Sentiment skews less negative than the wider beat, at 0% negative against 35% across all 1135 Climate stories in the same window. Department of Energy is most often covered alongside Donald Trump, which appears in 3 of these 10 stories.
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What the coverage shows about Department of Energy
Sentiment skews less negative than the wider beat, at 0% negative against 35% across all 1135 Climate stories in the same window. Department of Energy is most often covered alongside Donald Trump, which appears in 3 of these 10 stories. That works out to roughly 0.4 stories per week across a 165-day span. The busiest single day carried 2. Source depth averages 3.1 original sources per story, versus 3.2 across the same-window beat baseline. The 6.2 average consequence score is below the beat benchmark of 6.4 in the same window. Coverage clusters in market-trends, which accounts for 4 of those 10, with the remainder spread across 3 other categories. We currently track 10 Climate stories that mention Department of Energy, published between February 25, 2026 and August 8, 2026.
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Computed from the 10 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 1135 Climate stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
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