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Climate Policy and Regulation

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

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

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

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

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Scientists just found ancient underground rocks in Canada quietly making hydrogen on their own — a possible natural wellspring of clean fuel

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the threat of summer blackouts

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Energy Department just handed eight companies $94 million to fast-track small modular reactors — clearing the licensing and supply snags that stall new plants

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

China’s ‘artificial sun’ just pushed its fusion plasma past a density limit physicists long called unreachable — inching closer to power too cheap to meter

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The U.S. Navy is bringing nuclear-armed cruise missiles back to its attack submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon mothballed for decades

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A stalled storm just drowned Indonesia’s Jambi province in days of rain — flooding and landslides swept through 21 villages and forced thousands from their homes

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The U.S. Navy is putting nuclear-tipped cruise missiles back on its submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon retired decades ago

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Two strong earthquakes just rattled the Pacific within hours — a magnitude 5.7 off Papua New Guinea and a 5.6 deep in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Strong tornadoes and baseball-size hail threaten the Plains through Memorial Day — the Storm Prediction Center flags a multiday outbreak as 27 million hit the road

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon volcano keeps sending glowing rockfalls down its slopes as 287,000 Filipinos remain locked out of the danger zone around the cone

By Everett Sloane

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