Happy Friday. Here's your final Heatmap News AM for the week.
1. The U.S. has lost $34 billion in clean energy projects over the past year, and the tally is only growing.
2. A federal judge rules the Texas law designed to punish critics of fossil fuels unconstitutional.
3. The Energy Department just took a big step toward recycling nuclear waste, with Curio LV, Oklo Inc, SHINE Technologies, Flibe Energy, and Alpha Nur all receiving a combined $19 million in federal support.
4. Amazon just outbid Puget Sound Energy for a giant solar farm in the Pacific Northwest.
5. A new study found that more than 24,000 Americans are dying each year from exposure to air pollution from wildfires.
PLUS: New research found that an invasive South American guava is harming the rainforests and in Madagascar and making conservation of lemurs harder (even though they love the fruit).
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