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Will Trump Reorder Interconnection Queues for Natural Gas?
While the majority of IRA tax credits and incentives have gone to develop clean energy projects in Republican districts and states, House leadership leans heavily toward fossil fuel-producing states,
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EPA Gives W.Va. Primacy for Permitting CCS Injection Wells
West Virginia is the fourth state to be granted primacy for permitting Class VI wells.
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Judge Issues Restraining Order on Trump Admin over Funding Pause
D.C. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary restraining order on OMB from pausing all federal grants and loans.
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USEA Forum Charts New Focus on ‘All-of-the-above’ Energy Policies
The Energy Association's 21st Annual State of the Energy Industry Forum reflected the quickly shifting landscape of national energy policy and the resulting shift in industry priorities and narratives.
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CARB Drops Multiple EPA Waiver Requests Ahead of Trump Inauguration
California regulators have withdrawn their request for federal approval of a statewide ban on diesel truck sales after 2035, saying they’ve run out of time before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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EPA Approves Waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II Rules
Just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, the Biden administration has given California permission to enforce rules that require all new cars sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.
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Lame Duck Congress Could be Last, Best Chance for Permitting Reform
To move forward in the second Trump administration, both Democrats and Republicans will need to depoliticize the debate around climate and energy issues as they face the impacts of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather, while meeting growing power demand from artificial intelligence, data centers and new manufacturing.
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US Governors, Mayors to Pledge Ongoing Climate Action at COP29
President Biden and Vice President Harris will not travel to Azerbaijan for COP29, but a group of U.S. mayors, governors and corporate leaders is carrying a message of continued commitment to the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Trump 2.0: Rolling Back Regulations, IRA Funding
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Nov. 5, the clean energy industry is now obsessing over how far the next administration will push his own agenda in favor of fossil fuels,
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RFF Report Evaluates Biden Effort to Help Coal Communities
Resources for the Future released a report evaluating the Interagency Working Group on Energy Communities, a Biden administration effort to coordinate federal help to communities that lost jobs and other economic benefits from retiring coal plants and mines.

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