In a functioning democracy, Donald Trump would be in prison right now.

US keeps lifting sanctions on Russia and its global allies.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Uh, NASA, while watching the video feed for the #Artemis launch, I think I just watched Canadian astronaut Hansen enter his pin number on his tablet... You might have him change his login... 😅

He's not wrong.

This is wild; NuScale, one of the "leading" developers of PowerPoint small modular reactors, paid $495m to a British-based shell company in return for financing and building NuScale SMRs. But Entra1 has never sold or built... anything. NuScale stock has since lost 70% of its value

And a lot is being used to power oil and gas extraction. It takes a lot of power to get all of that oil and gas out of the ground and move it around. The amount of new grid infrastructure in the very low population Permian is insane.

NY's @governor.ny.gov is trying to change the more scientifically robust greenhouse gas accounting to a version that distorts policy & investment decisions in favor of fossil gas. Incredibly short-sighted when CH4 is a key control for slowing atmospheric warming. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

For those trying to understand where things are at in New York’s climate law fight, here’s the latest from @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social on the other site:

WindWaterSolar still winning despite Trump 88.43% of all new US grid electricity capacity 2025 was WindWaterSolar Wind 5.76 GW (15.8%) Water 0.004 Solar 26.6 (72.7%) FERC projections to 2028: 85.5% WWS Wind 17.6% Water 2.59% Solar 65.3% Gas only 13.9% cms.ferc.gov/media/energy...

Today on Volts: the US grid is, on average, carrying about half the capacity it's capable of. A new industry coalition argues that, before building expensive new infrastructure to serve rising demand, we should more efficiently use the infrastructure we have. New tech makes it possible.

And, of course, it's a lie. Dozens of other countries have this same right.

Is anyone surprised? A voluntary certification scheme to limit gas leaks from US production sites isn't working BP & ExxonMobil are among producers wanting certification to comply with EU rules Yet gas-imaging cameras revealed “huge emissions” at many sites www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Batteries & solar make gas biggest loser! CAISO batteries charged heavily with solar (3/29). Battery discharges peaked at 44% of grid demand and provided more than 20% of grid demand for 4 hours. CA batteries grew from 1.3 GW to 17 GW since 2020! reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteri... #energysky

I keep seeing interviews with Marco Rubio, but not a single reporter has asked how he feels about Trump‘s argument in the birthright citizen case. Rubio was born here and his parents were not citizens at the time. They were naturalized four years after he was born.

Buried deep in your monthly utility bill, there's a charge for the consulting and legal fees your utility racks up when it goes before state regulators and asks to raise your rates. My latest story on how a proposed law in Mass seeks to change that @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...

Metadata for the win, no joke. Before becoming a top official at the EPA, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

Almost half of US data centers planned for 2026 are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries. US doesn't have manufacturing capacity, forcing it to rely on imports. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

SCOTUS is arguing birthright citizenship today. SG: "We're in a new world..." Roberts: "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution." A perfect admonishment of the Trump administration's routine effort to use any political crisis to justify undermining the Constitution.

Join Science Under Siege authors @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, tomorrow 4/2 from 6-730pm at the MIT Museum for a discussion moderated by Boston Globe editor Anna Kuchment. Register here: mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/aut...

@governor.ny.gov wants to delay releasing state regulations to lower GHG pollution by 5 years. This is going to cost NYers up to $9,000 in energy bills, 150,000 jobs, and up to $60 billion in lost revenue. Bottom line: our leaders need to govern, not delay doing their job.

If you only have time to read one article about this, read @jamellebouie.net in the NYTimes. Excellent on the history of this, but also on the absurd effort to negate the plain language and meaning of the constitution: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

This is the woman whose FBI 302s were “mistakenly” withheld by MAGA DOJ, and interview notes still withheld. Some transparency.

