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Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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Boston and Cambridge’s decades-old district energy system is being retooled to shift away from gas and toward heat pumps and electric boilers.
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As China has begun to impose restrictions on rare earths, a one-year pause not withstanding, the U.S. is racing to build up its own supply chain.
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Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent, Alphabet, expand into more areas.
On Monday, Waymo said it's bringing its ride-hailing service to three new cities: Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit. As part of the rollout, Waymo is deploying both its Jaguar I-Pace fleet, which already operates in a handful of other cities, as well as the newer Zeeker RT vehicles that are equipped with Waymo's latest, sixth-generation self-driving technology. The company plans to open up to public riders in the new locations next year. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Austin, Texas, which use the all-electric Jaguar I-Pace. The vehicles can be summoned either via the Waymo app or Uber, depending on the city. Waymo's expansions have ramped up in recent months, with Nashville, New York, Denver and Seattle joining the roster of upcoming robotaxi locations. In an Aug. 29 blog post, Waymo said it's "entering a new chapter and accelerating our commercial expansion."
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Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced export controls on rare earth elements and rare earth magnets, asserting authority not only over the raw materials that are critical to modern manufacturing but also over the mining, processing, and magnet-making technologies that enable their production. The licensing regime is expansive and can pull certain foreign-made products into Beijing’s dragnet if they contain even trace amounts of Chinese-origin rare earth content. China did not need to impose an outright export ban to make its point: The Chinese Communist Party, as a result of a decades-long industrial policy, holds a near-monopoly position over rare earths and rare earth magnets—inputs essential for the manufacture of a wide range of modern defense and industrial goods—giving Beijing a chokepoint that, if fully leveraged, could bring factories in the United States and around the world to a standstill.
The response from U.S. policymakers reflected the severity of the threat, the extent to which this dependency had been allowed to deepen, and the scale of the policy response necessary to neutralize it.
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HYANNIS – Development has stopped for a proposed wind energy project in the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Oil and energy companies BP and JERA have canceled Beacon Wind, which wa…
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Technical Report, October 30, 2025 - Overview The Public Advocates Office at the California Public Utilities Commission has undertaken a new study examining the costs of upgrading the distribution grids of California's three largest investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) to meet the state's transportation electrification goals.
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With promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks, server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics. Are they a boon for communities, or a burden?
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Germany has potentially uncovered a significant lithium deposit in the Altmark region, a discovery that could reshape the European electric vehicle battery supply chain. This find challenges existing global lithium production dynamics and offers Germany a chance to bolster its domestic manufacturing capabilities. Explore the implications of this "huge lithium jackpot" for Germany's energy transition and its relationship with China.
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Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
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OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India | by Jagmeet Singh | TechCrunch.com
ChatGPT Go is now free for Indian users under a limited-time promotional offer.
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WELLFLEET/ORLEANS – A public hearing with the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee of Environment and Natural Resources is scheduled today at 1 pm to discuss a pair…
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A federal court judge is allowing the Trump administration to reconsider the approval of a major federal permit for a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, which was granted days before the president’s inauguration
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Portland General Electric used Gridcare’s software to identify extra space on its grid — available to any existing data center willing to be flexible.
A first-of-a-kind project underway outside Portland, Oregon, could provide a model for data centers to connect to the grid without driving up utility bills and carbon emissions.
Silicon Valley startup Gridcare launched in May with a promise that its artificial intelligence–powered software can help actualize one of the hottest concepts in the electricity sector: data center flexibility. Last month, it announced the successful use of its software by utility Portland General Electric (PGE) to bring 80 megawatts of data center load online next year in Hillsboro, Oregon.
That’s not a ton of new computing load, considering the gigawatts’ of prospective data center expansions being planned across the country. But as a real-world example of a utility planning around a data center’s commitment to reduce power use during moments of high demand, the project may well be a breakthrough.
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A United Nations assessment released ahead of COP30 warns that countries' latest pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement could push global temperatures to 2.3-2.5°C above preindustrial levels.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A new report says America’s lobsters, which have been in decline since 2018, are now being overfished off New England. The stock has declined by 34% since that year in its mo…
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“Are we just going to turn everybody loose and let the fires burn our houses down?” Nevada just did — and others may follow.
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MASHPEE – Mashpee residents have approved a wastewater treatment system to benefit Mashpee Wakeby Pond. Town meeting had previously approved the borrowing of about $26 million for the new system to be constructed on Gunters Lane.
The project will also clean up Popponesset Bay.
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Studies show that virtually every American—more than 97% of the population, according to one study—has at least one endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) in their body. These synthetic compounds can interfere with the body's hormone system, which regulates essential functions including growth, metabolism, reproduction, and more.
Countless everyday products contain EDCs, including:
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Editor’s note: This article was updated on October 22 following a 48-hour review period related to the AWS outage, reflecting an upward revision of the total Downdetector user report volume from 16M+ to 17M+.
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) disruption on October 20, 2025, centered on its “US‑EAST‑1” cloud region triggered a wave of failures across consumer apps, finance, government portals and parts of Amazon’s own services. Downdetector® recorded 17M+ user reports (+970% increase on average daily baseline) and disruptions at over 3,500 companies across more than 60 countries, placing this among the largest internet outages on record for Downdetector.
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Experts around the world have expressed a wide range of concerns about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, particularly its impact on the planet, and a report released Wednesday, by the Center for Biological Diversity, details how fossil fuel-powered data centers for the AI industry in the United States are “threatening to sabotage the country’s already faltering climate goals.”
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New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands.
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Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave | by Kenny Stancil | LeverNews.com
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
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SOUTH YARMOUTH – A new federal grant will help to update Cape Cod’s Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan.
The Cape Cod Cooperative Extension says the update will provide the Cape’s 15 towns with new wildfire risk maps, town-specific strategies, and an online hub of resources designed to keep forests healthy and communities safe.
The Extension says Cape Cod’s pitch pine barrens and scrub oak landscapes are naturally fire-prone, and more than 100,000 acres of open space lie where forests and neighborhoods meet.
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