BREAKING: Duke Energy has signed the 4th settlement agreement with the Trump administration to relinquish its offshore wind leases. In this case, Interior says Duke will re-invest the $129 million into "generating capacity" but did not specify what kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

Where data centers are leading to higher costs, it's because of constrained grids and capacity markets that aren't working. A ratepayer protection pledge might get hyperscalers to pay for some substations, but won't fix these market issues heatmap.news/politics/rat...

Big tech comapnies are at least open — if not outright supportive — of bills and pledges that could put them on the hook for billions of dollars of costs. Why? heatmap.news/politics/rat...

Fascinating issue of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's newsletter today on deforestation and trade. I had no idea that most deforestation in Brazil related to beef production is driven by demand in Brazil itself... hannahritchie.substack.com/p/deforestat...

This is so cool. Such an incredible resource!

Really sad news. Such a big loss for Inside Climate News and environmental journalism broadly. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Did you know that @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social is now writing a nightly briefing for our subscribers? A short missive analyzing the news of the day. Yesterday’s was a banger. heatmap.news/daily/trump-...

Part 2 of 3 of my decarbonization series: what we're doing wrong and some real world data on hybrid HVAC. What do you agree or disagree with? What stands out to you? #heatpumps www.latitudemedia.com/news/why-hom...

Breaking: Trump made another deal to pay an offshore wind developer to walk away from all 4 of its leases, this time with Invenergy. More details in Heatmap. heatmap.news/energy/trump...

great story by @emilypont.bsky.social about anthropic finally getting involved in the climate discussion while also likely having a very carbon intensive energy footprint heatmap.news/climate/anth...

Big news today that Anthropic is joining the carbon removal initiative Frontier... despite doing no clean energy work. Some might call it a textbook example of betting on carbon removal to clean up its mess later. Except Anthropic is now poaching clean energy talent... heatmap.news/climate/anth...

Is the market for electrification big enough for two battery-powered induction stove companies? Impulse Labs and Copper are suing each other. @kbrigham.bsky.social has the deets. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Some of the most important things companies could do to address climate change are not recognized or rewarded by net-zero or carbon accounting frameworks. Some of the most meaningless things they can do are. Several recent critiques argue for a new paradigm. heatmap.news/sustainabili...

Trump’s Department of Justice is giving up on defending the president’s offshore wind permitting moratorium. New from me: heatmap.news/sparks/trump...

Surprised I'm not seeing more about this... CDP, formerly the carbon disclosure project, which for a long time has been a nonprofit, is going private greenhouse gas reporting is a big business

"Today, people throw around the 'climate change denier' label often enough that it has lost some of its charge. But Raymond was the genuine article, a true villain." Rob on the legacy of Lee Raymond. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

I think a major litmus test in this moment will be how climate activists and enviro groups approach the Becerra campaign

I even learned how to make a Sankey! Hopefully I did it right

Fun project out today from me and @zeitlin.bsky.social: Some 40 climate tech founders and CEOs are alumni of SpaceX and Tesla. We mapped out what sectors they went into, how much $ they raised, and talked to them about what they learned working for Musk. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Across 400 NYC apartments, Entech's sensors and AI software drove boiler efficiency gains that slashed emissions by nearly 25% and generated more than $5 million in savings for property owners during the winter heating season. Pretty cool. from @kbrigham.bsky.social heatmap.news/climate-tech...

In April I reported on some concerning conduct within the GHG Protocol. Now, Danny Cullenward, a member of its oversight board, has resigned in protest, accusing GHGP of handing standards development over to “a secret, industry-dominated drafting process.” heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

BREAKING: A group of states led by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over its deal with TotalEnergies to buy back two offshore wind leases worth nearly $1B. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the details: heatmap.news/energy/total...

It cost $48 million to operate. chump change. Probably cost a lot more to dismantle. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Yes, this was one explicit purpose of the program as written into the law. (the High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program rebates, not HOMES rebates)

The DOE's new home energy rebate guidance will "block the vast majority of upgrades the program was designed to fund" according to Evergreen

The DOE just issued new guidance for the IRA home rebate programs, which will get the money flowing to states that have been held up. 🔌⚡ At least one major (and potentially illegal?) change, though: The rebates can no longer be used to fund gas -> electric appliance switching.

