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The U.S. just logged its hottest 12 months ever recorded — and now a Memorial Day cold blast will plunge the Plains 20 degrees below normal

An entire Pennsylvania nuclear plant just got reserved to feed Amazon’s AI data centers — nearly 2 gigawatts of reactor power locked up for 17 years

There’s clean hydrogen buried under America — and the USGS just mapped the first continent-wide hunt for a fuel that makes itself underground

The world just added more solar power in a single year than the entire output of America’s nuclear fleet — and the pace is still accelerating

A building heat dome will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Plains next week — threatening dozens of daily records after the holiday

Engineers just finished assembling the most powerful magnet ever built — the 1,000-ton heart of the $22 billion reactor chasing limitless fusion energy

A rare late-May snowstorm will bury the highest peaks of the Rockies this weekend — even as the Plains just below swelter toward 100 degrees in the same system

The EPA just finalized rules forcing power plants to capture their carbon or shut down by the 2030s — the first federal limits on existing plants’ emissions

Forecasters warn a sharp cold pocket will trail this weekend’s storms — plunging parts of the Plains 15 to 20 degrees below normal just days after triple-digit heat

A building heat ridge will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Central Plains next week — threatening dozens more daily records

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open and forecasters are watching its first disturbance — even as the Atlantic braces for a quieter year

AccuWeather now expects U.S. wildfires to scorch as much as 8 million acres this year — with more than 60% of the country already locked in drought

The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes aiming at holiday crowds

The Storm Prediction Center just outlined a Level 3 tornado threat over Kansas and western Missouri for Sunday — strong twisters, damaging wind, and huge hail possible

North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from closing coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

Data centers are on track to triple their slice of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

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