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How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and President Donald Trump during the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images

At an AI and fossil fuel lovefest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, President Donald Trump – flanked by cabinet members and executives

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from major tech and energy giants like Google and ExxonMobil – said that “the most important man of the day” was Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin. “He’s gonna get you a permit for the largest electric producing plant in the world in about a week, would you say?” Trump said to chuckles in the audience. Later that week, the Trump administration exempted coal-fired power plants, facilities that make chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing, and certain other industrial sites from Biden-era a …
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