Climate denialists claimed victory when the Trump administration published an unprecedented report reliant on decades of debunked claims. The administration just proved it has no confidence their work could withstand scrutiny in a legal fight over climate regulations www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Here are my stories about how the last Trump EPA didn't end but *saved* the endangerment finding I cite lots of #FOIA docs www.eenews.net/articles/tru... www.eenews.net/articles/ins... Of course, many of these people are now serving in this Trump admin — which just axed the finding #FOIA4eva

Greenhouse gases stopped being harmful at 1:30 pm EST on Thursday, February 12, 2026. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Trump claims people are "dying" because of the endangerment finding and the way it restricted air conditioning and fossil fuels. Which, of course, is not reality.

I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy. And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.! www.eenews.net/articles/Her....

Months ago, during the first government shutdown, a source suggested I take a look at how small federal contractors were being affected. I started making calls and quickly realized that this story went beyond the shutdown — some of these folks had been losing money all year. 1/

Florida's DOGE team is now using the misleading DOE climate report to attack government spending on infrastructure, EVs, mass transit and more in one of the most climate-vulnerable states. www.eenews.net/articles/flo.... From me and @adamaton.bsky.social

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

I love it when a plan comes together

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Trump is speaking in Iowa now, starting with a claim that cold weather means global warming is not real. @adamaton.bsky.social and I wrote about how Iowa, which receives 2/3 of its power from wind and has low utility bills, is a powerful argument for clean energy. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

This is another example of the Trump administration's desire to control the natural resources of other countries. Alberta is a center of Canada's oil and gas industry.

Trump is, once again, repeating lies about wind turbines. China, in fact, has twice the wind and solar capacity of any country in the world. Energy Secretary Chris Wright certainly knows this fact.

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Trump just said if he does not "take over" Greenland, Russia and China will do so. He said "we will doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the hard way." He said US must "own" Greenland because otherwise it's like a rental or lease.

Trump just said that his goal is not to approve any more "windmills" during his next three years in office. He then falsely claims that all wind turbines are made in China and that they only last 8 years. He said he has ordered Interior Secretary Burgum not approve any more wind turbines whatsoever.

Today's story with @saraschonhardt.bsky.social on the implications of Trump's stated intent to withdraw from the IPCC (which has been the de facto situation for most of the past year) and how some organizations are stepping up to fill in the gaps. www.eenews.net/articles/the...

Will Justice Alito recuse from court cases related to climate regulations and the fossil fuel industry? Will he recuse from the EPA's attempt to roll back the endangerment finding, which is likely to be the subject of litigation that reaches the Supreme Court?

As the Trump considered deposing Maduro in his first term, officials consulted with the oil industry, former National Security Advisor John Bolton told me. Bolton said Trump has never planned for what comes next. “There’s no Plan B because there’s no plan A." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

The Trump administration is preparing to write its own National Climate Assessment, the gold-standard science report that tracks how climate change is transforming the US. Authors could include Grok + researchers who produced the misleading Department of Energy report. www.eenews.net/articles/its...

Trump has long claimed he wants to seize oil from other countries as a result of US military intervention, stating at one point that "to the victor belong the spoils." That would be a war crime, but Venezuela may be Trump's first chance to test the world on the issue. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump just said this: "Within the next 12 months, we will have opened 1600 new electrical generating plants, a record. And it's a record that won't be beaten by practically, I would say, by anybody, or certainly not." That's not even on the same planet as reality.

The problem for Trump is that the US government doesn't drill for oil and Big Oil generally doesn't think its worth investing in Venezuela right now: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump wants Venezuela to "return" its own oil and land to the US?

presenting: “i90” live for the first time featuring @brosaleigh.bsky.social when i first wrote this tune, it was for a world where trans folks one day were losing healthcare and rights across the country i did not think that world would come so soon this is the definitive performance of the song

As Trump ramps up US attacks on Venezuela, it's worth noting that the country has the world's largest proven oil reserves, ahead of Saudi Arabia and the US and Russia combined. An escalation there will benefit oil majors as well as Russia. www.eenews.net/articles/5-r...

This is a wild, wild story and suggests that a top DOD official is coordinating with the Pizzagate guy to dox a reporter and his family, including his in-laws.

the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace

The CEOs of both Ford and Stellantis, who are there to celebrate the rollback of vehicle emissions standards (which will drive climate change), are standing right behind Trump as he makes these racist comments.

NEW: A billionaire-backed global cooling startup is a few years away from potentially seeding the stratosphere with sunlight-reflecting particles. This is the inside story of how Stardust is developing planet-altering tech that it hopes to sell to the US government. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Ex-EPA officials I spoke to remember past administrators avoiding trips during shutdowns Lee Zeldin went a different route — going to 11 states and Canada, recording 16 days for travel since this lapse's start on Oct. 1 "Not a good look," said an agency staffer www.eenews.net/articles/zel...

NEW: At least three GOP lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that'll expire in January due to Trump’s megalaw, E&E News has found. They all support ending the perk that sliced thousands of dollars off the cost of installing their panels. www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

Ahead of midterms, climate policy has become a wedge issue splitting Democrats. After last week's electoral victories, some Democrats will only talk about expanding clean energy through lens of affordability. Others believe talking about climate change will win voters. www.eenews.net/articles/ret...

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

My latest on how the Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown also impact hospitals' resilience to climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/hos...

Anybody know if a University of Chicago economist who wasn't even in the government at the time wrote almost half of the regulatory impact analysis for EPA's endangerment/car rules draft repeal? Because it sure looks like he did. Signal jchemnick.01. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

Every oil state disposes of toxic wastewater underground. But in Oklahoma, it hasn't been staying there, creating large, ongoing pollution events known as "purges." An investigation a year in the making for @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org www.readfrontier.org/stories/toxi...

Conservative groups are working the White House, Homeland Security, DOJ to go after prominent environmental organizations. It's part of an effort to link progressive groups to Antifa, despite the lack of evidence. Stripping away nonprofit status is only 1st step. www.eenews.net/articles/gre...

SCOOP from me: I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built. Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

“These are not political people,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said of the DOE report authors. But 4 of the 5 have spoken out against the endangerment finding and 3 have ties to groups that employ/promote critics of climate action. @scottpwaldman.bsky.social today: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Trump's climate science report was crafted by researchers who are anything but "independent" since they are longtime climate policy critics and have been affiliated with conservative groups funded by fossil fuel companies. That could cost the administration in court. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

As a parent of teens, I'm worried that my own sanity will shatter like glass on a tile floor if I have to hear this damn phrase again.

Tensions are rising between Energy Sec. Chris Wright & the WH over a series of political missteps and policy disputes. w/ @benlefebvre.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Energy Secretary Wright and Interior Secretary Burgum have both cited "pollution" from offshore wind turbines as one of the reasons they need to be scrutinized or shut down.

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

Energy Secretary Wright made tens of millions of dollars as the CEO of a fracking company, so he certainly knows that the natural gas he brought to market is the primary cause of the decline of the coal industry.

Scott, Ben & I went through the entire report line by line to understand the types of tactics the authors use. The examples in our final project are prime illustrations of how this document misleads, manipulates and obscures. Proud to see this story published and proud to work with this badass team.

Ben Storrow, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I are out with a different look at the misleading Trump administration climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome.