Ben Stockton

New York

Investigative Reporter at Freelance

Investigative Reporter at Centre for Climate Reporting

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Articles

Inside the Small Agency With a Grand Plan for Trump's Global Energy Dominance

3 weeks ago | rollingstone.com | Ben Stockton

April 23, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025.
Inside the small agency with a grand plan for Trump’s global energy dominance – Centre for Climate Reporting

3 weeks ago | climate-reporting.org | Ben Stockton

But that didn’t stop Hardy, who also served as acting director for three years during Trump’s first term, from attending CERAWeek in March. He told Reuters on the sidelines of the conference that the agency was already shifting its focus: “Our approach is looking at all energy projects and not being hamstrung by only renewables as happened in the last four years,” he said.
Inside the Small Agency With a Grand Plan for Trump’s Global Energy Dominance

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Stockton

Among the oil and gas executives and senior government officials from around the world at the major annual energy conference CERAWeek in Houston last month, one Donald Trump appointee cut an unassuming figure. He stayed at a modest $130/night hotel and was photographed in a gray open-collared shirt and a pair of well-worn tan shoes. Little attention has been paid to Thomas Hardy’s appointment as acting director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, or USTDA.
Grab this 1TB Samsung gaming SSD for just $69.99, if you’re quick

4 weeks ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

If you’re running out of storage on your gaming rig, you’ll want to consider this Samsung SSD deal. The Samsung 990 Evo is on sale at Best Buy right now, with the 1TB drive costing just $69.99, saving you $35 on the retailer’s usual price. Samsung has a good reputation in the PC storage world, with a number of its drives making it onto our best gaming SSD shortlist.
A cheaper AMD Radeon RX 9070 gaming GPU is in the works, according to this leak

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

A new budget-friendly AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card is reportedly on the way, according to a new leak. However, it’s unclear if the card is likely to see a launch in the West, as the GRE branding has typically (although not exclusively) been used for cards released in China. Originally standing for Golden Rabbit Edition, in celebration of the Year of the Rabbit in 2023, AMD recently updated the branding to stand for Great Radeon Edition.
The cost of building a new gaming PC is about to skyrocket, say manufacturers

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

The cost of buying parts for your next gaming PC build is about to go up, according to comments made by component manufacturers and custom PC builders. The recently announced import tariffs by the Trump administration look set to hit the price of a number of components, including PC cases and graphics cards. As far as the industry is concerned, tariffs are likely to force consumer prices to rise across the board, no matter whether you’re planning the best gaming PC or a more budget-focused build.
A Steam Deck-like experience for Windows 11 handhelds is coming, leak suggests

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

Microsoft is reportedly making it easier to use Windows 11 on your next handheld gaming PC. A new datamining leak has suggested that Microsoft is gearing up to launch a new full-screen Xbox interface for handheld devices, similar to how Valve’s SteamOS works on the Steam Deck. Given the hints earlier this week about an Asus-made Xbox handheld, it does make sense that Microsoft would want to improve the Windows 11 experience on handhelds.
Grab this fast 1TB Crucial gaming SSD upgrade for just $64.99, while you can

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

If you’re running out of disk space for the latest and greatest games, this Crucial gaming SSD deal might be the answer. The Crucial P310 is at a record-low price on Amazon, costing just $64.99 for 1TB of storage. That’s a huge 34% discount on Amazon’s usual pricing, netting you a speedy PCIe 4.0 drive from a decent manufacturer.
Amazon just made it easier to buy a new Nvidia or AMD GPU, but with a big catch

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

Amazon is locking away stock of some of the newest graphics cards, including the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, behind its Prime subscription service. Several listings for new gaming GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD are now unavailable to buyers without a Prime membership, which has the bonus effect of limiting the ability of scalpers to snap up the most desirable new GPUs, and potentially making it easier for gamers.
This gamer modded an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with an iron and some string, and now it nearly hits 6GHz

1 month ago | pcgamesn.com | Ben Stockton

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has only been out a few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped one Redditor with a mission to improve its performance using a less-than-traditional set of tools. After being delidded to remove the original heatspreader using only a clothes iron and some string, it can now apparently reach “almost” 6GHz when overclocked without burning out. This 16-core AMD monster is already one of the best gaming CPUs you can buy, thanks (in part) to its powerful 3D V-Cache.