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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

EPA webpage maps out path for data-center developers around air rules

The agency’s Clean Air Act Resource for Data Centers page includes a section on how AI data-center builders may be able to “legally avoid requirements” in the…
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is hosting the crown prince for meetings aimed at strengthening economic and defense ties, including the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump signs executive order curbing state regulation of AI

The order does not issue a federal framework immediately, but includes numerous “tools” to push back on some state laws in the meantime.
President Donald Trump speaks during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OMB lays out requirements for agencies to prevent ‘woke AI’

The seven-page directive comes nearly five months after the White House called for the prevention of “biased” AI models.
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Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., speaks onstage at the 2024 CARE International Women’s Day Dinner at National Museum of the American Indian on March 13, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for CARE)

New bill aims to narrow AI hiring gap between government and industry

Bipartisan, bicameral legislation would overhaul agency and OPM hiring practices for artificial intelligence and tech talent.
A sign on a rural road in Saline, Mich., opposes a planned $7 billion data center on southeast Michigan farm land. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Environmental groups to Congress: Take a timeout on AI data centers

More than 230 orgs urged lawmakers in a letter to enact a nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of data centers amid soaring energy demand and…
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