Wednesday, August 20, 2025

ENERGY

CA Data: Just One Palisades Brush Clearance before Fire

(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in the Pacific Palisades before the deadly Palisades Fire killed 12 Americans and destroyed 6,837 structures, highlighting the state’s slow progress in forest management. This single Cal...

At Least 13 Dead in Texas Floods and More than 20 Children Missing from Girls Summer Camp

(Headline USA) Months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, leaving at least 13 people dead and many more unaccounted for Friday, including about 20 girls attending a summer camp, as search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in fast-moving floodwaters. Desperate pleas peppered...

Over 200 People See UFO in BROAD DAYLIGHT

(Headline USA) More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern U.S. states have now reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky on Thursday, and the nation's space agency now believes it was a remarkably bright meteor known as a bolide. Most sightings of the streak of light and fireball...

Trump Says He’ll Bomb Iran Again If It Restarts Enrichment Program But Doesn’t Think It Will Happen

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Wednesday that he would bomb Iran again if the country restarted its nuclear enrichment program, but he insisted that he doesn’t think that will happen. The president made the comments on Sunday at the NATO summit in The Hague. When asked if Tehran rebuilding...

GOP Plan to Sell More than 3,200 Square Miles of Federal Lands is Found to Violate Senate Rules

(Headline USA) A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling...

To Prevent Blackouts, Trump Administration Keeps Another Aging Power Plant Online Through Summer

(Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electricity shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid. The department's order to the grid operator, PJM...

Iran Says Nuclear Talks With US Have ‘Possibility of Progress’

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The Iranian Foreign Minister expressed optimism that the US and Iran could reach an agreement over his country’s nuclear energy program. Italy hosted the talks with the Omani mediator issuing a less optimistic statement following the talks.  “This round was one of the most professional stages of...

WATCH: Trump Signs Executive Orders to Help Nuclear Industry in U.S.

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square)  – President Donald Trump signed several executive orders on nuclear energy Friday that Trump said would make the U.S. the “real power” in the industry. From the White House: President Trump Signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, May 23, 2025 U.S. Secretary of the Interior...

Witkoff Says US ‘Cannot Allow’ Any Iranian Nuclear Enrichment

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview that aired Sunday that the US “cannot allow” Iran to maintain a civilian nuclear enrichment program, calling the issue a “red line” for the Trump administration. “We have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment. We...

Tornado Storms Kill At Least 23, Including 14 in Kentucky

(Headline USA) Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped over a car on an interstate. In Kentucky, some 14 people were killed by...

Trump Says US and Iran Are Close to a Nuclear Deal But Details Unclear

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Thursday that the US and Iran were close to reaching a nuclear deal, though the details of a potential agreement remain unclear. The president said that the US wouldn’t be “making any nuclear dust in Iran,” referencing his previous threats that he would...

US to Spend $1 Trillion on Nuclear Weapons Over Next Decade

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) According to the Congressional Budget Office, Washington will spend $1 trillion from 2025 to 2034 on modernizing and operating America’s strategic arsenal. “If carried out, DoD’s and DOE’s plans to operate, sustain, and modernize current nuclear forces and purchase new forces would cost a total of...
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