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These trains could carry giant batteries across Colorado and deliver clean energy to Denver

Fast Company Tech

And, even in areas where renewable energy projects are already online, their output is often heavily curtailed. SunTrain is currently working on a pilot project that would run between Pueblo, Colorado, and Denver. Across the U.S., This clean energy bottleneck stems from the fact that, as demand for renewable energy rises, the U.S.

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How does your nonprofit involve the local community in its programs and initiatives?

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Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Partner with Local Businesses and Offer Valuable Information As a historical society, we obviously link with other history-focused nonprofits, but we have developed many other relationships in both the public and private sectors. Our community has an active Main Street program.

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Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is coming in April. Here’s what it could mean for you

Fast Company Tech

But an undeterred Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in new projects to avoid the import taxes. Based off Trump’s public statements, April 2 is at least the third “liberation day” that he has identified. Most economic analyses say average U.S.

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Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts

Wired

In total, the government’s outstanding contracts with SpaceX and Tesla amount to about 2 percent of the projected deficit from the new spending bill. In the coming years, SpaceX is slated to directly collect about $34 billion from NASA and the US military for rocket-related projects.

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The most innovative companies for energy in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Propelled by record levels of public and private investment, utility-scale solar and wind power accounted for close to 90% of all new energy build-outs in the first nine months of 2024, a nearly 30% surge over 2023. climate policy, will struggle to reverse. Europe, and Australia.

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House Republicans push to sell public lands to fund Trump tax cuts

Fast Company Tech

House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmental groups who called the plan a betrayal that could lead to increased drilling, mining and logging in the West. Zinke and Rep.

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Nuro is building a factory and test track in Nevada for its autonomous delivery robots

The Verge

Both facilities will be located in Southern Nevada, which in recent years has become a hotbed for manufacturing and testing for the future of transportation. Nuro, which is valued at $5 billion, was founded in 2016 by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu , two veterans of the Google self-driving car project that would go on to become Waymo.