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    ‘You can’t see China now as a reliable supply-chain partner’: Graphite mines forsaken for 70 years come back into fashion

    Graphite is a key material in the lithium-ion batteries that power everything from phones to electric cars.

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
    December 27, 2025

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    Trinity Gas Storage recently completed the first, new major storage hub in years, and an East Texas expansion is already underway.
    Energy

    Little-known underground salt caverns could slow the AI boom and its thirst for power

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    December 23, 2025
    CEO of Boeing and Lockheed rocket joint venture ULA resigns
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    CEO of Boeing and Lockheed rocket joint venture ULA resigns

    By Loren Grush and Bloomberg
    December 22, 2025
    Trump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning
    North America

    Trump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
    December 22, 2025
    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand
    Energy

    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025
    U.S. pursues another tanker skirting Venezuela sanctions as GOP senator calls seizures a ‘provocation and a prelude to war’
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    U.S. pursues another tanker skirting Venezuela sanctions as GOP senator calls seizures a ‘provocation and a prelude to war’

    By Aamer Madhani and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025
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    Commentary

    2025: the year sustainability didn’t die 

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    December 21, 2025
    Georgia regulators approve 50% power capacity boost, betting that massive AI data center demand will eventually materialize
    Energy

    Georgia regulators approve 50% power capacity boost, betting that massive AI data center demand will eventually materialize

    By Jeff Amy and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025
    Trump gives an OK sign while giving a speech in the White House
    Environment

    Trump goes nuclear: The president’s tech and media umbrella will merge with a fusion reactor developer in a deal valued north of $6 billion

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    December 18, 2025
    RJ Scaringe, wearing a dark green shirt and glasses, gestures with both hands as he speaks.
    North America

    Rivian CEO says midprice EV sales are still 50% Tesla: ‘That’s not a reflection of a healthy market’

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    December 18, 2025
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    Commentary

    How Bentley’s brand is creating business advantage in disruptive times 

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    December 18, 2025
    Woodside Energy CEO Meg O'Neill speaks while seated on the sidelines of an energy conference.
    Energy

    Embattled BP replaces CEO, naming Woodside Energy chief as first-ever woman leader of a Big Oil giant

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    December 17, 2025
    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the roundtable, Trump addressed questions on the Federal Reserve’s latest decision to cut interest rates and reports that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, among other topics.
    Energy

    A U.S. oil blockade on Venezuela could ‘devastate’ its economy and further pressure Maduro. But how far is Trump willing to take it?

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    December 17, 2025
    Gasoline delivery truck driver Robert Clark prepares to fill the underground gas tanks at a Shell station in Glendale California. Fuel prices in December 2025 are the lowest since the pandemic in early 2021.
    Energy

    Prices at the gas pump are the lowest since the pandemic and still falling—just in time for record-high holiday travel

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    December 17, 2025
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    Energy

    Trump orders blockade of all ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela

    By Michelle L. Price and The Associated Press
    December 17, 2025
    Detroit, Michigan, Residents picket DTE Energy, opposing the electric utility's plan to provide power for a proposed $7 billion data center in rural Michigan.
    Environment

    A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom

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    December 16, 2025
    CARACAS, VENEZUELA - A member of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces holds an "Igla-S" rocket launcher during a military ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the presentation of the 'Sword of Peru' to Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar on November 25, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. The United States recently designated the "Cartel De Los Soles" (Cartel of The Suns) as a foreign terrorist organization, a group allegedly led by the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and which, it is presumed, includes high-ranking members of the Venezuelan government.
    Energy

    Everything the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela involves oil and regime change—even if the White House won’t admit it

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    December 14, 2025
    Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week, Dec. 6-12, 2025
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    Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week, Dec. 6-12, 2025

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    December 12, 2025
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    Coca-Cola names 30-year veteran Henrique Braun as new CEO

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
    December 11, 2025
    A drill pad is positioned at Critical Metals' Tanbreez Project in Greenland during a drilling campaign.
    Energy

    In race to end China’s chokehold on critical minerals, the U.S. needs all the friends it can get

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    December 9, 2025
    Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, pictured in May 2023, warns of record debt issuance by AI companies during an infrastructure boom.
    Big Tech

    Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says 

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    December 9, 2025
    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’
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    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’

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    December 9, 2025
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    Environment

    ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 6, 2025
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    Environment

    The rise of AI reasoning models comes with a big energy tradeoff

    By Rachel Metz, Dina Bass and Bloomberg
    December 5, 2025
    Construction workers are getting a salary bump for working on data center projects during the AI boom.
    AI

    Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom

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    December 5, 2025
    Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
    Energy

    How a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers

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    December 5, 2025
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    Energy

    Meta’s Zuckerberg plans deep cuts for metaverse efforts

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
    December 4, 2025
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    Commentary

    I built the first iPhone with Steve Jobs. The AI industry is at risk of repeating an early smartphone mistake

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    December 4, 2025
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    North America

    In just 13 years, Giving Tuesday has grown into a $4 billion philanthropic bonanza

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
    December 4, 2025
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    Investing

    Worldwide markets roiled by data-center snafu in Chicago suburb

    By Katherine Doherty, Isis Almeida, Sagarika Jaisinghani, Lynn Doan and Bloomberg
    November 30, 2025
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    Environment

    Why the world’s top coffee producer is switching up its beans

    By Renata Carlos Daou and Bloomberg
    November 30, 2025

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