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GM Farcaster friends. The final edition of Heatmap News AM for 2025 is out. Writing this newsletter five days a week has taken a lot of discipline and hard work, but it's been worth it every time I meet a reader in person who tells me how much they look forward to getting this in their inbox every morning. Thank you for following along with me in this project, and I look forward to serving you more in the new year.
In the meantime, here's what's in today's issue:
1. Trump halts all construction on offshore wind projects through a national security provision.
2. Federal regulators approve a 217-mile transmission line between Utah and Nevada.
3. Google buys Intersect in a nearly $5 billion deal to supercharge its growing team of energy wonks, including Tyler Norris and Doug Lewin.
4. Hydrostor's 500-megawatt long duration storage system gets the green light in California.
5. South America is the oil patch of 2026, with new drilling in Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina comprising half of world's growth in crude production next year.
PLUS: Researchers at Mississippi State University may have just found an answer to the fungal blight killing Christmas trees.
https://heatmap.news/am/trump-offshore-wind
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