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3-mile deep geothermal well dug in Utah, reaching area of intense heat
“Fervo Energy, a geothermal energy startup, has drilled what it calls its ‘hottest and deepest well to-date‘ in southwest Utah.…
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Trump And Wright Move To Speed Nuclear Expansion
By David Blackmon Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced an ambitious plan to have three small modular reactors (SMRs) built and…
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Amazon planning to produce up to 10,000 robotaxis per year in California plant
Amazon’s Zoox is building a factory in the San Francisco Bay Area designed to produce up to 10,000 robotaxis per…
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Tariffs are killing toy manufacturer
Trump’s tariffs on China are driving a “small American manufacturing company” to “the verge of ruin,” notes George Mason University…
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Walmart to expand drone deliveries to 100 more stores in three states
“Walmart will soon offer drone delivery from 100 stores across Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, in addition to its…
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Technology being developed to help the world easily access enough clean water
“Several companies are exploring the possibility of desalinating water on the ocean floor. At those depths, the water is often…
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Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Inspires Hope For Permitting Reform
By David Blackmon It comes as a surprise to many Americans when they learn that the vast majority of decisions…
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Child labor falls sharply, even in nations that fail to enforce bans on child labor
The number of child laborers has fallen by 44% across the world since 2000, even as the world’s population has…
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Big, Beautiful Coal Here For Many More Years Despite ‘Green’ Demonization
By Vijay Jayaraj As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of…
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Lab-grown salmon cleared for sale in the United States
Lab-grown salmon has been cleared for sale in the United States. “Wildtype’s ‘cultured’ salmon is made in a lab from…
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Could China use its control over rare earth metals to shut down American industries?
China responded to President Trump’s tariff increases with various kinds of retaliation. Two months ago, China “suspended the export of…
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‘Affordable housing’ subsidies boost costs, making housing less affordable
The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) drives cost inflation in “affordable” housing projects, while costing taxpayers $14 billion per year,…
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Massive Offshore Wind Boondoggle Dead In Water
By Audrey Streb A massive offshore wind project set to be built off the New Jersey coast will be abandoned…
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Scientists develop rice that can withstand heat and drought
“Researchers have developed new rice varieties that are resistant to drought and heat—possibly useful for mitigating some of the consequences…
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Hydrogen, the so-called ‘fuel of the future,’ endangered the future of a company that bought into the hype
People claim hydrogen is the “fuel of the future,” so Air Products invested a ton of money on hydrogen. That…
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Trump Administration Greenlights Massive Coal Mining Plan
By Audrey Streb The Department of the Interior (DOI) approved a plan Friday that will allow for massive amounts of…
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Trump Admin Puts California On Notice: No More War On Appliances
By Audrey Streb The Department of Justice (DOJ) is threatening to take legal action against California regulators if they implement…
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Supreme Court limits scope of NEPA law that has been used to endlessly delay infrastructure projects
“The US Supreme Court has limited the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), ruling that federal agencies are…
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Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Woman Who Says She Lost Job For Not Being Gay
By Katelynn Richardson The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a woman on Thursday who claimed her employer discriminated against her…
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U.S. factory output falls due to higher tariffs
“U.S. factory activity contracted in May for a fourth consecutive month and a gauge of imports fell to a 16-year…
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New York City may adopt multi-year rent freeze that turns the city into a slum
Freezing rents for years turns cities into slums by destroying their housing stock. It leaves housing providers with too little…
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Trump says steel & aluminum tariffs will rise to 50%. That could wipe out many jobs in the auto industry, construction, and tool & machine industries.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum wipe out more jobs than they save, because “steel is produced by a tiny sliver…
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Corn production skyrockets
“Corn has a rich history stretching back thousands of years to Mesoamerica, where it was domesticated from a wild grass…
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California Democrats Rail Against Energy Regulations They Unleashed As Gas Crisis Looms
By Audrey Streb California Democrats are railing against state regulators for economic conditions they helped unleash now that a possible…
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China Finds Way To Quietly Keep Its Forced Labor System Alive
By Wallace White China has been moving Uyghur Muslims to factories outside of the Xinjiang region in order to skirt…
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Court of International Trade strikes down Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
Today, the U.S. Court of International Trade issued a unanimous ruling against Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs in a lawsuit filed…
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Regulation is making homes unaffordable across the world
“Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home…
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Belgium drops plan to shut down all nuclear power plants
“Belgium’s parliament on Thursday voted to drop the country’s planned nuclear phaseout. The motion was passed with 102 votes in…
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Colorado allows single-stairway buildings to reduce housing costs
A new law in Colorado allows the construction of apartment buildings with a single staircase, if the apartment building is…
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‘America is a manufacturing powerhouse’
Economist Scott Sumner explains why, contrary to widespread myths, “America is a manufacturing powerhouse”: It is important to recall that…
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Colorado forces the public to pay for unnecessary transgender medical procedures
Colorado’s Democratic governor has “just signed a bill forcing all of us to pay for elective transgender-affirming procedures… this bill…
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Trump administration rescinds Biden regulations that made it harder to clean clothes and dishes
The Trump administration is rescinding counterproductive Biden-era regulations that made it harder for people to get their clothes and dishes…
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Diamonds become cheaper, due to competition with synthetic diamonds, whose price has crashed
“Historically, diamonds represented wealth and exclusivity, accessible primarily to the affluent. However, technological advancements, particularly synthetic diamond production via High…
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Progressive New York mayoral candidate wants government-run grocery stores, which sometimes let food rot
The left-wing candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, wants city-run grocery stores. That’s a bad idea, notes…
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Extracting uranium from water could expand nuclear power
“There are 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around the Earth’s oceans, enough to power human civilization for millennia. A…
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Rubber Duck Museum moves to Canada in response to tariff hikes and U.S.-Canada tensions
The Rubber Duck Museum is moving across the border to Canada. It’s currently in Point Roberts, a small U.S. town…
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