During the startup periods of various energy sources in the USA, researchers have found that fossils have gotten 15X what renewables have received from the feds, and 10X what nuclear has gotten.

I published an op-ed in Newsday highlighting how successful South Fork Wind Farm's first year of operation in New York has been. 💡 🔌 ⚡ We need more of these proven resources — with no associated ongoing fuel costs — on the grid ASAP. www.newsday.com/opinion/comm...

The @bloomberg.com Green gang put our heads together and highlighted Climate/Energy Stories to Watch in 2026: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

🔌💡 So…will we get decent permitting reform in 2026?

I just finished re-reading @russellgold’s “Superpower” (2019). It’s a good book to revisit as we head into 2026. So little has changed. Thoughts: - “return on equity” regulation = a huge barrier to new entrants w few proposals for solns (note: Rep. Casten’s got some) 1/

Even in the US. electrek.co/2025/12/29/e...

2025 was the warmest year on record for Central England in a dataset that starts in 1659. (Daily data available since 1772.) www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadce...

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

This is great news, but we're not done yet. Get to zero!

2025 was bleak but someday we will have fusion at sea and SMRs underground heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Not certain if I’ve seen a FedEx electric delivery van prior. I like it!

Good morning with good news: Science names Renewable Energy Surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year! 2025 saw Renewable Energy pass coal as World's Top electricity source. Solar & wind global growth exceeds electricity demand growth from Jan-June 2025. #energysky www.science.org/content/arti...

The problem is North Americans have been simultaneously educated and reaffirmed from personal manipulated experience that: 1) climate change is dangerous and getting worse, 2) their children are only safe in SUVs+, 3) that EVs & heat pumps are very expensive. None of this was necessarily true.

On average, Christmas Day was 15.4F above the 1991-2020 normal. Seems warm. Seems bad.

Looks like the initial data on NYC congestion pricing say it’s working. 👏 🔌💡 #TalkAboutClimate www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Did you know Unitarians and Universalists helped shape what we now think of as “the holidays” in the U.S.? 🎄 This UU In Good Faith blog post explores the surprising history—and the values behind it. Discover the story: https://bit.ly/44CNde1 #UU #Holidays

ICYMI: The ePermit Act passed out of the House and is in the Senate. The is good news. Here's a piece from September on why it matters. #permitting heatmap.news/ideas/nepa-r...

Huge good news: as documented by Ben Storrow of @eenews.bsky.social, the NECEC transmission line was activated around 1 PM today & is feeding power from Quebec to the #NewEngland grid! This means lower emissions and lower prices, and we can already see the latter./1 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Important analysis here from Ember. Compare dispatchable solar at $76/MWh (given these assumptions) to the most recent LCOE numbers from Lazard. At these price points, it's game over for thermal generation. (NB: combined cycle gas isn't particularly dispatchable)

The most promising “bipartisan” permitting reform deal — the SPEED Act — seems to be falling apart after Mike Johnson added language capitulating to offshore wind opponents American Clean Power has now pulled their support for the bill and moderate Dems seem like they’ll jump ship

Possible good news up north. #wind #Maine www.canarymedia.com/articles/win...

Turkey agrivoltaics seems better than grazing sheep under the PV in the USA as Americans don't eat all that much lamb it would seem to me. Should we try to make FowlVoltaics into a commonly used term? ambrook.com/offrange/liv...

Good thread and article to nerd out on over your Saturday morning coffee: why were 2023-25 so hot?

We really need to teach people to look at the combo of their gas + elec bills when they convert to a heat pump. 🙄

Maybe the most surprising part of this story was learning about the advantages of having utilities do building decarb work. It's not just the $$. There are higher installation standards and layers of accountability. heatmap.news/energy/coned...

I want all utilities to be both electric and gas! Sadly that’s not true where I live. 😔

Concise, useful summary in this article about the debate over how much NEPA is holding up big transmission. Thx @emilypont.bsky.social. I’ll add one more point: it seems that, if xmission lines were treated like gas pipelines, a lot of issues would be solved. 🤔 #permitting 💡🔌

A national cable audience stands rapt before @atherton.bsky.social

Big thanks to @ellecordova.bsky.social et al for this song. Sometimes dark humor is the only way. youtube.com/shorts/NpIq-...

The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

New: Key Senate Democrats told @jael.bsky.social they want a permitting deal that supports transmission and clean energy, and that the current House proposal, the SPEED Act, "does not meet that standard." heatmap.news/politics/sch...

Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess

"This is the last chance for Western countries to convince the rest of the world that they are capable of dialogue rather than monologue, consistency rather than double standards, and cooperation rather than domination." Finland's Alexander Stubb in: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Just a nice collection of perovskites stuff from yesterday. 1. Aiming for a 35% cell in four years:

California shut down its last coal plant last week and nobody even noticed, it made so little little difference. Meanwhile solar is up 17% and gas is down 17% from 2024. I have a few highlights... www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...

Good morning with good news: Vietnam's 2025 energy plan increases solar capacity to 73 GW by 2030 from ~16 GW operating in 2024. Wind grows to ~38 GW by 2030. S&W were ~13% of electricity in 2024 Coal falls to 17% by 2030 from 50% in 2024! Wow! solarquarter.com/2025/04/21/v... #energysky

Ooh @greenprofgreen.bsky.social's book Existential Politics, about the unavoidable conflicts between fossil, climate vulnerable, and green asset holders, is finally out. @drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here: drilled.media/news/drillin...

Read this. By @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...

#NewWord “flaming hypocrisy with hair on it” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

I got the pies and the stuffing done. How about you? 🦃🥧🍽️🍁🏈

#NewWord “proppant”: “a granular material, like sand or engineered ceramic, used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process to keep fractures in rock formations open after the high-pressure fluid is withdrawn.” - Google Gemini Sounds important to deep geothermal. 👍

This is exactly it. All Trump and the GOP have done is KILL clean energy projects left and right to cut deals for their polluter buddies. To actually have real negotiations on permitting reform, they must first stop their war on clean energy.

Good morning with good news: Australia generated with renewables for first time more than 50% of its electricity for a month in October 2025! October RE Share 2025: 50.13% 2024: 47.2% 2023: 45.2% 2020: 24.8% 2015: 14.0% Wind & solar rose to 44% in October 2025 from 8% in October 2015! #energysky

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I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

In the 4 years since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Clean School Bus Program has awarded $2.7 billion for over 8,500 clean school buses at more than 1,000 school districts 🚌 Voice your support for expanded funding: bit.ly/SupportCleanS... #CleanRide4Kids 🔌💡

At CCL's Fall Conference, Dr. Sena Koleva. Talking about Moral Issues and the Science Behind Communications: yourmorals.org