Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.
Energy and the Environment
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California Wildfire Package Preserves Survivors’ Legal Rights UPDATED
SB 492 stops short of a Marshall Plan for fire survivors, but it averts the harms of Gavin Newsom’s now-collapsed wildfire utility bailout.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout
At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.
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Drain Lake Powell
That would start what is the only sane water policy for the American West.
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The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready.
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
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FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
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Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.
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Better Affordability Through Climate Policy
It turns out fossil fuel prices are liable to increase suddenly and without warning. Who knew?
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Blackstone’s Utility Gambit in New Mexico Could Slip Away
Both the firm and the utility company it’s trying to take private face potential maximum fines and a hard reset of the acquisition process for flouting New Mexico state law.