DEP’s Initial Findings In First Report On Sampling Landfill Leachate For Radioactive Radium-- 'No Significant Risk To Human Health’ Based On Concerns About Radioactive Materials In Oil/Gas Drilling Wastes; ‘Limited’ Data Means More Sampling Needed [PaEN] tinyurl.com/39v46mfk

KDKA: Rising Fuel, Fertilizer Prices Add To Tariffs And A Growing List Of Hardships For PA Farmers ​​ www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Spotlight PA: Pennsylvania’s A.I. Data Center Boom, By The Numbers: 53 Data Center Proposals; State Could Lose $2 Billion In Tax Money; 800% Increase In PJM Power Costs www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03...

1 Which states have the most grid batteries? www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Spoke with @6abc.bsky.social about data center noise pollution. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social 6abc.com/post/vinelan...

LehghValleyLive.com: New Jersey Promoting Community Solar Energy Projects That Offer Steep Cuts To Electric Bills [Why Not PA?} www.lehighvalleylive.com/business/202...

…states w/highest share of natural gas generation saw greatest increases in retail electricity prices through 2022–2023, followed by largest price decreases…substantial buildout in new gas plants while increases in LNG export capacity will further link domestic prices to higher global prices’

TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. Gas disruption = Chip disruption

I spoke with @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social about the impact of the illegal and unconstitutional war in Iran on gasoline prices. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

This fossil fuel company is drilling for something new: Carbon-free heat four miles beneath the Earth that could power a geothermal plant. From @cprnews.bsky.social:

Electrification of transportation is a national security and economic resilience strategy, which would work well for this exact scenario we are in right now.

The Trump administration’s first oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, according to the US Interior Department, indicating tepid interest from drillers in that region

I spoke with BBC about today's PR stunt. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social bbc.com/news/article...

To bring the TL;DR up front: there is no particular evidence that an increasing share of wind + PV generation leads to higher prices, and the US states with the largest increase in wind + PV experienced electricity price reductions. 🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I regret my decision to watch the White House / Big Tech press conference about their "ratepayer protection pledge." The highlight was when he went off-script and admitted that this is all about providing "PR help" to Big Tech companies.

Burning the furniture to heat the house is actually unconstitutional in PA, though the state Supreme Court ruling has been ignored by the last 2 governors and the general assembly. See www.pedf.org/uploads/1/9/...

Spoke to @inquirer.com about energy price impacts of the (illegal, unconstitutional) war in Iran. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...

Mentioned here. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social talkbusiness.net/2026/03/riff...

WESA - Rachel McDevitt: $2 Million Grant To Help Business Nonprofit Team PA Study Electric Grid Updates As A.I. Data Center Demand Grows www.wesa.fm/environment-...

AP: Shrinking North American Bird Population Is Getting Worse Faster; Experts Blame Intensive Agriculture, Climate Warming apnews.com/article/bird...

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role." Gift link

Canary Media: Pittsburgh Region Form Energy To Power Google A.I. Data Center In Minnesota [Why Don’t We Consider These In PA?] www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

I'm quoted in this @politico.com piece. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social Underdog Democrats lean into data center concerns politi.co/4tTnJEb

Spoke to @eenews.bsky.social/@politico.com about the political implications of data centers. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/mid...

Clean energy is ready—but it’s stuck in line. Projects wait years in the interconnection queue, even as demand from AI and data centers surges. That bottleneck risks fossil lock-in and higher costs. If we want cheaper, cleaner power, we need to fix the backlog: hboushey.substack.com/p/stuck-in-l...

Ditto PJM, and maybe even some governors and state legislatures.

Your periodic reminder that markets don’t want to build the things the Trump administration is pushing. That’s a good thing for the planet. And someday, we will again have a WH who isn’t afraid of competitive markets.

A new Illinois bill aims to reduce the climate and affordability harms of the data center boom.

Bravo, Philly!

New: Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a sales tax exemption for data centers in 2021. Its exact cost is unknown, but new estimates released by the Shapiro administration this month say it will have cost the commonwealth $2 billion by 2031. W/ @katehuangpu.bsky.social

Make Neurotoxins Great Again. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

Utility Dive: American Council For An Energy-Efficient Economy Says Energy Efficiency, Demand Flexibility Can Meet Growing Data Center Loads - And Do It Cheaper Than Gas Which Is 2 to 5 Times More Expensive tinyurl.com/ympzkj5w

TL;DR AI isn’t just a new load. It’s a new grid participant. • Training hits transmission • Inference hits distribution • Hybrid on-site power becomes standard The future grid must be fast, flexible, local, and interactive — or it breaks. Utilities have to change their culture.

BREAKING: federal judge orders the Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House. The opinion opens with “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed…” With @fallonroth.bsky.social

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Ramping up LNG exports = ramping up domestic enegy prices. Especially so in gas-dependent PJM. www.canarymedia.com/articles/liq...

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

I spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about @upenn.edu's supercomputer and data centers. @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social www.thedp.com/article/2026...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Today, Administrator Zeldin took a chainsaw to the Endangerment Finding, undoing this long-standing, science-based finding on bogus grounds at the expense of our health.

"...the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be. It’s a rejection of fact that had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties..." Gift link.

They can hide, censor, and deny #climate change science but that doesn't change the #science. They can try to repeal the #Endangerment Finding but that doesn't change the danger. Reality will always win and history will never forget what they're doing and who is doing it.

You can repeal an endangerment finding. You can’t repeal the endangerment.