When Michigan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant shut down in 2022, it was supposed to be for good. The plant, which sits on the coast of Lake Michigan, had company — dozens of other reactors had already been wound down. But soon after the turbines stopped spinning, those plans changed. A little-known company from Camden,…
President Trump on Thursday announced $700 million in new federal funding for the country’s struggling coal industry, including money that would help build the first two new coal-burning power plants in the United States in more than a decade. It was the latest in a series of extraordinary efforts by his administration to improve the…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated on Tuesday that the United States may resume its funding of a global vaccines alliance that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled the United States out of last year, an unusual public rebuke of Mr. Kennedy’s involvement in matters of global health. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Mr. Rubio…
Officials are working to withdraw a small number of Americans who have been directly affected by an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the C.D.C. said on Sunday. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency on Saturday, a day after it was first…
Federal disaster declarations, which unlock millions of dollars in aid for communities hit by catastrophes, have been delayed significantly in President Trump’s second term, and money is flowing especially slowly to states that Mr. Trump lost in the 2024 election, according to a New York Times analysis. The review of Federal Emergency Management Agency data…
The federal government has not reported any complete data on nationwide enrollment since that grace period ended. In a normal year, the next such report would be published in July. But reports from states that run their own marketplaces are already showing larger declines. Even among those states, the impact of the lost funding has…
Mayor Heddlesten has long sideburns and a mustache that curls around the corners of his mouth. The day we met, he was wearing his patriotic glasses, emblazoned with the American flag. Audio clip of Weinberger: Are your eyeglasses, is it the red, white, and blue? Are they — oh, wow. They’re magnetic. Audio clip of…
A trade group representing low-cost airlines said Monday that it is asking the Trump administration for $2.5 billion to offset some of the cost of fuel, which has surged because of the war with Iran. The request comes as jet fuel prices have climbed to about $4.10 a gallon in North America at the end…
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a series of decisions that wind and solar developers say have throttled hundreds of renewable energy projects across the country. Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit that a coalition…
