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Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards

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The Department of Energy announced today that it would be clawing back $3.7 billion worth of awards made under the Biden administration for clean energy and manufacturing. Large corporations and growing startups were caught up in the decision. Energy secretary Chris Wrights said the moves were “due diligence” on the part of the Trump administration. […]

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Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output

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The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) increased the yield of the experiment, first to 5.2 megajoules and then again to 8.6 megajoules, according to a source

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Trump-appointed judge orders Trump admin to ‘turn the funding spigots back on’

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The Trump administration has made no secret that it dislikes disbursing money authorized by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But on Tuesday, a federal judge issued an order “requiring the agencies to turn the funding spigots back on.” Under President Donald Trump, federal agencies have used his executive orders

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Trump admin directs DOE officials to shield DOGE documents from disclosure

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The Department of Energy has told employees that documents used by DOGE to assess the agency’s grants and contracts should be marked with “legal privilege” to prevent them from being disclosed under Freedom of Information Act requests.  DOGE has supplied the agency with spreadsheets, which are to be completed by agency officials, to identify grants

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Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting

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The Department of Energy (DOE) is on a loan-approval spree in the lead-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the winners are all companies manufacturing clean energy solutions on U.S. soil. Companies like Stellantis and Samsung, Rivian, and most recently, EVgo. Trump has promised to cancel any unspent federal dollars under President Joe Biden’s Inflation

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Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting

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The Department of Energy (DOE) appears to be on a loan-approval spree in the lead-up to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the winners are all companies manufacturing clean energy solutions on U.S. soil. Trump has promised to cancel any unspent federal dollars under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a bipartisan climate law that allocated

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Trump’s pro-fracking energy secretary pick has also invested in geothermal and nuclear startups

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President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would be nominating Chris Wright, CEO of oilfield services company Liberty Resources, to the post of energy secretary.  Wright has been a big booster of oil and gas. From his perch at Liberty, Wright last year denied that there’s a climate crisis or that it’ll result in

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Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago

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Cement startup Furno will receive a $20 million grant from the Department of Energy, funds that will help the company build up to eight micro-kilns at a concrete plant in Chicago.  Chicago might not seem like the sort of place where cement is hard to come by. But with the nearest kiln 100 miles away,

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