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Natural Gas Could Get Priority Over Renewable Energy in Largest U.S. Grid

Federal regulators approved a proposal from the nation’s largest grid operator that will give primacy to 50 new power plants, a decision to help meet the country’s growing electricity demand.

Β© Tristan Spinski for The New York Times

A natural gas power plant in Westbrook, Maine. Utilities and grid operators in recent months have shifted from renewable energy and toward natural gas generations.

Chris Wright Is Confirmed as Secretary of Energy

The former fracking executive said in confirmation hearings that his top priority would be to β€œunleash” American energy production.

Β© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

Chris Wright, in his Senate hearing, also tried to reassure Democrats that he believed climate change was a β€œglobal challenge that we need to solve.”
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