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Your Home Could Help Solve AI’s Growing Power Demand

Tesla, Sunrun and Renew Home plan to tap solar panels, batteries, thermostats and other devices installed in millions of homes to meet the energy demands of artificial intelligence.

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Installation of a Sunrun solar panel on a roof in California. Sunrun is working with Tesla and Renew Home to use home energy devices to help data centers get online faster.
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Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate.gov Web Site

The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The new site is an effort to preserve NOAA work previously available at climate.gov.
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Energy Dept. Promises $17.5 Billion in Loans for Nuclear Power

The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, if any, companies might participate.

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The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is the only one with AP1000 reactors in the U.S. They generate enough electricity to power 1 million homes, but they took 15 years to build and cost $35 billion, double the initial estimates.
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Europe Created Heat-Wave Protections. Now Comes the ‘Crash Test.’

Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.

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A visitor to the Palace of Versailles in France on Monday, where temperatures exceeded 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Justice Department Makes It Easier to Bypass Pollution Controls on Pickups

It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.

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Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands

A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.

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One proposal would lower the cost of the bonds that fossil fuel companies must pay the Interior Department before they start drilling or mining on public lands.
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U.S. Oil Is Skipping the Chance to Grab Market Share From the Gulf

U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.

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Smaller U.S. oil producers are starting to drill more wells, but big companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron have said they are not changing their plans as a result of the war with Iran.
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China Tightens Rare-Earth Grip on U.S. Firms, Threatening Trade Clash

The move targets two U.S. manufacturers at the center of the Trump administration’s effort to rebuild the domestic supply chain for critical magnets.

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MP Materials’ open-pit rare-earth mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., in 2020.
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While the World Scrambles for Oil, China Sits on Full Tanks

The possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may not prompt China to return quickly to prewar levels of oil purchases from the Persian Gulf.

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An oil refinery in Nanjing, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, last month. Chinese companies kept their refineries running throughout the war.
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Is Climate Change Supercharging El Niño?

As a new, potentially record-breaking El Niño begins, researchers are vigorously debating whether climate change is driving the phenomenon’s intensity.

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Fighting a wildfire in South Sumatra, Indonesia, during an El Niño-exacerbated dry season in 2023.
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Is Climate Change Supercharging El Niño?

As a new, potentially record-breaking El Niño begins, researchers are vigorously debating whether climate change is driving the phenomenon’s intensity.

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Fighting a wildfire in South Sumatra, Indonesia, during an El Niño-exacerbated dry season in 2023.
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Have You Bought a Tesla Recently? We Want to Hear From You.

Tesla sales are rebounding in Europe even though many people have negative feelings about Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. We want to know why.

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Tesla’s car sales took a big hit in Europe last year, in part because many people were turned off by the political views of the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk.
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Average U.S. Gas Price Falls Below $4 After U.S.-Iran Agreement

Drivers are enjoying some relief at the pump after the United States and Iran signed an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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Gasoline prices rose sharply after the start of U.S.-led war with Iran.
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U.S. Will Waive Oil Sanctions That Have Long Crimped Iran

The preliminary U.S.-Iran deal temporarily waives restrictions that have limited the country’s oil sales and how much money it has been able to make from those exports.

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An oil facility on Kharg Island, Iran, in 2017.
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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects

It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

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The Trump administration has now struck deals energy developers totaling more than $2.5 billion to cancel offshore wind leases.
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Trump’s FEMA Nominee Calls Staff Cuts a ‘Challenge’ for Disaster Agency

Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.

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Cameron Hamilton, President Trump’s FEMA nominee, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
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D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Pollution Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s Data Center

The department cited national security concerns, saying Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens.

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Construction at xAI’s power plant in Southaven, Miss., in February. The NAACP has sued the company over air pollution from generators there.
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New Coral Study Identifies Areas Where Reefs Are Hanging On

New research has identified areas around the world where cooler currents and other favorable conditions are helping to protect coral from the worst effects of global warming.
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