"I don't think they should be given any benefit of the doubt that what they’re doing here is a lawful approach, or that they have the authorization to do what they are doing," former BOEM head Liz Klein told me. heatmap.news/energy/trump...

The Interior Department this week announced that it would buy back a $1B offshore wind lease from TotalEnergies. But it’s far from clear they can actually do that. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social on the big questions about the deal: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

All signs point to Trump's $1B offshore wind deal with Total being a settlement. But what was the cause for litigation? Trump's permitting freeze that a court already overturned? That's one of many unanswered questions about this *unusual* (to say the least) deal heatmap.news/energy/trump...

welp i've already dropped my phone in a pot of water and then discovered i forgot about a dentist appointment this morning how's your day going

Direct Air Capture startups, once the darlings of climate tech, are running out of runway. I wrote about a fascinating effort to buy IP and experimental data from failing startups before their learnings are lost to time, and make it available for others to carry forward heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

I went deep on the climate fight in New York, where the governor is trying to roll back the state's 2019 climate law. I hope there's some helpful context in here for those who, like me, felt there was a lot being left unsaid. heatmap.news/climate/new-...

Yet another nail in the coffin of "Renewable Ravenswood" ☠️ ⚰️ ... as previously envisioned, at least

Trump is buying back Total's offshore wind leases dollar-for-dollar under an agreement that Total will reinvest the money in oil and gas. www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

Why does every NY state website automatically force you to download PDFs rather than opening them in a new window! All I want is to link to a state-issued PDF!

TIL that you can select your "preferred sources" for Google to show you news results from. As good a time as any to add @heatmap.news to the list! blog.google/products-and...

Biomass carbon removal projects — BECCS, biochar, burial — have sold oodles of carbon credits the last few years. An assessment from @cleanaircatf.bsky.social found that the protocols used to certify these credits are widely inconsistent and variously flawed. heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Yesterday the Trump admin extended its order to keep the Centralia coal plant available to operate through June 14, so this Washington law could come into play. An open Q though is who will cover $$ for Centralia to keep staff on site to run the plant, even if it doesn't actually run?

Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.

edit: this forest project was in Oregon, but it was the largest in California's carbon market!

A few years ago, @shannonosaka.bsky.social and I wrote about a fire that burned the largest forest carbon offset project in California. grist.org/climate/this... Now the project is officially dead. 🧵 1/3

ConEd says New York’s battery boom could overload the grid. The industry and its allies are pushing back. nysfocus.com/2026/03/13/c...

Hello! The best team in Climate Politics and Policy is still looking for a Data Engineer! We're interested in people with more relevant civic data experience and a strong interest in Climate Cabinet's mission. Priority deadline extended to March 17th. Fully remote within the US.

anyone have hotel recs for SF climate week?

Real life example of AI helping tackle a climate change challenge: Google used Gemini to extract data from news articles, creating the largest global database of historical flood events to date (and open-source!). Then they trained a flash flood prediction model with it. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Green cement startup Sublime Systems has laid off 2/3 of its current workforce after the Trump admin canceled a crucial grant that would have supported the producer’s first major manufacturing facility, @akshatrathi.bsky.social @emmarcourt.bsky.social report: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another disclaimer: As I wrote in the piece, this law may end up being more of a middle finger to Trump than an effective policy. The DOE's order to keep the plant open expires in a few days, and the plant's owner has said publicly that they don't see any scenario where they'll need to run it.

Washington State came up with a crafty bit of policy to get around Trump's order to keep the Centralia coal plant open — tax the plant into oblivion. (Disclaimer: requires cap and trade law.) heatmap.news/energy/washi...

Just stunning – and heartbreaking – that there is barely a single data point across the VAST combined area of DRC, Sudan and South Sudan

startups 🤝 utilities there's no choice but for the stodgy industrial giants to do things a little differently these days heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Was watching this classic clip from On the Town the other night and it's amazing to see how smoggy the city was in the 40s. A true hell of a town amirite

It's such a privilege to work at a thriving news organization in 2026 and it's not going to get any easier with AI rapidly encroaching on the news business. A huge huge THANK YOU to our readers for getting us here. 🎂🎂🎂

a $95 train ticket from nyc to philly is a crime

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

But today, the whole southeast is full of prescribed fire. That’s the right way to manage the problem. Get ahead of it. Choose the time and place of the firefight instead of letting nature decide. CA has a lot to learn from FL, GA, and other southeastern states about wildfire resilience at scale.

"The Trump administration really wants you to think it’s thawing the freeze on renewable energy projects. Whether this is a genuine face turn or a play to curry favor with the courts and Congress, however, is less clear." - @jael.bsky.social heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

BREAKING: A federal judge dismissed Trump’s challenge to New York’s congestion pricing program, writing, “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.” Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the backstory: heatmap.news/sparks/conge...

One of my 2026 predictions has come to pass heatmap.news/sparks/conge...

The federal government claiming state preemption after killing the endangerment finding “feels like a bad ex-boyfriend who says, I don’t want to date you anymore, but you can’t date those other people either,” Georgetown Prof. Vicki Arroyo told @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/climate/enda...

It will take years for cases related to the Trump EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding to work their way through the courts. Meanwhile, SCOTUS just agreed hear a case that touches on many of the same arguments. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the story: heatmap.news/climate/enda...

Legal challenges to the EPA's big reversal on the endangerment finding could take years to get to the Supreme Court. But the Court will now have to confront the agency's actions as soon as this fall when it reviews Colorado's lawsuit against Exxon. heatmap.news/climate/enda...

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✨Mini scoop for this Friday afternoon: In January, energy company NRG bought the biggest power plant in New York State — the Ravenswood Generating Station. Plans to convert the site into a renewable energy hub have been hanging by a thread. heatmap.news/energy/nrg-r...

Rice contribution is eye-popping 😮

Sometimes solutions are deceptively simple. As in: Ski areas aren’t getting enough snow to open for the season? What if you made a REALLY BIG PILE OF SNOW to save for the next year? heatmap.news/adaptation/s...

This bill passed the state House yesterday, albeit with some trimming to get it past the Microsoft/Amazon lobby. It's still a good bill implementing the recommendations of our data center workgroup. Also need to pass 2245/5982, to make sure large new loads comply with the 100% clean electricity law.

How did EPA ultimately justify its decision to reverse course on greenhouse gas emissions? The agency's 3 arguments will define the inevitable court battle over this move. Here's what they are. heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

The Trump administration finally issued its justifications for repealing the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. Now the big question: Will they hold up in court? @emilypont.bsky.social walks through the arguments: heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

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While I anxiously refresh various government websites because the EPA hasn't actually posted its formal repeal of the endangerment finding yet, here's what we know and don't know...

I wrote about the first 100% transparent climate risk tool. You can look up your home's wildfire risk, w/ all underlying data, methods, and code available to dl. The hope is to get this info out of black box models and invite public/scientific scrutiny and collaboration. heatmap.news/adaptation/c...

The Treasury's guidance for 45z, the Clean Fuel tax credit, indicates its moving forward with allowing biofuels producers to account for "climate smart agriculture" — which could ultimately just make the credit an even bigger subsidy for ethanol heatmap.news/politics/45z...

We are expecting the EPA to make a decision about its "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases in the next week or so. While many expect the agency to rescind it, there's a few important questions to look out for about how the move is justified. Here's why. heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

What if our thinking about Elon Musk is all wrong? What if he isn't the next Henry Ford, but the 21st century's Jack Welch or John D. Rockefeller? techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/b...

climate reporting under the Biden admin: tracking grant announcements climate reporting under the Trump admin: tracking lawsuits