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December 20, 2024
Tesla has lost several top staffers in the past few months, as it faces a challenging economic and policy environment. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Several members of Tesla’s lobbying and public policy team — including its top federal lobbyist — are departing the company, leaving the office responsible for influencing U.S. and
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President Joe Biden speaks at the Detroit Auto Show in Michigan in 2022. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration finalized guardrails for its electric vehicle tax credit on Friday that keep President Joe Biden’s EV adoption goals in sight but are likely to draw challenges from critics on both sides of the
READ MORECoal’s place in the economy has been in dramatic decline for years, displaced by cheap, abundant natural gas and the rise of renewable power as electricity producers bowed to demands to address climate change and the rising costs of abating pollution. | Chris Carlson/AP Coal, the fading powerhouse of the U.S. electricity system, is about
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The office running a crucial part of President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has Congress’ approval to lend more than $200 billion for next-generation energy projects — from solar farms and batteries to hydrogen production and lithium mining. So far, it’s given the go-ahead to a little more than $25 billion. And even as the administration
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The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse in August 2017 in Cerulean, Kentucky. | Timothy D. Easley/AP By Jason Plautz 04/08/2024 05:00 AM EDT a report from NREL. That event did not result in any major U.S. power outages. But the grid has changed significantly since then, with fossil fuel plants retiring
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The sun sets over Phoenix during a heat wave last July. | Matt York/AP By Robin Bravender 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT a one-page form with the Commerce Department 10 days before they do so, thanks to a law from the 1970s that requires reporting of efforts to modify the weather. That’s not enough, say academics
READ MOREThen-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (right) and then-President Barack Obama in February 2009. In a newly released interview, Chu said Obama should have used “the power of the presidency” to win lawmakers’ votes. | Ron Sachs/AFP via Getty Images By Robin Bravender, Timothy Cama and Kevin Bogardus 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT Oral histories produced by
READ MOREPresident Joe Biden’s policies — both the clean energy ones he’s publicly touted and the fossil fuel moves his administration prefers to keep quiet — have helped drive growth in renewables as well as oil and gas production. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO President Joe Biden is presiding over a historic boom in U.S.
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Former President Donald Trump is a big promoter of U.S. oil and gas, but the industry is wary of some of his policy priorities. | Eric Gay/AP HOUSTON — Oil and gas executives are chafing under President Joe Biden’s attempts to rein in their industry — but sweating at the thought that Donald Trump might
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The final version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Cars rule is the strictest federal climate regulation ever issued for passenger cars and trucks. | Paul Sancya/AP By Jean Chemnick and Mike Lee 03/20/2024 11:30 AM EDT Updated: 03/20/2024 01:11 PM EDT first proposed last spring. The agency estimated a year ago that the rule
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