SCOOP w/ @josheidelson.bsky.social RFK Jr. has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate offshore wind farms #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

energy policy in Washington 🚨Trump is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP: The Trump administration has begun to refill the US's depleted strategic oil reserve, taking advantage of low oil prices to buy 1 million barrels. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A non-energy story from me: Your Christmas beer could be the latest casualty of the US government shutdown. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Furloughs for thousands of workers at the US at the federal agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal could begin as soon as Friday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP: The Trump administration closed their first deal from the Energy Department’s loan program - $1.6 billion in financing for utility American Electric Power. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The story comes a day after my colleague @arinatter.bsky.social broke the news that the US Energy Department plans to cancel $7.6 billion of projects. That includes an award for CarbonCapture's regional direct air capture hub project. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP: The Trump administration’s plans to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the US government shutdown includes an $600 million initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP: The Trump administration canceling billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as it seeks to pressure Democrats in shutdown fight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration plans to allow work on “priority conventional energy projects” to continue during the government shutdown, halting permitting for some renewable energy projects. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

SCOOP: The Trump administration has completed a deal to take an equity stake in Lithium America’s as part of a deal to renegotiate a $2.3 billion U.S. loan. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Trump is announcing a sweeping effort to help US coal the includes hundreds of millions to help retrofit existing coal plants and build new projects, opening 13 million acres in leasing. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Surging utility bills in key battleground states are threatening to become a political liability for Republicans heading into upcoming elections. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gift link so we all have access. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨NEWS: The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on wind power. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into imported wind turbines and parts, a potential precursor to adding more tariffs on the clean-energy components. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration tightened long-standing eligibility requirements for clean energy tax credits, a move that could threaten the viability of hundreds of wind and solar energy projects under development. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration is set to announce its plans to abolish the US government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, threatening to strike a deep blow at Washington’s ability to fight climate change. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOOP: The US agency responsible for maintaining the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons was among those breached by hackers exploiting Microsoft’s SharePoint. (🎁) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump is allowing chemical makers, coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The US may depart the International Energy Agency without changes to forecasting that Republicans have criticized as unrealistically green, President Donald Trump’s energy chief said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

TODAY: What's the future of US solar, wind and EV projects under Trump's tax law? Ahead of #BloombergGreen Seattle, @akshatrathi.bsky.social, @michellema.bsky.social, @arinatter.bsky.social and @mchediak.bsky.social will answer your questions. 🎧 Tune in to our Live Q&A at 1pm EDT: bit.ly/44tYaPx

Blackouts in the US could double by 2030 amid an increase in power demand brought on by AI, according to a Trump administration report that blames the expected energy shortfall on the closures of coal and natural gas power plants and overreliance on renewables. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Public land sales dropped from Trump tax bill. x.com/SenMikeLee/s...

Key tax incentives for US wind and solar projects would face a more aggressive phase-out in the Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s spending package. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Public land sales are back in Trump’s tax bill — at least for now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Shares of solar companies surged after a Republican Senator said lawmakers are discussing changes to a provision in President Donald Trump’s broad spending bill that would abruptly end tax credits for rooftop panels. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: The sale of millions of acres of public land has been blocked by the Senate’s rule keeper. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Virginia Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans cast herself as one of the chief defenders of clean energy tax credits - then she voted for the House bill gutting them. Now Democrats want to turn her vote into a political liability. (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senate Republicans included a tax break estimated to be worth more than $1 billion for oil and gas producers in their version of President Donald Trump’s sprawling fiscal package. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As much as 3 million acres of public land would be sold for billions under a portion of the Senate’s tax bill unveiled Wednesday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: The EPA is poised to unveil plans to repeal Biden’s limits on power plant emissions as soon as tomorrow. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 🎁

Lost River State Park, W. Va. #outofoffice

That Big Beautiful Bill that Musk is now attacking eliminated a tax credit worth $1.2 billion to Tesla, Richard Clough and @arinatter.bsky.social report > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senate Republicans plan to add a proposal to sell public land to raise money for Trump’s tax cut package into their version of the legislation. House stripped it out amid opposition from lawmakers like Montana’s Rep. Zinke. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Budget documents show the Trump administrations expects to offer $67 billion in financing from the green bank Trump once sought to kill. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICYMI last night: The Trump administration ordered another power plant to remain operational by invoking emergency powers for a second time, a day before the facility in Pennsylvania was scheduled to close. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Among cancelled projects are hundreds of millions for an Exxon hydrogen project, clean cement, and Kraft’s “delicious decarbonization” initiative. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Senate voted to block a California program banning gasoline-powered cars and other vehicles by 2035, sending the measure to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tax incentives for clean electricity production are set to end years earlier then initially proposed in a new version of the giant tax and spending bill released by House Republicans on Wednesday night. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Moderate House Republicans are in talks with leadership to make changes to the GOP’s plan to cut clean energy tax credits. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Clean energy projects that have supply-chain links to China - including critical minerals- could see their tax credits ended earlier if they can’t meet complex rules in the GOP tax plan. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Key Senate Republicans are resisting the House’s plan to gut clean energy tax credits, vowing to soften the blow for emerging technologies. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EV makers and buyers, solar-shopping homeowners, the nuclear power sector and hydrogen producers are among the biggest losers in GOP plan to cut $560B in tax credits. w/ @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

House Republicans are proposing to eliminate a tax credit for electric vehicles and phase out incentives for the production of clean energy to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive tax package. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICYMI last night: House Republicans plan to help pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts by clawing back parts of the Inflation Reduction Act. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICYMI last night: House Republicans have added a plan to raise billions of dollars to help pay for US President Donald Trump’s massive tax cuts through the sale of thousands of acres of federal land. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Republicans in the US House are more likely than not to kill a consumer tax credit for electric vehicles, Speaker Mike Johnson said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his agency doesn’t plan to move forward with billions of dollars worth of Biden-era loans as the Trump administration reviews the department’s $400 billion-strong green bank. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...