Member Breaks Down Barriers, Brings Others With Her (EW)
A profile highlighting a union member's leadership and advocacy, focusing on mentorship, inclusion, and expanding access to skilled electrical careers.
A profile highlighting a union member's leadership and advocacy, focusing on mentorship, inclusion, and expanding access to skilled electrical careers.
An in-depth look at the renewed role of nuclear energy in meeting America's growing power needs, including workforce implications and long-term infrastructure planning.
Power generation outages are expected to increase significantly on the nation's largest electric grid. The anticipated surge raises concerns about grid reliability and highlights the critical need for skilled electrical workers to maintain infrastructure.
Gas-fired power plant development in the US nearly tripled in 2025, driven primarily by energy-hungry AI data centers. More than a quarter of all global gas power pipeline projects are now in the US, with over a third of newly proposed capacity explicitly linked to data center projects. The boom raises concerns about long-term emissions and threatens to derail climate goals.
Trump administration officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding" - the scientific foundation for most federal climate regulations - over concerns the proposal is too legally weak to withstand court challenges. The finding underpins greenhouse gas rules for vehicles, power plants, and other major pollution sources.
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