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US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The US has recently launched a new battery production line, which is expected to help researchers develop safer and cheaper energy storage technologies for the electric grid. PNNL's new prismatic cell line will allow researchers and industry partners to create, test and demonstrate real-world prismatic cells at an industrially relevant scale. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  The new line is housed at the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a 93,000-square-foot research facility. It is run by...

Trump Orders Review Related To Climate Guidance For Federal Judges Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has ordered federal officials to review conduct related to climate guidance included in a scientific reference manual for federal judges, which he described as politically biased and based on discredited science. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on July 6, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images "These Manuals have been totally discredited," Trump said in a June 19 post on Truth Social. He was referring to a February decision by the...

EU Opens Door For Canada To Become Bloc's First-Ever "Associate Member" Thanks to how mean President Trump has been, Canada could become the first-ever "associate member" of the European Union under a proposal unveiled Wednesday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as Ottawa looks to reduce its economic dependence on the United States. Speaking during her annual State of the Union address in Strasbourg, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the front row as the first foreign head of government ever to attend the speech, von der Leyen...