A gas explosion at a nursing home drew a large emergency response to Bristol, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Officials said there were reports that people were trapped inside the building.

If DOGE's real goal was to demolish federal agencies, demoralize and push out federal workers, and sacrifice our standing in the world, mission accomplished. If the goal was to save money, it was a complete failure.

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Cicio noted that for every $1 increase in the Henry Hub price, U.S. consumers pay roughly $34 billion more for natural gas and $20 billion more for electricity — about $54 billion annually." (paywalled)

Russia’s economy keeps driving its war, but it could break in 2026 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"Hard-to-abate" is sometimes code for "we haven't looked closely yet." This great new report shows opportunities for clean heat (low/medium-temp industrial process heat) through electrification, which also has public health benefits.

Global solar deployment in 2024 shattered records, with nearly 600 gigawatts (GW) installed worldwide, a massive increase driven primarily by China, followed by the U.S. and India. 2025 will shatter that record, hitting over 800 GWs, despite the glass-half empty reporting out of the USA.

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

Ted Cruz on the EU methane regulations. "The EUMR represents a non-tariff trade barrier that could effectively end U.S. LNG exports to Europe" It would only end US LNG exports to Europe if those exports had high methane emissions. Which they do. Ted knows that. Or, at least the lobbyists do.

Reminder: Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, was hanged in Nuremberg on the basis of “Count Four” — He was found to have incited persecution on political and racial grounds in connection with war crimes.

It’s past time for the DOJ and FBI to follow the money on Epstein as I've been doing for 3 years. The bankers who looked the other way, Epstein’s accountants and lawyers who controlled his cash flow, and the billionaires who funded Epstein’s criminal network.

As Sammy points out, Yglesias is wrong even by his own standard. Dems LOST in 2016 *despite* Obama's policy of soaring domestic production. Biden WON four years later on a climate plan of 100% clean power by 2035 and net-zero by 2050. Harris LOST in 2024 after totally losing the climate base.

Wrote this ages ago, still relevant www.scientificamerican.com/blog/hot-pla...

This has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with protecting Big Oil. The more he protects oil companies, the more $$$$ they give the Convicted Felon. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Yet another reminder that when billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. The super-rich won't hesitate to sell out the American public if it means getting merger approvals or deregulation that helps their bottom line.

This is madness. Freezing offshore wind projects in progress will waste money, cost jobs, make electricity less reliable and more expensive, and will cause health harms given that fossil fuels will be used instead. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump and Doug Burgum are halting a 2.6 GW wind farm off the coast of Virginia that is already mostly built. It’s the largest project in the US. It was going to provide enough power for 660,000 homes. And it has significant local Republican support.

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new #nuclear at CO2 mitigation; 92.5% all new power capacity added worldwide 2024 from renewables, new nuclear virtually nowhere; new nuclear vastly over-cost and over-time.

3/4) Thus, policies focusing on clean, renewable energy alone can effectively speed a transition.

2/4) China's clean-energy buildout is the fastest in history, 20x faster than France's peak nuclear buildout. China is already producing ∼54% of the WWS the US needs in 2050 to go 100% WWS across all energy sectors. Seven countries are transitioning faster than China.

New paper: China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS across all energy sectors by 2051 US & India won't get there until past 2130 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

LNG exports from US up 22% over a year ago, when US was already largest exporter in the world. This is a significant cause of energy inflation costs in US. insideclimatenews.org/news/17122025/liquefied-natural-gas-exports-driving-up-energy-bills/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=8b44c2acfb

UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide 2025 Breakthrough of the Year'. www.science.org/content/arti...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...

I am a critic of enhanced geothermal tech as the economics are a deal breaker. I know many in the climate space are excited about it but likely haven't dug too deep into the details. Have you heard of the new office at DOE? The office of Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office

Not good. “If you don’t actually do the audits and find out where this stuff is actually going, if for no other reason than to keep the operators honest, it becomes very difficult to say with a straight face that you’re really effectively regulating this stuff. Because you just don’t know.”

The Yin-He Global Ocean Data Assimilation and Forecast System (YHGO) improves global ocean condition estimates by combining data assimilation with numerical modeling.🤓 @olarjournal.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Exxon is happy to help the tech industry meet its greenwashing needs, claiming that 90% of emissions from fossil-powered data centers will be captured. Never mind that CCS has never been successfully deployed at a gas plant and no CCS facility has ever come close to 90%. @emorwee.bsky.social

Looking for climate experts at #AGU25 right now who can comment on these administration plans to break up UCAR. DMs open.

It seems awfully telling that Republicans were unwilling to hold this hearing publicly. It’s not like the case hinged on classified information; they’re just afraid of the public hearing what Smith has to say.

🚨 EU: protect Methane Rules! 🚨 An NGO coalition of 24 signatories sent a letter to the Commission and EU Energy Ministers urging strong implementation of the #EUMethaneRegulation. Amid pressure from industry and the US to bypass methane rules, the import framework must not be weakened 👇

Canadians are getting to see what methane pollution looks like in the Canadian oil fields thanks to your videos. It's not pretty.

Well, I guess that subtracts one of those wars Trump claims to have ended (which he couldn't find on a map)

"as the swift build-out of data centers is adding billions of dollars to household utility bills."

During its third quarter earnings call in October, Liberty Energy Inc. CEO Ron Gusek said, “Oil and gas industry frac activity has now fallen below levels required to sustain North American oil production.” Remember when Scott Bessent promised an additional 3 million bpd of US oil production?

Trump is edging closer and closer to a full-blown war with Venezuela, one Truth Social post at a time. End the madness. No more endless wars.

Great article by Gaige on the impacts of LNG export facilities on local communities. The tax breaks are stunning in their scale as these communities deal with poverty and job loss. “For all the money that is spent on [tax breaks], why is downtown looking like this? This is the heart of the city"

US issues demands to EU to kill the methane regulation, or, short of that, to exempt American LNG from methane regulation until 2035 If US LNG has such low levels of methane, as industry claims, why are the heavy handed tactics needed? www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Read this. Then read it again.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

HOT OFF THE PRESS: My latest piece on Germany’s energy transition & the heating law. It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating. What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate. medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

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