous Letter to America

AM Briefing: A Letter from EPA Staff

On environmental justice grants, melting glaciers, and Amazon’s carbon credits

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EV charging.

These States Are Still Pushing Public EV Charging Programs

If you live in Illinois or Massachusetts, you may yet get your robust electric vehicle infrastructure.

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Climate

AM Briefing: An 800,000-Year High

On the WMO’s latest report, EPA climate grants, and BYD

Atmosperhic CO2 Is at an 800,000-Year High
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Current conditions: More than 2 million people are under blizzard warnings across the Midwest • A landslide is suspected of rupturing an oil pipeline in northwest Ecuador, triggering an environmental emergency • Beaches are closed in South Australia due to a dangerous microalgal bloom, which officials believe could be caused by the combination of unusual hot and dry weather, low wind, and low tides.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Judge temporarily blocks EPA’s efforts to claw back climate grants

A U.S. district judge issued a temporary restraining order yesterday blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from taking back billions of dollars in climate grants issued to a handful of nonprofits under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Under the order, Citibank, where the funds are held, cannot transfer the money out of the nonprofits’ accounts because doing so would cause them “imminent harm.” The nonprofits in question – Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital, and Power Forward Communities – received about $14 billion of more than $20 billion awarded for clean energy and climate solutions. The Trump administration’s EPA, led by Lee Zeldin, has frozen and attempted to claw back the funds, accusing the Biden administration of approving them hastily and without oversight, and accusing the nonprofits of “fraud, waste, and abuse.” Several of the grantees have sued the EPA and Citibank. In her decision, Judge Tanya Chutkan of Washington, D.C., said “there are serious due process concerns” about the EPA’s actions.

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Podcast

How to Crash America’s Manufacturing Renaissance

Rob quizzes Jesse on the latest research from the REPEAT Project.

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Republicans in Washington are pushing for at least two big changes to the country’s car-related policies. In Congress, some lawmakers want to repeal the $7,500 tax credit that helps consumers buy or lease a new electric vehicle — as well as a matching tax credit that lets companies buy heavy-duty zero-carbon trucks. And at the Environmental Protection Agency, officials are trying to roll back Biden-era rules encouraging dealerships to sell more EVs through 2032.

What will that mean for the climate — and for the slate of new EV and battery factories popping up around the country? On this week’s episode of Shift Key, Rob and Jesse talk about new research from Jesse’s lab, the REPEAT Project, about what will happen if Congress and the Trump administration get their way. What will happen to America’s factory boom? How soon would the effects be felt? And would tariffs stem the bleeding at all? Shift Key is hosted by Jesse Jenkins, a professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University, and Robinson Meyer, Heatmap’s executive editor.

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