The Energy Department has repeatedly invoked emergency powers to stop the closure of coal plants around the U.S. and reopen oil pipelines in the West. As court challenges inch forward, utilities and energy companies are dusting off equipment that was headed for the scrap heap, Felicity Barringer writes.

After narrowing her focus from broad climate interests to nuclear energy policy in Stanford's Master's in International Policy, Yukiko Ueda ('26) is joining a Houston-based nuclear energy startup working on commercializing advanced nuclear technology.

AI is contributing to a rising demand for electricity – a pressing sustainability challenge. In this first-person account, Prof. Will Chueh says it can also be part of the solution, by accelerating advances and deployment in energy technologies.