About 450,000 residents in the Corpus Christi (Texas) metropolitan area are primarily served by fresh water from two severely threatened reservoirs, but the city has become increasingly reliant on water sent via the Mary Rhodes Pipeline from Lake Texana and the Colorado River. The city remains under stage 3 water restrictions despite recent heavy rains....
A federal decision to allow a large data center project on public land in southern Nevada is facing a growing legal challenge, setting up what opponents say could become a national test case for the Trump administration’s push to accelerate data center development. Read more in Newsweek here!
Investors know the Trump administration is worried about fuel prices — and they’re offering assistance. The White House has had discussions with a wide range of potential suitors to reopen defunct petroleum refineries from the Virgin Islands to California amid rising anxieties over higher fuel prices, according to three industry executives familiar with the talks. National Energy...
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Energy selected Tennessee as a finalist to host a “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus.” According to the governor’s office, the campus could bring billions of dollars in economic investment and create thousands of jobs. The DOE said the campus would support the development of domestic...
The White House is pushing Congress to break a decades-long impasse around the handling of nuclear waste and entice states to get on board, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. The Trump administration is seeking changes to federal law to allow the Department of Energy to partner with states willing to store waste generated...
Conservatives have long understood that conservation is not about locking away America’s natural treasures, but stewarding them through responsible use so future generations can enjoy the same public lands that earlier generations worked hard to secure. Just six years ago, President Donald Trump paid tribute to that legacy when he signed the original “Great American Outdoors Act”...
The Midwest and Northeast registered some of the worst air quality in the world last week as wildfire smoke shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze. More than 100 million Americans were under air-quality alerts, with smoke even reaching Washington, D.C., by the weekend. Most of the smoke came from Canada, where about 900 wildfires...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking steps to speed up progress in plant science by calling on universities and stakeholders to help build new AI tools that can translate the huge amount of germplasm data the agency collects. Through the Genesis Mission and the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AgARDA), USDA is...
Not long ago, the artificial intelligence boom lifted pretty much any stockwith a story to tell about serving electricity to data centers. Investors are getting more fretful about whether there will be enough power demand to go around. For them, selling into a tight market in the 2030s would be a nice way to fund the continued...
The Trump administration plans to announce Wednesday that it has reached a broad nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the country enriching its own fuel for nuclear reactors, U.S. officials said. The accord is intended to further bind the United States with the Saudi government as the war with Iran strains the...
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