Energy
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Zelensky critical of Trump plan to buy Russia diesel oil, says amount won't lower global prices
Zelensky argues the amount being imported is too small to lower costs on the global market.
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Climate judicial training biasing judges in climate litigation cases, House Judiciary report finds
A House Judiciary Committee investigation into the Environmental Policy Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project confirms critics’ claims that the group’s judicial training provides activist-driven materials aimed at biasing judges overseeing climate litigation cases.
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Trump contemplating a ban on diesel exports, but experts warn relief would be temporary
As conflicts in Russia and the Middle East reduce global refinery output, the resulting high diesel prices are hitting Americans. Trump and lawmakers are looking for solutions, but experts say a ban on diesel exports would lower prices only temporarily and potentially bring long-term harms.
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The renter's electric vehicle conundrum
Landlords question the rationale behind covering the costs, while tenants who may only stay for several years are hesitate to pay for installations. Condo owners face the additional hurdle of homeowner association board approvals.
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130 Congressional Republicans tell Biden to drop his EV mandate
The lawmakers cite data from the Energy Information Administration that 80% of new vehicles will run on liquid fuels in 2050.
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Oversight Committee says new docs show Biden admin ignoring cost and legality of emissions rules
In June, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan expressing concerns about the rules and asking for documents and communications about the EPA's proposed emissions standards.
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Federal court shoots down coal leasing moratorium, but leasing won't resume without BLM approvals
Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association said the ruling was good news, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Bureau of Land Management will begin approving lease applications.
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U of I nuclear professor encouraged by record setting fusion test
Using the Joint European Torus (JET), a huge, donut-shaped machine known as a tokamak, scientists in Great Britain were able to sustain a record amount of fusion energy for five seconds, enough to power around 12,000 homes.
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California 2035 zero-emission vehicle mandate is illegal, think tank says
The Texas Public Policy Foundation says the EPA lacks the authority to grant the California Air Resources Board the ability to enforce this rule and stated CARB had failed to consider the emissions produced full lifecycle of zero-emission vehicles, such as from battery production, and not just tailpipe emissions.
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Washington industries seek to pause new state energy code
The motion is the latest in a political and legal battle over what heating sources new residential and commercial buildings should be able to use, and if so how.
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Maine’s public schools purchased taxpayer-subsidized electric buses but say they are defective
The Biden administration's electric school bus program comes on the heels of the Proterra debacle. Cities across the U.S. purchased hundreds of electric buses from failed Silicon Valley-based Proterra.
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Auto execs: Chinese EVs could 'demolish' US production
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed spending $25 million to provide a $2,500 subsidy for a union-made EV on top of the $7,500 federal EV subsidy for a total of $85 million in proposed subsidies for 2025.
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Biden administration to relax electric vehicle mandate deadlines through the end of the decade
Auto manufacturers will be required to increase the percentage of electric vehicles they sell gradually through 2030, and the mandates would sharply rise thereafter.