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TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
8 April 2024 at 14:47
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants.

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A new Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plant under construction in Phoenix, Ariz., in December 2022.

Royalties for Drilling on Public Lands to Increase

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Coral Davenport
12 April 2024 at 15:27
For the first time since 1920, the government has raised the rates that companies pay. The fossil fuel industry says it will hurt the economy.

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Pumpjacks operate at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif.

Biden Administration Awards Samsun $6.4 Billion for Chip Production

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By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
15 April 2024 at 11:12
The federal grants will support Samsung’s new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

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The money will help Samsung to upgrade a plant under construction in Taylor, Texas.

Micron Will Receive $6.1 Billion to Build Semiconductor Plants

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By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
18 April 2024 at 13:59
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.

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Micron officials have said the investment is expected to create roughly 50,000 jobs, including about 9,000 direct positions at its plants.

Land Under B.L.M. Management to Get New Protections

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Catrin Einhorn
18 April 2024 at 14:32
The measure elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating new leases for the restoration of degraded areas.

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021. She said the new rule announced on Thursday β€œhelps restore balance to our public lands.”

Biden’s New Power Plant Rules: 5 Things to Know

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman
25 April 2024 at 14:00
The administration issued a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming.

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Republican-led states and the coal industry are all but certain to challenge the rules in court.

Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Ivan Penn
25 April 2024 at 13:57
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.

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REC Silicon is preparing to fulfill its first shipment of polysilicon granules, which are used in the production of solar panels, at its factory in Moses Lake, Wash.

Biden Delays Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Christina Jewett and Noah Weiland
26 April 2024 at 19:55
The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.

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Public health groups supporting the ban of menthol cigarettes cited years of data suggesting that the cigarettes, long marketed to African American smokers, make it more palatable to start smoking and more difficult to stop.

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Cures

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Ted Alcorn
28 April 2024 at 05:00
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.

Β© Adria Malcolm for The New York Times

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a gastroenterologist in Albuquerque, founded Project ECHO in the early 2000s to connect primary care doctors in sparsely populated areas with specialists. ECHO’s New Mexico hepatitis C program has provided treatment for more than 10,000 patients.

U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing

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By: Catrin Einhorn
30 April 2024 at 14:48
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.

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The primary driver of biodiversity declines in the ocean, according to researchers, is overfishing.

How To Know When a Good Dog Has Gone Bad

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Emily Anthes
5 May 2024 at 20:15
Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.

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President Biden’s dog, Commander, a German shepherd, being walked outside the West Wing of the White House last year.

A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: David E. Sanger
6 May 2024 at 20:32
The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a β€œglobal internet” connecting the world has been shattered.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. He has described an increasingly zero-sum competition, in which countries will be forced to choose between signing up for a Western-dominated β€œstack” of technologies or a Chinese-dominated one.

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
7 May 2024 at 16:03
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

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TikTok’s office in Culver City, Calif. The company has said a new U.S. law requiring its sale is essentially a ban.

Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Erica L. Green
8 May 2024 at 16:27
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His β€œInvesting in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Coral Davenport
9 May 2024 at 05:06
Asbestos, β€œforever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning them out.

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President Biden giving an Earth Day speech inside Prince William Forest Park in Virginia, last month.

U.S. Awards $120 Million to Polar Semiconductor to Expand Chip Facility

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo
13 May 2024 at 05:01
The grant is the latest federal award in a series stemming from the CHIPS and Science Act meant to ramp up domestic production of vital semiconductors.

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The federal award will go toward a project to expand the Polar Semiconductor facility in Bloomington, Minn.

New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could Boost Wind and Solar Power

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Brad Plumer
13 May 2024 at 18:22
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way U.S. power lines are planned and funded.

Β© Renaud Philippe for The New York Times

A transmission line construction project near Bingham, Maine, in 2022.

Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

βœ‡NYT: Technology
By: Michael Forsythe and Gabriel J.X. Dance
13 May 2024 at 21:23
An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon.

Β© Stephen Speranza for The New York Times

The bitcoin mine in Cheyenne, Wyo., has been ordered to cease operations immediately.
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