The Latest from Tik Root

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  Clean energy supply chain

  The year the US doubled down on critical minerals

  Trump took unusual steps in 2025 to strengthen American control over a supply chain crucial to many industries — and to the clean energy transition.

  By Tik Root, Anita Hofschneider, Rebecca Egan McCarthy  .  26 December 2025

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  Electrification

  Americans like home electrification — but also still love their gas stoves

  Less than one-third of Americans want a fully electric home. That number jumps to 60 percent if they can keep cooking with gas.

  By Tik Root  .  11 December 2023

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  EV charging

  Are EV chargers a cybersecurity risk?

  Hackers have already tampered with the machines, so far in ways that are relatively innocuous. But experts warn it could get much worse.

  By Tik Root  .  17 July 2023