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Why red states are pulling ahead in America’s clean energy race
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Why red states are pulling ahead in America’s clean energy race

Renewable energy generation is surging across many of the country’s red-leaning states, positioning some to outpace their bluer peers in a national drive toward grid decarbonization. Their emerging leadership in the area in some ways defies the political battle lines that have been drawn on energy in recent years. On the federal level, Democrats have...

US senators reintroduce bill to allow year-round, nationwide E15 sales
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US senators reintroduce bill to allow year-round, nationwide E15 sales

U.S. senators reintroduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday that would allow nationwide sales of gasoline with a higher blend of ethanol year-round, a plan that has the support of a leading oil trade group. Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican from Nebraska, introduced the bill with senators including Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, and said...

Texas Seeks Primacy For Carbon Capture And Storage Permitting
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Texas Seeks Primacy For Carbon Capture And Storage Permitting

A coalition of Texas energy and industrial organizations urged the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to swiftly grant the state primacy over carbon capture and storage (CCS) permitting.   The groups argue that this shift would stimulate private investment and accelerate the deployment of carbon capture technology. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin,...

Low-Energy Fridays: Do we want energy independence or energy security?
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Low-Energy Fridays: Do we want energy independence or energy security?

President Donald J. Trump recently announced tariffs on imports, which will cover energy commodities like oil and gas to a certain extent. At a glance, this policy may appear to advance “energy independence,” an agenda Trump favored on the campaign trail—but it’s not quite so simple. Defenders of tariffs on energy would point out that they will reduce...

Chairman Capito Questions CCUS Leaders on USE IT Act Implementation, CCUS Project Permitting
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Chairman Capito Questions CCUS Leaders on USE IT Act Implementation, CCUS Project Permitting

Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led a hearing on advancing carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies, and examining the implementation of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act or USE IT Act. During the hearing, Chairman Capito questioned Kevin Connors, Assistant Director for Regulatory...

India and France sign SMR and AMR partnership letter of intent
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India and France sign SMR and AMR partnership letter of intent

French President Emmanuel Macron and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed a Declaration of Intent for establishing a partnership on advanced modular reactors and small modular reactors after talks in France. They also visited the multinational ITER nuclear fusion project. As well as the declaration of intent, the two renewed a memorandum of understanding...

Corning Leads Carbon Capture Innovation with Honeycomb Substrates
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Corning Leads Carbon Capture Innovation with Honeycomb Substrates

As the fight against climate change intensifies, carbon capture technology has become a critical solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Leading this innovation is Corning’s ceramic honeycomb substrate—originally designed to reduce vehicle emissions, now repurposed to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) at an industrial scale. Carbon capture extracts CO2 from the atmosphere or industrial exhaust streams...

Our Energy Crisis Has a Nuclear Solution
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Our Energy Crisis Has a Nuclear Solution

America faces an energy crisis. With skyrocketing energy demand and threats of increased blackouts, we’re left with question after question—but nuclear energy may just offer some answers. As promised, President Trump has already embarked on his mission to make the U.S. energy-dominant. To do this, he’s begun work on several key initiatives that will drastically improve...

On Chile’s coast, a rare earths mining operation seeks to uplift locals and counter China
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On Chile’s coast, a rare earths mining operation seeks to uplift locals and counter China

While the hilltop overlook here boasts a splendid view of the Pacific coast, the land all around us is far less impressive. Municipal garbage trucks rumble along gravel roads to an adjacent landfill. Stumps and branches of dead eucalyptus trees form huge piles, refuse left behind by a former commercial forestry operation. Aclara Resources, the...

Bipartisan groups in Congress introduce bill to protect strategic petroleum reserve
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Bipartisan groups in Congress introduce bill to protect strategic petroleum reserve

 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill to limit, not prohibit, the sale of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The Banning SPR Oil Exports to Foreign Adversaries Act was filed in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, John Fetterman, D-Penn., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. U.S. Reps. Chrissy...

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