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Energy Department Cancels Solar Program For Low Income Residents Of Puerto Rico
The federal government has pulled the rug out from under Puerto Rico again by cancelling funding for distributed solar.
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Germany’s Audit Court Calls Time on Hydrogen Inevitability
The October 2025 special report from Germany’s Federal Audit Court, Implementation of the Federal Government’s Hydrogen Strategy, lands with unusual weight because it is not a policy critique or an academic intervention, but a statutory budgetary assessment delivered to Parliament. It evaluates the hydrogen strategy against the legal requirements of … [continued]
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When Europe’s Economic Institutions Step Away From Hydrogen
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, working jointly with France’s Conseil d’analyse économique, has already stepped away from hydrogen as a broad energy carrier, and that shift sits uneasily alongside a 400 km pressurized segment of Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no suppliers and no customers. The joint guidance from these two … [continued]
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A Year of Oversight & Accountability: Sierra Club FOIAs Have Uncovered Oil & Gas Handouts, Canceled Grants, Opposition to Whitewashing of History, & More
Washington, DC — Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office. Sierra Club lawyers launched a robust Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) accountability effort one year ago, at the start of the second … [continued]
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From Optimistic Models To Empty Pipelines: The Intellectual History Of Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone
Germany’s hydrogen backbone now exists as steel in the ground and pressurized pipe, but the more important infrastructure was laid long before any trench was dug. That infrastructure was intellectual. A long sequence of studies, models, and policy-facing analyses created the impression that large scale hydrogen for energy use was … [continued]
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