This is not just fringe reporting. The WSJ is saying this--it's a story of substance. None of his happened accidentally. Somebody is rotten to the core. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Recharging the batteries this week.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The Clean Energy Transition institute is looking for its next Executive Director, following the decision by rhe founding ED, Eileen V Quigley, to step away from that role. @cetransition.bsky.social is focused on accelerating an equitable transition to Clean Energy in the NW. Great opportunity

Pure cynicism and greed in service of climate denial, clean energy obstruction, and soaking US taxpayers.

The deep, deep stench of corruption.

Just to demonstrate once and for all that the Breakthrough Institute is a climate-denying, pro-fossil/nuc group, here is their "Amicus Brief," authored by Nordhaus & Trembath, supporting Trump's Executive Orders Unleashing Fossil Fuels www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/against-cl...

BREAKING: Award-winning journalist Scott MacFarlane is joining MeidasTouch as our Chief Washington Correspondent. This is a major expansion of our enterprise and investigative reporting in D.C.

Sarcasm only works when it is not believable... 🤷‍♂️

Palantir keeps working hard to convince us that they really are comic book super villains

CATL, BYD and Sungrow add $70bn in market value "Neil Beveridge, who leads Bernstein’s energy research, expects China, the world’s biggest oil importer, to double down on its plan to “electrify everything”." www.ft.com/content/b122...

"Unlike during previous oil shocks, renewable power is now competitive with fossil fuels in many places. More than 90% of new renewable power projects worldwide in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency."

The main goal of the war is to reverse the main consequence of the war. Such strategists.

Donald Trump wants to spend $1 billion of your tax dollars to drive up your power bill, by killing new energy projects. Let that sink in.

Let's hope that the Iran war and the massive increase in oil cost finally is a wake up call for automakers www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nice to see the @nytimes.com profiling @alexsteffen.bsky.social's courses in personal climate resilience. With impacts accelerating and our federal govt stuck firmly in denial, more people are looking prepared for future shocks. 1/

There is a reverse correlation between the climate records being broken on a daily basis and the increasingly strident cries coming from actual climate scientists and the Trump Admin's eagerness to promote outright denial with fossil fuel apologists. 1/

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

Come for good takes on Illinois primaries and Jon Ossoff nailing the "moral rot" at the heart of the Republican Party, and stay for the wild shit show brewing between Cornyn and Paxton in Texas. Bring the popcorn. @waytowinus.bsky.social @jenancona.bsky.social @danancona.bsky.social

Here are federal employee responses, sorted by dept/agency, to the question about whether their organization's political leaders "maintain high standards of integrity." Results are abysmal. In no agency do even 20% of respondents say their top leaders have integrity

THERE. IS. NO. BOTTOM.

I think it's an exaggeration to say that MAGA is developing a crush on solar, but they are softening on the sun while they maintain their bosses' hate for wind energy. Good reporting from @hsouvainehorn.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/post/207978/...

As Trump's gang does everything possible to throttle clean energy in the US, China continues to dominate global production. If we had set out with a strategy to gift China leadership in 21st Century technology, it's hard to think what else we would have done differently. @canarymedia.com

Accurate thread on the under acknowledged reality of the US economy and politics. Our current regime is unconcerned with the harm to working people and the middle class so long as the tax cuts keep the stock market humming and the oligarchs wealthy. But the foundation is crumbling

Absolutely He should throw in Qatar plane, the money that he and his family have grifted from the Emiratis, Saudis, and Crypto fraudsters, the $ he has set aside for his Triumphal Arch and his Kennedy Center rebuild, and we are just getting started!

Past time for the State of Washington to stop sharing data with CPB to allow them to make warrantless stops of vehicles. Call @governorferguson.bsky.social and Secretary of Trans Julie Meredith to tell them to stop aiding ICE terrorizing our communities.

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Saudi Arabia’s oil officials are working frantically to project how high oil prices might go if the Iran war and its disruption of energy supplies doesn’t end soon—and they don’t like what they are seeing.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

Trump and company's flailing around as they realize that they have blundered their way into a quagmire in Iran and are casting around for options reminds me of Pete Seeger's Vietnam Era classic m.youtube.com/watch?v=24VO...

👏👏 CNN’s Harry Enten: “This is the most troublesome sign I've seen for Trump & the GOP. Trump's now a record low 41 pts underwater on the cost of living per Yahoo/YouGov. He's 60 pts underwater on the issue with indies!! Wave adios to the House & maybe Senate cause you can't win with these numbers.”

Not just California-- Washington State is also facing skyrocketing gas prices due to Trump's war with Iran. @heatmap.news

Since Donald Trump seems to be doing everything he can to drive up the price of oil and move the world toward clean electricity, I decided to re-up the tongue in cheek piece I wrote last year asking if "Donny two dolls" was actually a Secret Agent for the Climate. medium.com/@ross.macfar...

DJT help BYD

!!! @hcrichardson.bsky.social highlights @wyden.senate.gov digging in on what appears to be a blatant cover-up of financial and drug crimes relating to l'affaire Epstein. Watch this space !!! 1/ heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2...

EVs are drastically cutting into global oil demand, @bloomberg.com reports. The Iran war and the resulting spike in oil prices will accelerate these trends.

The Iran War and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz proves the value of Spain's strategy to invest in renewable energy and free itself from gas dependence

This needs to be top headlines every day: Russia is aiding Iran in war with US while Trump lifts sanctions on Russian oil, endangering US troops and allowing Putin to gain hundreds of millions every day in extra revenue. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

You can't understand the roots of Trump's attack on Iran without knowing the critical importance of petrodollars. It wasn't only Israel that goaded the US to go to war, Saudi Arabia also played key role. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/

KING: Can you update us on Russian intel sharing w/ Iran? GABBARD: That answer would be for a closed session K: But is it occurring? G: What I can say is according to the Dept of War, any support Iran is receiving is not inhibiting operational effects K: That's the first cousin of 'yes,' I guess

Looking forward to hearing Huerta next month when @sierraclub.org awards her a Change Maker Award for her lifetime of courageous advocacy.

Trump's antipathy to wind continues to block permitting on federal land while a trickle of solar projects start to get through the BLM bureaucracy. @eenews.bsky.social @ianstevenson.bsky.social

No one better at tenaciously following the money trails than @wyden.senate.gov -- clear that he is on the scent of something big here!

Outstanding article and thread: two paths to the same end result of rapid renewable energy deployment. Either Red or Blue can get you to Green if you don't get stuck in the MAGA fossil trap. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

Not only Iran targeting energy infrastructure. Qatar protests Israel attacking Iran's gas fields: "The Israeli targeting of facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars field, an extension of Qatar’s North Field, is a dangerous & irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region"

Historic high temperatures across the west. Raising again the question, what does "average" even mean with rapidly shifting baselines due to climate change. 1/ lift.opensnow.com/newsletters/...

Polls show Talarico leading either Paxton or Cornyn. Don't believe polls, you Must Vote this year, bring a friend!

Perhaps Trump talked to Washington, Lincoln, or FDR in his dreams ... anything's possible, right?

The Trump Admin keeps finding ways to shock me when I think that I have gotten beyond shock -- they are planning to pay @totalenergie.bsky.social nearly $1 billion NOT to build offshore wind off North Carolina. Bad for taxpayers, ratepayers, anyone who breathes, and the climate

So they’re claiming the only way to win is by suppressing voters.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.