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

Excited to see this piece out in The Guardian. An honor to work with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Marcello Rossi on this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thrilled to see this investigation out in @theguardian.com today (follow-on piece from @drilledmedia.bsky.social mañana) on the shocking news that voluntary certifications built on self-reported data are probs not going to meaningfully reduce methane emissions 🙃 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The LNG we import in Europe is far from clean. Visible methane plumes at US gas sites rated “grade A” resulting in much higher upstream emissions. Auditors don’t measure emissions — they review operator data that studies show is massively understated. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The U.S. provides the EU with 60% of its LNG. NEW INVESTIGATION: the certification program that Europe uses to gauge how leaky our natural gas extraction and processing system is has vastly underestimated the problem. US fracking is a climate nightmare. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NY Times today on NY budget fight: "Climate activists and scientists say that this price instability is precisely why New York should be doing all it can to wean itself off fossil fuels. They are urging the governor to redouble efforts to produce more renewables...." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

This short ad from NYPIRG is spot on. Oil & gas industry has spent millions over past several years in push to gut our NY climate law. They really want NY to fail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzj...

The Dutch energy supplier NextEnergy is offering its customers a free 2 kWh plug-in battery. The (4-year) monthly lease is €20.83, with guaranteed yearly savings of €250. www.nextenergy.nl/smart-home/p...

"The study ... checked homes for gas leaks that occur chronically, when cookers were switched off and found 40 per cent of kitchens had gas leaks in the three countries they took samples from." IT, NL and UK. Via @davidesabbadin.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The Trump Admin, which has repeatedly nominated self-avowed antisemites to senior positions, claims this is to protect Jewish rights, but it is hard to see how forcing employers and employees to report their bloodlines to the government (but only if they are Jewish) will accomplish that.

"actual gas waste in 2024 estimated at three to four-and-a-half times reported levels" US gas is 60% of Europe's fossil gas... Private certification schemes are .... garbage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Asia was where they were all betting that LNG demand would rapidly expand. It wasn't going to happen anyway due to the impossible economics of LNG vs renewables but now they all apparently realize this. Good news for the planet!

"Location of gas transmission pipelines at Indian Point Nuclear Plant is a major threat. The 42” diameter AIM pipeline, was constructed within 105 ft. of critical structures at Indian Point (IP), despite overwhelming opposition from local citizens and elected officials." 1/

4/ Most of the investigated highly renewable energy transition studies agree: solar PV & wind will provide 80–99% of electricity by 2050. Two groups for the PV share are detected: about 25-50% and 70-95%, with the latter overcoming the issues of post (2) plus sunbelt conditions.

3/ Solar PV share greatly varies between studies ranging from 5-98% with many studies underestimating the future role of PV due to pessimistic cost assumptions & low-complexity modelling. Typical issues: outdated cost, low spatial & temporal resolution, lack of power-to-X options.

1/ Researchers @unihannover & @lut.fi performed a systematic literature review on the future role of solar PV in energy transition studies around the globe and found that solar PV emerges as the dominant energy source by 2050. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs....

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US #gas sites rated ‘grade A’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... Europe shouldn't be up for s(h)ale! The #methane regulation and our democracies are no bargaining tools! @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social 1/2

It’s what our country was based on. Let’s fight for it.

Begging the question whether Trump, 79, is in full control of his mental faculties.

Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them. www.vox.com/climate/4844...

While the article focuses on international reporting, we have a problem here in the US as well: rooftop solar is counted as ‘demand reduction’ not as energy generation. But of course it DOES generate electricity and transmits it to the user very efficiently without adding any strain to the grid!

“New York cannot keep walking itself up to the start line with a solid plan, only to back out of the race at the last minute.” Interesting perspective here from NYSERDA’s chief of staff during the scoping plan years: acadiacenter.org/climate-and-...

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

No, this isn’t simplistic! It’s just… not really that complicated. All the tech is there, easy to buy and install. It’s just a matter of (cliche alert!) political will.

Remember the names of these heinous people: DOI's Doug Bergum, DOA's Brooke Rollins, Army's Daniel Driscoll, COE's Pierre Yared, EPA's Lee Zelden, and NOAA's Neil Jacobs. There is more crude oil and natural gas exported from Gulf of Mexico ports to other countries than produced in the Gulf.

More like the Extinction Squad. The oil & gas industry has long treated the Gulf of Mexico as a sacrifice zone. Now, because Trump started a war in that other Gulf, they are going to lift species protections because it is needed for "national security." Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/c...