New York Lawmakers on Track to Halt Data Center Construction

New York lawmakers are set to approve a one-year ban on data center development and other guardrails amid residential concerns the large energy users could spike utility costs.

Texas Moves Forward With New Plan to Power Data Center Boom

Texas is progressing with a novel approach to address a deluge of power demand from data centers that’s threatening to overwhelm the grid.

Trump Defeats Youth in Climate Change Suit on Energy Policy

A group of youth plaintiffs lost their bid to reverse the dismissal of their case against three energy-focused executive orders from President Donald Trump.

States Sue Trump Over Deal to End TotalEnergies Wind Lease

New York and several other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its deal with French energy company TotalEnergies SE to end two offshore wind leases and instead direct that money into US fossil fuel projects.

Red States’ Sound Science Laws Echo Trump Regulatory Overhaul

Republican-led states are following President Donald Trump’s lead and making it harder for their agencies to exceed federal environmental standards.

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Trump Tightens Grip on Federal Workers Even in Scaled-Back Form

President Donald Trump’s executive order stripping key civil-service protections from 8,000 top-level federal employees falls short of a wholesale remake of government, but it addresses a longstanding contention by Republicans that senior non-political employees who shape policy operate with little accountability to the president—and the voters who elected him.

Gates-Backed Firm Says Its Fusion Tech Validated to Make Power

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC, which has raised almost $3 billion from investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Nvidia Corp.’s venture arm, says five peer-reviewed papers validate the physics underpinning its first commercial-scale power plant.

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