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Energy Secretary Rick Perry downplayed the likelihood that his department would declare a grid emergency and direct financial support to coal and nuclear power plants owned by FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.
U.S. officials are reviving concerns about the security of a vital component of the electric grid: the large transformers that power cities and regions. Are those security concerns valid or overhyped?
By Blake Sobczak and Peter Behr in Energywire
Plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have underestimated the effects of climate change, one arm of the Interior Department is warning another.
By Adam Aton in Climatewire
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U.S. officials are reviving concerns about the security of a vital component of the electric grid: the large transformers that power cities and regions. Are those security concerns valid or overhyped?
By Blake Sobczak and Peter Behr in Energywire
Plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have underestimated the effects of climate change, one arm of the Interior Department is warning another.
By Adam Aton in Climatewire