It’s the weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web:

Wallethub’s Greenest States 2025 (WalletHub)  In order to highlight the greenest states and call out those doing a poor job of caring for the environment, WalletHub compared each of the 50 states based on 28 key metrics.

Trump wants to revive coal. The energy sector has moved on (Newsweek)  President Donald Trump took action Wednesday to expand the coal industry, signing new executive orders aimed at boosting domestic production at a time when the energy sector is shifting to natural gas and renewables … But reviving the coal industry’s heyday, as Trump appears interested in doing, is a herculean task that energy experts say is no longer realistic.

New Yorkers embrace geothermal (HABITAT Magazine)  Even as the Trump administration tries to gut the clean-energy grants and tax breaks of the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, New Yorkers are embracing cutting-edge green technology. Two massive new buildings, both in Brooklyn, will be powered by geothermal energy, also known as ground-source heat pumps.

The new renewable revolution: Why carbon dioxide removal will transform the carbon market (World Economic Forum)  As unprecedented volatility continues to grip the global carbon market, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has emerged as the most reliable basis for carbon credits and an indispensable tool for achieving corporate climate commitments. 

It’s the first U.S. nuclear plant to use AI. Where does Diablo Canyon go from here? (Noozhawk)  Diablo Canyon, California’s sole remaining nuclear power plant, has been left for dead on more than a few occasions over the last decade or so, and is currently slated to begin a lengthy decommissioning process in 2029. Despite its tenuous existence, the San Luis Obispo power plant received some serious computing hardware at the end of last year: eight NVIDIA H100s, which are among the world’s mightiest graphical processors. Their purpose is to power a brand-new artificial intelligence tool designed for the nuclear energy industry.