Dan McCue

<p>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has a “chance to do a great job” in his new role, and vowed to help him achieve his goal of making New York a more affordable place to live. In fact, so cordial was the much-anticipated meeting of the […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Chicago-based developer Invenergy is ending its effort to build a 2.4 GW wind farm off the coast of New Jersey, scuttling what had been one of the largest offshore wind projects planned for the East Coast. The end of the project, called Leading Light Wind, was disclosed in a Nov. 7 filing to […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Regular readers of The Well News will know that from time to time we find ourselves reporting on the legacy of Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. It’s an association, we must admit, that […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Key economic data for October — namely the federal jobs and inflation reports for the period — may never be compiled and released as a result of the record-breaking government shutdown that was poised to end Wednesday night. In a briefing with reporters Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Despite the federal government remaining in limbo on Thursday, a group of House Democrats called on their colleagues to restore the Biden-era renewable energy tax incentives set aside last summer with the passage of the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Introduced by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., the top Democratic on the House Ways and […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it plans to streamline the approval process for cheaper, “biosimilar” alternatives to biologic drugs in an effort to reduce health care costs for consumers. As part of the effort, unveiled during an afternoon press conference at the HHS Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the FDA published […]</p>

<p>JUNO BEACH, Fla. — NextEra Energy, the world’s largest electric utility, has agreed to restart a shuttered nuclear power plant in Iowa to provide Google with energy it needs to drive its artificial intelligence data centers. The Duane Arnold Energy Center, located about eight miles northwest of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was closed in 2020. As […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to commence work on a proposed rule intended to rapidly accelerate the interconnection of data centers and other large loads. Wright’s preferred rule would allow customers to file joint, colocated loans and generation interconnection requests. It would also, he said, significantly […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Four weeks into the federal government shutdown, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist widely expected to be elected the next mayor of New York City, is becoming an obsession for Republicans. “There is no longer a place for centrists and moderates in the Democratic Party,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declared from the podium […]</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled plans to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge. The announcement was made during an “Alaska Day” celebration at the Interior Department attended by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Rep. Nick Begich, and Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. In addition […]</p>