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Renewable Groups Ask Courts to End Pentagon’s β€˜Total Halt’ of Wind Power

More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine.

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The freeze affects 41 wind projects in Texas, which produces more wind power than any other state in the U.S., as well as projects in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
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Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure.

As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.

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A talk on rising energy costs on Capitol Hill hosted by Democrats, from left, Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, in March.
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Trump Muses About Government Taking a Piece of A.I. Companies

President Trump touched on what is an increasingly hot topic in Washington: how average Americans can get a piece of the tech industry’s A.I. windfall.
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ANWR Oil Draws Few Bids, Despite Trump’s Push for β€˜Liquid Gold’

An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.

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Caribou on the tundra of the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Trump Announces $700 Million in Funds Meant to Boost Coal Industry

The president announced a total of $700 million in federal money to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, which has been in decline for decades.

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Of the roughly $700 million in total funding, $425 million would be used to upgrade and extend the life of 13 coal plants that otherwise might have closed in the coming years.
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Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

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Recovering a surface buoy β€” part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean β€” from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

The order, which signaled a shift from the hands-off approach the White House had previously taken toward A.I., followed debates over how to gain control of A.I. models without disrupting innovation.
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