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The U.S. utility industry wants the incoming Trump administration and Republican-led Congress to preserve clean energy and EV tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, Pedro Pizarro, the CEO of utility Edison International said on Saturday. The 2022 IRA contains hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for clean energy and is billed as outgoing President Joe Biden's signature law to combat climate change. President-elect Donald Trump, a climate skeptic, has vowed to rescind it, something that would require support of Congress.

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President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the economic lifeblood and many felt the Biden administration has obstructed efforts to boost the state's diminished production. A debate over drilling on federal lands on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope will likely be revived in the coming months, particularly in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which environmentalists have long sought to protect as one of the country's last wild places.

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Richmond Fed president Tom Barkin said Friday that he expects inflation will continue to drop into next year and hinted at slowing down the pace of rate cuts.

"I think we are going to be looking at rates coming down over the next year along the line the dot-plot said," Goolsbee told Bloomberg TV, referring to Fed projections released in September that depict the rate-path forecasts of the Fed's 19 policymakers as dots on a chart. The median view of that dot plot was for the Fed policy rate to end this year at 4.4%, a quarter of a percentage point below where it is today, and to be 3.4% by the end of next year.

Wood said Musk understands the world is at “the threshold of a convergence among many technologies."