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Justine Calma

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

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    Arizona’s lifeline for chip manufacturing is drying up

    Water from the Colorado River is getting scarce — and more expensive for everyone.

    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    The iPhone Duo is manufactured with 60 percent renewable electricity.

    The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are made with 50 percent renewables. Apple Watch, which Apple has had to stop describing as carbon neutral, reaches 100 percent renewable electricity. The company has a 2030 target for its suppliers to use “100 percent clean energy” for Apple production.

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    Justine Calma
    The Trump administration is giving a Google-backed nuclear power plant a $1.9 billion loan.

    It’s to finance the restart of an Iowa plant that’s been closed since 2020. Last year, Google announced a partnership with NextEra Energy to reopen the site to help power the company’s AI data centers. But you won’t see that tidbit in the Energy Department’s press release today.

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    Justine Calma
    A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to curb CA clean air standards.

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has worked to send tailpipe pollution policies to Congress to repeal. US District Judge Beryl Howell accused the EPA of “Orwellian doublethink.”