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The Quest to Ban the Best Raincoats in the World

Why Patagonia, REI, and just about every other gear retailer are going PFAS-free.

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Up and Up

On data center cancellations, TVA nuclear, and British fusion

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SEC Won’t Let Me See

On wave energy, microplastics, and Emirati sun

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‘Big Deal’ Blackout Warning

On thorium, South Carolina nuclear, and green steel

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Exclusive: Trillium Raises $13 Million for Plant-Based Industrial Chemicals

A ubiquitous byproduct of the oil and gas industry just got a green competitor.

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New Headwinds

On congestion pricing, deep sea mining, and kiwi birds

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Belgian Nuclear Waffling

On Texas solar, Total’s deal, and Rivian’s revving

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Current conditions: The storms soaking the American South with as much as 10 inches of rain are tamping down the region’s wildfire risk • Cavite, the Philippine port city on a peninsula at the southern lip of Manila Bay, is facing its eighth straight day of temperatures nearing 110 degrees Fahrenheit • North Korean state media just issued a warning of a “severe” and “unusual” drought, killing off crops and threatening food shortages in the infamously famine-afflicted hermit kingdom.

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1. Belgium cancels its nuclear phaseout and prepares to nationalize its reactors


A view of the Tihange 2 nuclear reactor, which permanently shut down in 2023. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

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Delete Virginia

On FEMA fubar, South African nuclear, and Chinese electrolyzers

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Current conditions: The Gulf Coast states are bracing for a series of midweek thunderstorms • Temperatures are rocketing up near 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Lahore, Pakistan • San Juan, Puerto Rico, is facing days of severe thunderstorms.

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1. Brookfield abandons data center complex in Virginia amid opposition

Compass Datacenters is quitting a yearslong bid to build a key part of a 2,100-acre data center corridor in northern Virginia amid mounting pushback from neighbors, marking one of the highest profile examples yet of political opposition killing off a major server farm. The company, backed by the private equity giant Brookfield Asset Management, has gunned for Prince William County’s approval to turn more than 800 acres into a portion of the data center buildout. But after spending tens of millions of dollars on the effort, the firm decided that political resistance to providing tax breaks had created what Bloomberg described Wednesday as “too many roadblocks,” prompting a withdrawal.

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