“You’re cutting off the next three decades of missions to explore the universe, to learn more about the planets and to learn more about the Earth. It’s a really devastating loss.” @ellanilsen.bsky.social @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

New: Citing need for cost-cutting, NASA is quietly closing buildings at Goddard, giving employees days to pack up highly specialized equipment or risk it getting thrown away, raising alarm. "The things they’re doing don’t actually seem to save money,” one employee said. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

Fill out this form to tell @ellanilsen.bsky.social about how rising electricity prices affect your family! We're reporting on how electricity costs differ around the country and how new infrastructure (including AI datacenters) is affecting the price of power. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/c...

I wrote about a recent phenomenon worrying scientists: entire mountainsides falling into the ocean in coastal Alaska, triggering monster tsunami waves. It's happened 3 times in the last decade, all close to retreating glaciers. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

I love this piece by @ellanilsen.bsky.social about a phenomena I previously had never heard of: Whole-ass mountainsides sliding into the ocean in Alaska, causing tsunamis that could pulverize cruise ships. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

One of the biggest tsunami waves on record hit an Alaskan fjord this summer, caused by a massive landslide falling into the ocean near a melting glacier. No one was hurt, despite a Nat Geo cruise ship being 15 miles away, but scientists are anxious it could happen again. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

"The deal with Broadcom would use as much power as 8 million US households" www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

New: Energy Sec. Chris Wright suggested the Trump admin is updating past National Climate Assessments.“We’re reviewing them, and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” he said. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)

NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

I wrote about US new power plant additions in the first half of the year, and what's on tap between now and 2030. If I had to some this up in three words, they'd be: solar, batteries, Texas. insideclimatenews.org/news/3107202...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

New: The Trump admin commissioned a new report on climate science in conjunction with its proposed endangerment finding repeal, per Energy Sec. Wright. DOE recently hired 3 researchers who have questioned & rejected the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/c...

“[Children's] small bodies are shutting down — they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing." Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

If “it is the artist’s job to make the revolution, irresistible,” I went looking for the artists most devoted to Earth repair and the clean energy revolution. See how they are changing live music and discover what gives them hope in these dark days Sunday night on CNN.

Confirming @maxinejoselow.bsky.social 's scoop: DOE has hired 3 prominent climate contrarian's, and mainstream climate scientists are worried about what's next... W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/c...

Really important reporting by @afreedma.bsky.social and CNN's Investigates team.

2/2 Projects that start construction between 1 year of bill enactment and end of 2027 must be placed in service by end of 2027. Big picture: still a narrow window for clean energy developers, but more breathing room.

Big wind/solar changes in final Senate bill: - no excise tax on wind/solar - bill sets a commence construction deadline for wind/solar projects that start within a year of bill enactment. Those projects get full tech-neutral credit for 1 year, and are spared the 2027 placed in service deadline 1/2

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

NEW: Trump admin seeks to defund US network of labs that monitor CO2 levels in the atmosphere, including Mauna Loa, home to the famous "Keeling Curve." The moves would also affect weather forecasting centers. www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

We're out with an interactive on how Trump's bill would raise energy prices in every state in the continental US over the next decade. Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas could see up to 18% higher energy costs by 2035 if Trump’s bill passes. w/ @thatsoph.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...

Made gfx/tool based on modelling from @energyinnovation.org that shows that the GOP tax and spending bill will result in larger energy bills for many Americans compared with a scenario where the bill does not pass. Thanks to EI & Ella who worked on me with this: www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...

NEW: Republicans killing wind/solar/EV tax credits means annual energy costs will be higher in *every state* in the continental US than they would have if the tax credits stay intact, per @energyinnovation.org data. Red states like SC, OK and TX will be hit hardest. www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...

Excellent article with very cool infographic from some of our modeling, courtesy of @cnn.com's @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...

Two new polls from KFF and Washington Post-Ipsos out today both finding negative views of the GOP budget bill: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

EPA has told staff overseeing the industrialized Midwest to stop enforcing pollution violations against fossil fuel companies, Rene Marsh & @ellanilsen.bsky.social report: www.cnn.com/politics/epa...

New: The EPA has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest — a region plagued by a legacy of pollution — to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, multiple sources told CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/epa...

Meager snowmelt amid high temperatures in the Colorado River Basin. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dangerously low: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

We're expecting another above-average hurricane year as NOAA and FEMA have been hollowed out -- losing thousands of experts and staff. “There almost certainly will be less data for the models," one NOAA staffer said. w/ @afreedma.bsky.social and Gabe Cohen. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/w...

Equinor says it's losing $50 million a week after the Trump admin stopped the NY Empire wind project, which was fully permitted. The executive's comments here are notable

New: Trump officials planning to shutter well-known Energy Star program as part of larger EPA staff reorg. The program has been going since 1992 and its “the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in America,” per its website. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/c...

A stat that blew my mind: once it is built, the inside of the Commonwealth Fusion Systems tokamak will simultaneously be the hottest and coldest place in our solar system. My latest on fusion. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/c...

But, boy, is it stark. Basically anything that doesn't carry a weapon is getting carved up. And we haven't even looked at other agencies. - Army Corps of Engineers down 15% - EPA down 55% - NASA down 24% - SBA down 33% - Nation Science Foundation down 56%

Really important story from @afreedma.bsky.social: 30 National Weather Service forecast offices have lost their meteorologist-in-charge, aka the senior-most meteorologist that works with local media and emergency managers during hurricanes/tornadoes/other extreme weather. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

Pakistan's solar boom is a grassroots story; almost none of it is from big solar farms. “There is no policy push that is driving this; this is essentially people-led and market driven.” Fascinating story by @laurapaddison.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

What happens when sun power gets SO CHEAP that places with 1/60th of US per capita GDP don't need subsidies to afford it? Pakistan.

Monique Lockett, a 25-year-veteran of the Social Security Administration, was five years from retirement when she died on the job. Her sister thinks stress from cuts to federal programs and the workforce may have been a factor: www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/p...

Biden's climate law has spurred lots of job growth in Republican districts. Those jobs could get wiped out if the GOP and Trump kill clean energy tax credits. www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

The Trump admin intends to eliminate the research arm of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, close all weather & climate labs & eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, per internal documents obtained by CNN @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

New: These red districts gained the most jobs from Biden's clean energy law, and they could lose the most if Republicans kill it. www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

💯 May I present the post-IRA manufacturing boom -- in mostly red states, no less! www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/c...

One source told me "it makes zero sense" for Trump admin to cut Cleveland-Cliffs' federal grant to modernize its OH and PA steel plants. "They’ve been quite supportive of Trump’s tariffs. This really reads like a bunch of 24-year-olds at DOGE are working through this." www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/c...

This project was supposed to create 170 permanent jobs & 1,200 temporary construction jobs. “Anytime you can upgrade a facility — getting environmentally friendlier — that extends the life of the mill,” said Cliffs union president Shawn Coffey. “It’s for the future of my kids, grandkids.”

New: The Trump Energy Dept plans to terminate $575 million Biden-era grants to upgrade Cleveland-Cliffs coal blast furnaces, per internal documents. One of the factories whose grant is at risk is in JD Vance's hometown. “There’s no political logic to it,” a source said. www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/c...

Top forecasters worry the Trump staff/budget cuts at the National Weather Service could set back forecasting capabilities by a decade -- erasing the significant improvements in accuracy and lead time that save lives. www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/w...

Wrote about the state-level lenders getting caught up in the EPA legal fight over $20 billion in frozen funding. Projects in limbo include solar power for churches, helping small independent grocery stores upgrade aging refrigeration systems -- several in red states. www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/c...