Breaking: California becomes the latest blue state to retreat on climate goals amid affordability concerns as regulators Friday evening voted to revamp its landmark carbon market to ease costs to the oil industry with $4 billion in incentives. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

horrible

I went long on Span, the electrical panel company scaling the concept of utilizing the existing capacity on the grid from homeowners saving $ installing EV chargers to utilities saving $ avoiding transformer upgrades to AI users hunting for compute heatmap.news/energy/span-...

Has any issue generated more URLs than the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's scope 2 standard revision? scopetrue.org expertconsensusoncarbonimpact.com www.pragmaticcarbon.com www.maynotshallscope2.com

In case you missed it, this is not new. Trump's apparent abuse of the Judgment Fund is now a pattern. Trump "settled" non-existing lawsuits with 3 offshore wind developers to get them to walk away from their leases, paying nearly $2 billion out of the Judgment Fund. heatmap.news/energy/trump...

Apparently SBTi has dropped its earlier proposal to make hourly matching of clean electricity part of its standard for what constitutes a "science-based net zero target." (This is separate from GHG Protocol's pending standard for scope 2 accounting.) www.ft.com/content/2ed9...

CHPE is coming. ⚡ (From Heatmap AM by @alexckaufman.bsky.social ) heatmap.news/am/fervo-ipo...

From my @heatmap.news story today: Graham Platner told anti-data center climate activists in March that if elected he’d back a national moratorium

I don’t think it does readers any favors when we sum up the story like this. We’re not just talking about regulations. It’s a fight over when to enact a carbon tax, which by definition ⬆️ energy costs for some (in the immediate term). NYers should know what’s coming to get used to the idea

Here's the story. heatmap.news/climate/micr...

The federal administration tried to shut down the Sunrise Wind Project once, and we won't let it happen again.   My office and @governor.ny.gov are intervening in a lawsuit to protect this project that supports thousands of union jobs and protects New Yorkers from climate change.

Story to come, but here's some interesting tidbits I learned in reporting on Microsoft's potential pullback to its target of 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. 🧵 1. Microsoft set the goal in 2021, but unlike Google, has never publicly reported on progress toward it.

@calenergy.bsky.social just issued an administrative investigative subpoena to Golden State Wind regarding its deal with the Trump administration to abandon an offshore wind project in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area: www.energy.ca.gov/news/2026-05... cc: @emilypont.bsky.social 🔌💡

i didn't have the attention span to read all of caity weaver's article about free restaurant bread but i do hope it sparks a resurgence in the offering of free restaurant bread

Thinking again about the years of hype and buildup and fundraising leading to the launch of MethaneSAT, only to have it immediately get lost in space

We’ve officially opened the search for CarbonPlan’s next Executive Director, and would love your help sharing the position profile. Refer candidates or apply by May 29 for priority consideration: www.goodcitizen.com/executive-se...

As Pennsylvania communities grapple w/ the data center explosion, the Shapiro administration has been wheeling and dealing with Amazon behind the scenes. @jael.bsky.social has the receipts. heatmap.news/politics/sha...

The lawmakers demand that Total preserve all documents, emails, texts, etc related to the deal and put the $$ in escrow until the investigation is finished.

Yesterday suspicions were confirmed that Trump's $1b offshore wind deal with TotalEnergies wasn't a one-off but a new model to squash the industry. I wrote about who could be next in line and what this could ultimately cost the Treasury heatmap.news/energy/trump...

NEW: Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin are going after TotalEnergies, claiming its $1B deal with the Trump administration was unlawful in “at least four separate ways.” heatmap.news/energy/huffm...

*another ~$1 Billion agreement to kill offshore wind leases

breaking: new trump agreements to kill offshore wind leases

There's so much more to this story. The forest science debate alone deserves a story of its own. To be continued.

I have a long story out today about what’s going down at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This org touches everything that’s happening globally on climate change, and is painfully (bc it’s so esoteric) important to climate action. Hope you give it a read. heatmap.news/carbon-remov...