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Clean Energy Week, North Dakota-style

By Mayor Brandon Bochenski, Grand Forks, N.D.

So long, plastic air pillows: Amazon shifts to recycled paper filling for packages in North America

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

To better support U.S. innovation, modernize the Energy Department

By Jeremy Harrell

This Nov. 16, 2015 photograph, an overview shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss., that has now been demolished. A former construction manager is suing to force Mississippi Power and parent Southern Co. to repay $382 million in federal aid given to the failed clean coal plant, saying the company lied repeatedly about the plant’s cost overruns and spiraling delays to subsidy payments coming. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Whistleblower says utility should repay $382 million in federal aid given to failed clean coal plant

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

FILE - Construction continues on the first of two manufacturing plants as part of the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Ky., Dec. 5, 2022. Massive battery plants planned in Tennessee and Kentucky for Ford's electric vehicles are on track to receive up to a $9.2 billion federal loan, in what would be the biggest award under the U.S. Department of Energy's loan program since President Joe Biden took office. (Gina Clear/The News-Enterprise via AP, File)

Tennessee, Kentucky battery plants for Ford electric vehicles on track for $9.2B federal loan

By Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

Time to end business as usual with China

By U.S. Sen. John Barrasso

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his student debt relief plan at Central New Mexico Community College, Nov. 3, 2022, in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden seeks to purge Conservatives from federal jobs

By Adrian Norman

President Joe Biden drives a Cadillac Lyriq through the showroom during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show, Sept. 14, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden is killing America’s love affair with cars

By Tim Constantine

The corn-as-fuel boondoggle

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A currency trader watches monitors in front of screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 17, 2022. Asian stock prices have surged for a second day after the Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate hike since 2008 and China promised support for its real estate and internet industries. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Wall Street’s big rally slows as oil climbs back above $100

By Stan Choe - Associated Press

The earth's shadow covers the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse as it sets beyond the U.S. flag on top of a building, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in downtown Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

‘Vital next step’: NASA seeks ideas for nuclear reactor on moon

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

Cleaner supply of titanium illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

U.S. needs its own cleaner supply of titanium

By Anastasios Arima

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, a sign at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is posted near Richland, Wash. Officials say an underground nuclear waste storage tank that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground. The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday, April 29, 2021, that Tank B-109 holds 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste left from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

US: Nuclear waste tank in Washington state may be leaking

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

New Mexico nuclear waste repository to use electric vehicles

Associated Press

Innovation is the political sweet spot for climate solutions

By Rich Powell

Natural gas is critical to our cleaner energy future

By U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito

FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy has confirmed that two underground structures at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state have been stabilized after they were deemed at risk of collapsing and spreading radioactive contamination into the air. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Nuclear waste structures in Washington state are stabilized

Associated Press

US officials OK plan to send radioactive waste to Idaho

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Nevada Democrats re-introduce push to block Yucca Mountain

Associated Press