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Energy Secretary falsely claimed Navy escorted tanker through Strait of Hormuz – markets lost $84 million while he tried to backtrack

Gave the market false hope.

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The consumer-friendly Energy Star program survived Trump. What about other efficiency efforts?

Energy Star, the program that helps guide consumers to more energy-efficient appliances and electronics, has survived President Donald Trump’s attempt to kill it

The Independent UK

Ethics panel sounds the alarm after Trump official appears in jewelry ad using government title

An Energy Department spokesperson said that the ad was an ‘oversight that has since been addressed’

The Independent UK

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Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon

The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the nature of modern conflict: the convergence of physical and cyber warfare. While U.S. special operations forces carried out the dramatic seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a far…

The Conversation

China exploits US-funded research on nuclear technology, a congressional report says

A congressional report says China is exploiting partnerships with U.S. researchers to provide the Chinese military with access to sensitive nuclear technology and other innovations with economic and national security applications

The Independent UK

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that power.

The Conversation

Trump team takes out the words ‘renewable energy’ from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The decades-old lab serves as the federal government’s primary hub for creating and improving energy technologies

The Independent UK

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Cooking with gas gets more expensive as Americans face rising prices into 2026

Trump promised to cut consumers’ energy costs within his first year in office but gas price is up 4% on average

The Guardian - US

US Genesis Mission Leaves Out xAI as DOE Partners Warn of High-Stakes Research Impact

The US Genesis Mission, a massive national AI initiative launched by President Trump and led by the DOE, aims to accelerate scientific discovery by leveraging federal data and top partners such as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

International Business Times UK

Republicans want to cut funding designed to help expand the nation’s energy grid

The cuts come as Republicans are facing pressure to lower household costs like energy bills

The Independent UK

Amentum Stock Jumped During Market Hours: Here's What You Need To Know

Amentum Holdings Inc (NYSE:AMTM) shares traded significantly higher during Wednesday’s session and flattened after the market closed. In light of the Trump administration’s aggressive nuclear energy expansion policies, investors are paying more attention to the company’s position in U.S. nuclear infrastructure.

Benzinga

Could a toxic metal plume threaten New Mexico residents?

The large underground body of contaminated water, a result of decades of flushed-out coolant from a power plant at Los Alamos, is raising concerns that it could eventually reach nearby wells

The Independent UK

AMD and the US government sign $1 billion deal for two massive supercomputers - is the global AI war finally heating up?

The US and AMD are investing $1 billion in two supercomputers to advance AI and scientific computing.

TechRadar

‘Wake up, Mr. President’: Newsom rips into Trump’s nuclear testing. Then he reveals what’s wrong with the directive

Trump can't even name the right department for his nuclear stunt.

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The Independent UK

Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world

Trump’s command risks a global arms race while the Doomsday clock ticks closer than ever to midnight, experts say

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins

Nvidia and HPE will build the Mission and Vision supercomputers for Los Alamos based on the Vera Rubin platform to advance national-security and open-science research using AI simulation and scientific computing.

Benzinga

American Battery Technology Shares Traded Lower Monday: What's Going On?

American Battery Technology Company (NASDAQ:ABAT) shares are trading lower Monday amid a pullback in the battery sector on recent reports that the Department of Energy canceled more than $700 million in battery and manufacturing awards.

Benzinga

American Battery Technology Company Stock Is Moving Lower Wednesday: What's Going On?

American Battery Technology Company (NASDAQ:ABAT) shares are trading lower Wednesday, among other battery-related companies. Recent reports suggested that the Department of Energy canceled more than $700 million in battery and manufacturing awards.

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The Independent UK

Nation’s nuclear weapon watchdog gutted to just 400 workers from nearly 2,000 as Trump shutdown layoffs hit agency

National Nuclear Security Administration is tasked with safeguarding U.S.’s nuclear stockpile. ‘These are not employees that you want to go home,’ one congressman said

The Independent UK

Energy Department offers $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across Midwest

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy

InsideEVs

Here Are The EV Winners And Losers Right Before The Tax Credits Died

The EV tax credit is over, but we've finally got some data on which models won, and which didn't. Also, some big EV manufacturing projects may be dead.

The Conversation

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short flashes of X-rays can help scientists peer into the structure of individual atoms and molecules and differentiate types of elements.

The Guardian - US

‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure

As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects

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Here’s How AI Could Be Driving Up Your Electricity Bills — and What You Can Do About It

Here's what you can do to lower your electricity bills.

Fortune

Trump’s energy department said wind and solar energy capacity is ‘worthless’ without sunlight or wind. Elon Musk reminds DoE about batteries: ‘Um… hello?’

Musk touted a massive energy storage project in Australia designed to stabilize the grid and expand renewable use.

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