NEWS: The White House wants big tech companies to commit to a data center compact to ensure data centers do not raise household electricity prices, strain water supplies or undermine grid reliability. w/ @jasonplautz.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Scoop by @benlefebvre.bsky.social, @zcolman.bsky.social and James Bikales: Trump has a use-it-or-lose-it demand for oil companies thinking of returning to #Venezuela: They go back in NOW, and spend billions of $, or forget about compensation for their seized assets. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

More signs the Trump administration is leaning into regime change for Venezuela. It's trying to entice U.S. oil companies that were pushed out years ago to go back in. Scoopy stuff here from @benlefebvre.bsky.social @sophiacai.bsky.social and jbikales.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

'The boys are fighting' --> Scoopy stuff on tensions inside the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in clean energy cuts. From Politico's @sophiacai.bsky.social and @benlefebvre.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The Trump administration says renewable power drives up electricity costs. @zcolman.bsky.social and @catherineaallen.bsky.social ran the numbers. Here's what they found: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In case you're wondering what the National Academies of Sciences thinks about climate change, @alexguillen.bsky.social breaks down the new report released today. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Good read from @alexguillen.bsky.social, who spoke to groups whose climate funding was cut by Trump's EPA: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

ICYMI: Solar and wind energy projects must now get Interior Sec. Doug Burgum’s personal sign-off to receive permits across the hundreds of millions of federal acres under his control, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO. @zcolman.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

They know they're doing illegal shit.

SCOOP: EPA's own legal team was raising red flags about their challenge to Biden's climate spending. EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email politi.co/44CMZnS via @politico

The legal fight over releasing the Biden administration climate and infrastructure funding takes another step forward... www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

With all that's going on, my story on the Trump administration's actions contributing to a science brain drain didn't make it outside the paywall. But I thought this portion on how it's affecting international students & interest was worth sharing. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

I recently received an e-mail from a Canadian university I'm affiliated with containing 3 lengthy attachments advising that "Canadian university researchers are advised to be extra careful when traveling to US," discussing recommended safety precautions and advice re cancelled collaboration funding.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

SCOOP: Trump canceled funding for the US Global Change Research Program, imperiling the sweeping federal government National Climate Assessment climate study due by 2027. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

The Wisconsin elections should have nothing to do with Tesla’s awful sales numbers. But Elon Musk’s companies and his politics now exist in self-made symbiosis, says @liamdenning.bsky.social 🎥

The latest in the saga over the climate spending the Trump EPA is trying to claw back, courtesy of @alexguillen.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

R.I.P Rob McChesney. He was a trenchant critic who saw corporate & commercial media as corrosive to democracy. I admired how his analysis & polemics were grounded in an intimate understanding of the history, structure & power--the political economy--of media. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now. "The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money." www.politico.com/news/2025/03... 🔌💡

Plus a couple more this evening ...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump EPA move to claw back $20B in climate grants. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington” Feinman wrote. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

New REPEAT Project report: repealing federal tax credits and regs supporting deployment of electric vehicles would slow sales and threaten the economic viability of dozens of manufacturing projects taking shape across the country. zenodo.org/records/1500... 🔌💡

the irony of slapping tariffs on Canadian crude oil and then wanting to move ahead with a pipeline to allow more Canadian oil to flow AWAY from the United States. amazing. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

@jessedjenkins.com Story is now public here: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Republicans are stating to find parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that they plan to save. And they're getting bolder about it: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

NEW: A group that received a $2B climate grant is spending $539 million — even as EPA tries to claw back those funds. I spoke w/ Power Forward Communities’ CEO about the plan to use Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $ for energy efficient housing. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

If Trump levies tariffs on Canadian oil, it would raise gasoline prices across the Midwest while absolutely wrecking the economics of US oil refineries. (So it does seem unlikely.) I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/tru...

All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live. All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly). The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC. It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.

This is too good #EnergySky

Trump promised to overhaul Biden's energy and climate policies, and he wants to set up a new energy council to lead the charge. But that's already running into some ... issues. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge boost for clean energy – and updating permitting rules is crucial to unlock its potential. But it comes with a price: an easier path for 'drill, baby, drill.' @politico.com’s Josh Siegel with the state of play: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...