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Energy

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Catastrophe for Oil

A double whammy of presidential policies — more OPEC output and historic trade levies — are sending fossil stocks tumbling.

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How to Save America’s Power Grid in 6 Steps

“Energy dominance” has to start with energy reliability.

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First Solar Is the Only Winner of Trump’s Tariffs

Just about every other renewable energy company is taking a beating today.

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The Climate Election You Missed

While you were watching Florida and Wisconsin, voters in Naperville, Illinois were showing up to fight coal.

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Exclusive: The Plans to Build AI Data Centers on Federal Land

The Department of Energy has put together a list of sites and is requesting proposals from developers, Heatmap has learned.

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<p>Heatmap Illustration/Getty Images</p>

The Department of Energy is moving ahead with plans to allow companies to build AI data centers and new power plants on federal land — and it has put together a list of more than a dozen sites nationwide that could receive the industrial-scale facilities, according to an internal memo obtained by Heatmap News.

The memo lists sites in Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Colorado, and other locations. The government could even allow new power plants — including nuclear reactors and carbon-capture operations — to be built on the same sites to generate enough electricity to power the data centers, the memo says.

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Renewable Energy Is Already Paying the Price for Copper Tariffs

They haven’t even been announced yet, but the idea that they will has sent prices soaring.

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<p>Heatmap Illustration/Getty Images, Ford</p>

China, Canada, Mexico, steel, aluminum, cars, and soon, copper. That’s what the market has concluded following a Bloomberg News report last week that copper tariffs would arrive far sooner than the 270 days President Trump gave the Department of Commerce to conduct its investigation into “dumping” of the metal.

Copper has been dubbed the “metal of electrification,” and demand for it is expected to skyrocket under any reasonable scenario to contain global temperature rise. Even according to a U.S. administration that, at best, neglects climate change considerations, copper is an “essential material for national security, economic strength, and industrial resilience,” as the Trump White House said while announcing its investigation into copper imports.

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