Narrator: by worthless, he means extremely cheap.

Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

Someone should tell Chris Wright about how we dealt with asbestos @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A lot needs to happen right on #battery supply chain diversification for #energystorage wave to materialize 🔌💡

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name theonion.com/epa-to-...

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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

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Dear All Journalists, You don’t have to credit the line “Tariffs will hit American consumers” to “economists say”. Thanks

‘Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”…would kill federal support for solar and wind power, undoing President Biden’s historic climate law and punishing Americans with deadlier air, more lethal heat waves and higher electric bills.’ Via @sammyroth.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

NEW: At least one House Freedom Caucus member is looking for Trump to "deal with" IRA tax credits before they vote yes on the megabill thanks for putting up with and refining my attempts at politics reporting @jael.bsky.social

REPEAT Project just completed our rapid analysis of the impacts of the Senate-passed version of the One Big "Beautiful" Bill (OBBB), which the House is considering now, on the US energy sector and emissions. Still working up full report, but here is a sneak peak... 🔌💡 🧵

Narrative 1: China is dumping cheap solar panels onto the world by unfairly subsidizing its solar industry. Narrative 2: US, Russia, Saudi are dumping cheap oil and gas onto the world by unfairly subsidizing production and transport. Both can be defended with facts. Which one do you hear more?

Republicans finally found a way to bring down costs. All it took was magically declaring expensive things to be free. At least, that’s the lesson of OBBB, whose Senate passage today required reinventing the laws of accounting. A look at the big fat warning sign the GOP just gave to the bond market:

“This is the modern version of book burning.”

Sorry small correction - the solar/wind excise tax is out. No word yet on phase-outs of existing credits.

In Heatmap, @azevin.bsky.social & I explain how the web of "foreign entity" rules in the GOP budget bill is certain to backfire. It's an "impossible bind" where the U.S. companies working the *hardest* to onshore supply chains are penalized the *most*. Their tech will end up right back in China.

One vote tonight took 43 minutes — not a blistering pace. Looks like Rs may be slow-walking while they keep working on the bill.

The GOP Senate tax bill is wrecking ball for the power grid @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The bill the Senate is voting on right now would reduce US power generation through 2035 by 300GW, raise wholesale & retail power prices, increase household energy costs, reduce national GDP, & kill 100s of 1000s of jobs. I mean, this isn't "public grocery store" bad, but it's pretty bad!

I couldn't make it through this story yesterday, but everyone needs to read it.

“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.” First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.

Seeing a lot of discussion about the birthright citizenship case: the very issue is upsetting, the consequences (even at this preliminary stage) could be dire. But I think the truly alarming case from Friday is Mahmoud v Taylor, the “LGBTQ opt-out” case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

EXCLUSIVE @npr.org: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Those market expectations are really frightening because they signal the kind of economic weakness that precisely cuts against new investment. To Sharon's point, I think that sets up future underinvestment-related supply shocks (big point in electricity discourse today re the new OBBB text)

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

Murkowski votes aye!

JD Vance is likely going to have to break the tie on this procedural vote to advance Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." That should tell you where the GOP is on this politically. To pass the only real legislation Trump has proposed, Vance needs to come the rescue. He can't do that in the House.

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

Vote down the blackout bill

Senate Republicans stepped up their attacks on solar and wind energy projects by quietly adding a provision to their megabill that would penalize future developments with a new tax.

Basically overnight, “foreign entity” restrictions are at the core of all U.S. energy policy. Not cost, not global competitiveness, not even GHG emissions. Entire industries will live and die based on untested and poorly defined concepts of foreign “assistance.” Absolute madness.

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

I read Trump + Senate Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" so you don't have to. It came out at *midnight* & we're still getting numbers in from Congress's bookkeepers. Early returns: Nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. Happy Saturday. Follow for more. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The most intense part of this bill is a new excise tax on wind and solar projects above FEOC content threshholds (!!!) Given the sprawling nature of FEOC, that might pull in all sorts of projects with unmanageable new tax liability Tax the sun, tax the wind eh #energysky

Quick takes for #EnergyStorage in the Senate's bill: * ITC unchanged, available to 2030s * FEOC content test stricter, now prohibitive of projects w/ FEOC-linked cells from 2026 * FEOC remains onerous and likely unfinanceable Unless FEOC is fixed, is an effective phase out at end of 2025 #energysky

Senate Republicans dropped a nearly 1,000-page “Big Beautiful Bill” in the DEAD OF THE NIGHT. And they want to vote on it TODAY. Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.

You can use this framing to guess what any given result will be, and you’ll almost always be right. But I do wonder: what do the 6 justices tell themselves about what they’re doing, and why?

Based on timelines it seems it does. This means the latest Senate text is actually WORSE than the House text by being punitive in 2028+.

FULL TEXT: Senate Republicans just released their 940-page reconciliation bill. www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Many of the health care provisions in the Senate tax bill have been struck by the parliamentarian, including provider taxes and penalizing states that provide insurance coverage to unauthorized immigrants. Might actually make it easier to pass the overall package.

Too soon!

Model Y Owner's manual still only lists Autopilot/Full Self-Driving (Supervised) -- www.tesla.com/ownersmanual... when they update THAT to having FSD Unsupervised.... I'll make note.

‘Throwing us off a cliff': Megabill could derail hundreds of planned clean energy projects www.politico.com/news/2025/06... POLITICO analysis: 794 planned clean electricity generation facilities — 3/4 in GOP districts — that could lose subsidies under the House bill. The Senate is debating changes.

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

The administration’s escalating attack on the university is clumsily executed, disdainful of due process and inimical to American principles of free speech, free association and free inquiry, the Editorial Board writes. "It is also a strategic mistake." wapo.st/43TJiZf

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.