Biden administration announces ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid A worker repairs a utility pole during a power outage after Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021. | Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Biden administration announced $3.46 billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the gr…

U.S. Sen. Warren Leads Lawmakers to Push Administration on Crypto-Backed Terrorism U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led more than a hundred lawmakers in demanding top officials share their plans for heading off crypto-financed terrorism.

Biden Administration Seeks Emergency Aid Package for Both Israel and Ukraine Aid to Ukraine lapsed last month amid Republican resistance, while aid for Israel in its war with Hamas has drawn bipartisan support in recent days.

Biden administration doles out $7 billion for hydrogen hubs Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, April 3rd, 2023. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the US. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune via Getty ImagesThe Biden administration will funnel $7 billion into seven differen…

Biden Administration Awards $7 Billion for 7 Hydrogen Hubs Across the U.S. Clean hydrogen could help fight climate change, but it barely exists today. Now the administration wants to build an entire industry from scratch.

Biden Administration Waives Laws to Allow Expansion of Border Wall The government cited the high numbers of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley in justifying the decision to waive a host of regulations.

Adam Phillips, former Biden Administration lead at USAID, joins Interfaith America as Chief Strategy Officer Interfaith America The post Adam Phillips, former Biden Administration lead at USAID, joins Interfaith America as Chief Strategy Officer appeared first on Religion News Service.

Biden Administration to Offer Fewest Offshore Oil and Gas Leases in History A new plan to sell offshore drilling rights will be limited to three spots, all in the Gulf of Mexico.

Biden Administration Says Israelis Can Travel to U.S. Without a Visa The U.S. allowed Israel into its visa-waiver program after a summer test run that gave U.S. citizens, including Palestinian Americans, visa-less entry into Israel.

Biden Administration Plans to Bring Back ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules The head of the Federal Communications Commission said the government needed to protect open access to the “essential infrastructure of modern life.”

Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit. The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.

The Biden Administration Wants To Spend $100 Million To Fix The Country’s Broken EV Chargers EV charging in this country still sucks. From too much tech to simply being unreliable, there’s still no practical incentive to buy an EV. No matter how many tax discounts the government can offer, no one wants a car that they can’t charge because all their local infrastructure is broken. Thankfully, many of those… Read more…

The Biden administration approves $100 million to fix the nation’s broken EV chargers Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The VergeEV owners fed up with the often broken, discombobulated charging experience in the US are about to get a lifeline from the federal government. The US Department of Transportation is authorizing $100 million to “repair and replace existing but non-operational, electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.” The…

Why Is the Biden Administration Working So Hard on a Saudi-Israel Deal? Washington is pushing for ties between the two countries, with a promise of security guarantees for Riyadh.

Microsoft is the first customer for the Biden administration’s carbon removal hubs Heirloom’s technology filters CO2 out of the air. | Image: HeirloomMicrosoft is helping to fund one of the US’s first hubs for pulling planet-heating carbon dioxide out of the air. It struck a deal with California-based startup Heirloom, which says it will capture up to 315,000 metric tons of CO2 for Microsoft over the next decade or so. The pa…

Biden Administration Expected to Cancel Drilling Leases in Alaskan Wildlife Refuge The oil and gas rights had been sold to the state’s economic development agency under the Trump administration.

Biden Administration Proposes Expanding Background Checks on Gun Sales The proposed rules are part of President Biden’s piecemeal efforts to enact a key policy goal, universal background checks, which has been repeatedly stymied by congressional Republicans.

Biden Administration Makes U-Turn On Right To Repair Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told automakers to ignore the Massachusetts Data Access Law, mandating open access to vehicle data. The federal agency claimed that open data cars could allow an avenue for hackers to break into vehicle control systems. NHTSA has now shifted… Read more…

The Biden administration urges the Supreme Court to take up content moderation cases Image: Getty ImagesThe Biden administration has requested the US Supreme Court review Florida and Texas laws restricting how social media companies like Facebook moderate the content users post on their platforms. In briefs filed on Monday, the US solicitor general urged the court to take up a pair of lawsuits led by the tech trade group NetChoi…

Controversial carbon removal technology just got $1.2 billion from the Biden administration Shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony at the Occidental Petroleum and 1PointFive Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Ector County, Texas, on Friday, April 28th, 2023.  | Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Department of Energy chose the first two locations for “hubs” it envisions for industrial plants that suck plane…