“Because they did it first” has got to be the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard from grown men and women.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Zero conservation calls this summer for Texas, thanks to new solar and storage builds.

ICE's huge raid on a Hyundai battery plant under construction in Georgia has outraged and alienated key U.S. ally South Korea, while setting back prospects of getting successful foreign companies to manufacture in America. My colleague @scottlincicome.bsky.social has a wrap-up.

I submitted a comment to the Public Sevice Commission in favor of this action. We’re going to build the power generation anyway. Might as well do it in time to take advantage of the tax credits. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Trigger warning. If you think the answer to climate change is degrowth, modern monetary theory, global revolution, 100% WWS, 100% nuclear power, the hydrogen economy, or any other Monty Python cult, please don't read the #PragmaticClimateReset. 17/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

Great stuff here, informed by solid numbers. Read it all. But if that’s too much, then read the 🧵

On Wednesday at 6pm MT I will be the presenter for the CCL LDS Action Team’s virtual meeting, talking about our recent lobby day in Washington DC and the current landscape for bipartisan legislation. Feel free to join us! Details here. www.ldscreationcare.org/events/ldsat...

This is why clean energy advocates are becoming abundance people, and the defenders of incumbent industries are becoming degrowthers. It’s a new political landscape.

Ouch. Couldn’t stop in time for this thing and endoed over it. Then a couple minutes further, mama and baby moose had the trail and I had to turn around and go back the way I came.

100% agree. Letting people see the full cost of water is the best way to get incentives aligned to the right outcome.

Our doggie got stomped by a moose today. I have no idea how, but he’s walking around like nothing happened.

Whoa 👀 I’m surprised and glad to see this. We’re playing hardball now. “This is a case where both the law and congressional intent are clear.”

Turning the fastest-growing sources of electricity into a culture war issue is really dumb and self-defeating. “The answer is not to cede the technological advantage to America’s most powerful adversary. It is to compete so that the U.S. can regain its edge.”

Doug Burgum’s state gets 40% of its electricity from renewables - and it doubled under his leadership. I wonder what it is about his current job that now makes him say that was bad.

Doug Burgum’s state gets 40% of its electricity from renewables - and it doubled under his leadership. I wonder what it is about his current job that now makes him say that was bad.

If they're not careful, over the next three and a half years, the administration will end up with none of the above, just as they're trying to win the AI race. www.douglewin.com/p/none-of-t...

Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling. Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change. Decarbonize the grid.

There’s only one boss in the house.

Thank you to our Utah legislators for meeting with us about supporting clean energy for affordable and reliable power! #grassrootsclimate #CCL2025

I’ll be on the Hill tomorrow talking to our Utah members of Congress about clean, affordable, and reliable power. We’ll be asking them to: Fund ARPA-E and EERE Reject administration attempts to further restrict energy tax credits Advance smart permitting reform for energy projects

From a conversation in the replies on the other site: We should absolutely invest in nuclear. We ARE investing in nuclear. But that’s a longer timescale project and it isn’t going to be coming to the rescue in the next decade. Right now we need every energy technology that can deliver power.

More signers on this op-ed now. Thank-you to Rep Tracy Miller and Senator Todd Weiler.

The reconciliation language that came out last night tipped this from a negotiation on contested points to a hard ‘no’ on the entire bill. If you want to help, here is a calling tool to reach out to Republican Senators.

Thank-you to Republican Reps Lisa Shepherd, Ray Ward, Tyler Clancy, and Dave Shallenberger for this op-ed urging the Senate to protect the energy tax credits. “These provisions are about providing certainty and stability so that businesses can continue to invest in American energy with confidence.”

Thank you to my Congressman, Rep. Blake Moore, and to Utah’s Rep. Mike Kennedy for signing on to this letter. “A group of nine House Republicans sent another letter to Sen Republican leaders urging them to soften energy tax credit phase-downs..., and extend the phase-out for rooftop solar to 2028”

China installed almost as much solar in the first five months of the year as we have total in the US.

👀👀 Op-ed from a huge list of Utah business leaders supporting the IRA tax credits. 🔌💡 "We are concerned that drastic changes to federal tax policy will negatively impact Utah businesses that are building the power generation we desperately need." #utpol

“Electricity is at the center of China’s efforts to overtake the U.S. economy. Yet Trump and the House leadership appear apathetic in their approach to this vital race with China; they seem to have given up.”

From Utah Rep Ray Ward (R - Bountiful) Opinion: Please don’t undo our federal investments in energy and technology “If you planted a tree five years ago, and it is just starting to do well, now is a very bad time to go pull it up by the roots.”

The Deseret News Editorial Board agreeing with Senator Curtis that keeping the tax credits is good for Utah’s energy production.

No parents, no guides, no boys. Just picking an objective and figuring it out on their own. #ProudDad

Fun to host a group from Indonesia tonight on behalf of Utah Global Diplomacy.

That policy uncertainty is 100% self-inflicted.

Sen. Curtis in op-ed on IRA credits: “Businesses from across the energy spectrum [including renewables] have already made billions in long-term investments.” “Many of these credits are Republican policies that we fought to protect. They support strategic energy assets and a robust domestic economy.”

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c... 🔌💡 REPEAT Project work cited here finds repeal of clean electricity tax credits could raise retail electricity rates by 4-5% on average and over 20% in some states by 2030.

Injection molding, electric motors, and batteries are key defense technologies now. Great piece on the shift that’s happening.

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

If you didn’t think battery manufacturing capability was strategically important - today might change your mind.

The future of warfare just shifted dramatically. Also - every base in the US is vulnerable to the same kind of attack.

Russia attacks apartment buildings. Ukraine attacks air bases.

Worth repeating today

This court decision is as good for Republicans as the one ending covid restrictions was for Democrats. Everybody knows it needed to end, but it was politically too hard to do it themselves.

This seems like a completely obvious result, in the same way that Biden couldn't just declare an emergency and override whatever laws he wanted. The Constitution clearly gives the tariff power to Congress. And we should want the policy to be deliberative.

"Baseload solar" is a term you're going to start hearing more often. That's solar with enough storage to match the capacity factor of a nuclear plant.

You don’t lose 25:1 by accident, or because of woke judges, or whatever. You lose that much because you’re breaking the law. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-96-reb...

"Geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and adjoining states could produce electricity equivalent to 10% of the current U.S. power supply"

I’ve been kind of unicycle-obsessed for the last month, but pulled a muscle in my chest working on a new trick. Time to give it a break and take up mountain biking again.

We are America and we make fun of countries who do this.

The Trump administration is doing all of the things that the Right once said it feared: turning the federal government into an unchecked authoritarian instrument, kidnapping legal residents without due process, wielding executive power to settle personal and partisan disagreements, etc.