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September 20264

U.S. Energy Information Administration EIA estimates that this summer in the Lower 48 states, the extra electricity from solar was about twice the extra from wind NOAA Fisheries A sea turtle laid eggs on a California beach. No one had ever recorded that on the U.S. West Coast U.S. Energy Information Administration New England made 59% more wind power than a year before. Is that the biggest number in the story? U.S. Energy Information Administration Most of Texas just had its busiest week ever for electricity

August 20262

U.S. Energy Information Administration The fuel in an American reactor mostly comes from somewhere else U.S. Energy Information Administration In the Permian, oil wells stopped going straight down and started going sideways

July 20262

NASA Curiosity found a field of honeycombs on Mars — and nobody is sure why U.S. Energy Information Administration The world's biggest oil producer is… the United States

June 20265

U.S. Energy Information Administration Wood, then coal, then oil: 250 years of American energy U.S. Energy Information Administration The state where electricity demand now goes down at lunchtime U.S. Energy Information Administration America's biggest wind farm is about to switch on — and it's not where you'd guess NOAA El Niño is back — and one patch of ocean is why NOAA New maps that are 900 times sharper

April 20262

U.S. Energy Information Administration Snow is a battery — and this year the West's was nearly empty U.S. Energy Information Administration Americans drove more miles — and used less gasoline

March 20261

U.S. Energy Information Administration Wind and solar hit a record — from almost nothing in 20 years
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