A cool honor, my @nytimes essays won first place for column writing from the North American Agricultural Journalists. Also Story of the Year! www.naaj.net/2026-naaj-wr...

Workshopping more oppo: The pope only cares about thee/thou. The pope literally drives around in a bubble. The pope thinks he's infallible. The immigrant pope is letting foreigners invade the Vatican.

Climate hawks and climate realists and everyone who cares about the climate ought to embrace the Al Davis strategy: Just win, baby. libertiesjournal.com/articles/cli...

Can confirm! @sentientmedia.org sentientmedia.org/how-does-agr...

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I wrote the lead essay in the new Liberties Journal about climate policy and politics in the Trump era. The orange man is very bad. But the climate movement hasn’t always faced the implications of his badness.

What I've learned about regulation from covering energy, ag, environment and a little finance: It's really important to set measurable standards that industry is required to meet and it's really dumb to micromanage how industry should meet them.

These all-electric self-driving AI-powered tractors seemed pretty cool and investors gave this CEO $250M but I’m glad I decided to wait on the story because Monarch Tractors just folded. Ag-tech is tough!

Obviously not the worst part of this, but as a domestic policy dork who wrote a lot about Trump’s bogus first-term “Infrastructure Weeks” that never built any infrastructure, it is really enraging to watch him call his plan to destroy bridges and power plants “Infrastructure Day.”

I’d like a president who doesn’t start crazy wars or threaten to wipe out civilizations. I’m even willing to support a candidate who disagrees with my policy inclinations about electric vehicle subsidies and high school sports rules if that’s what it takes!

Florida Plunder and Loot is a regulated monopoly, so it keeps its profits higher than any other electric utility’s by buying off its Republican regulators. insideclimatenews.org/news/0304202...

The earth is really nice. It’s the only planet with pizza and reliable wi-fi and breathable air. We should do a better job taking care of it and of each other.

The earth is really nice. It’s the only planet with pizza and reliable wi-fi and breathable air. We should do a better job taking care of it and of each other.

Fun fact: The Obama financial reform law that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect Americans from scams (until Trump gutted it) had a carveout exempting scams committed by car dealers.

Rich countries need to eat less beef.

Gasoline now $4 and heading higher. Good time to get an EV! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

We’re stopping their nukes we’re taking their oil we’re changing their regime we’re demanding unconditional surrender ok maybe just open the strait that was open before ok never mind

Tomorrow evening! There’s no snow in Colorado, I’m starting to think climate change might be real.

My comfort zone is pointing out things that are true. Your comfort zone seems to be whining about me while following me.

Great stuff from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social, as always. "You can save real money while doing a small part to help stabilize the climate, defund Big Oil and even reduce the risk of future conflicts in fossil-fueled nations like Iran and Venezuela." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

Mark Carney approval rating is 68% in Canada. But it’s only 6.8% on Bluesky which is what really matters. cultmtl.com/2026/03/mark...

VAIL! Climate change is ruining ski season but consolation prize, I’ll be in town Tuesday evening 3/31 to talk about the food part of the problem. Tickets here: vailsymposium.org/speaker/mich...

This Michael Flynn settlement sets an outrageous and terrifying precedent. But if the new rule is that a president can give as much government money as he wants to anyone who sues the government, well, I have some ideas for the next president. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is a good message from Project Drawdown and @globalecoguy.bsky.social, it’s the message of my book, but as absurdly passionate as I am about the insanity of biofuels, the bulk of the problem is meat, mostly ruminant meat.

Yes, now is a perfect time to buy an EV (if you need a new car). Also, a good summation paragraph by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. NYT Gift Article. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

Can confirm, and can also confirm that it’s often ignored.

"What we don’t seem to have," @mikegrunwald.bsky.social writes, "is a sense that we’re all in this together, that we should all try to do our part for energy security, national security and the health of the planet."

Listen to @mikegrunwald.bsky.social! Buying an EV isn't just a smart economic & practical decision, it is also, in a small way, a vote for leaving fossil fuels -- and their endless wars -- behind.

On further review, the most insane policies I've ever seen: 1 Pardoning all J6ers 2 Paying Total $1B not to make clean energy 3 RFK vaccine stuff 4 Iraq war 5 Parks free on Trump bday, not MLK's 6 Biofuels provisions in OBBB 7 Trump war on research 8 Publicly funded NFL stadiums What did I miss?

Trump is paying a foreign company $1B not to produce clean energy. I think this might be the most insane public policy I’ve ever seen. www.eenews.net/articles/int...

"Our government used to recognize this. It called on patriots to join car pools to save gas during World War II, with posters declaring that “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler!” "

What can I say… m.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFA...

One complaint I'm seeing a lot about my latest @nytimes.com piece is that I attacked a straw man, that enviros never tell us not to worry about our individual actions. OK then! Here's a 🧵with some of my favorite examples.

Important piece via @mikegrunwald.bsky.social: "Nobody’s really stopping you from buying electric vehicles, installing solar panels or using less fuel. ... [Trump] he isn’t forcing you to drive a massive S.U.V. to the mall, and neither is Exxon." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

Its become weirdly uncool to say so, but when you drive a gas car, you ride with Putin and the mullahs and Big Oil. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

Yes, the headline is about getting an EV, but the main point of my @nytimes.com essay is that individuals have all kinds of power to drive change. It’s not only about Trump and Exxon. It’s about you. Better is better than worse, and you can choose better. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

A year and a half ago, when i needed a car, @mikegrunwald.bsky.social’s writing convinced me to buy an EV. I love it.

Just saying. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

This is heartbreaking. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

This is a huge mess, even worse than the phony forest credits. Carbon markets can be a super-valuable tool for unfucking the climate but not until someone unfucks the carbon markets.

South Florida is in its worst drought since 2000; the Everglades is getting screwed while Big Sugar is getting all the water it needs. I told the story of 2000 at the end of THE SWAMP, p. 353, this is deja vu all over again. @foreverglades.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

DELRAY BEACH! (Or really anyone in South Florida.) I'll be in town Thursday evening to talk about THE SWAMP. It's 20 years old, and I am old old old. Here's a link to register: delraybeachhistory.org/events/herit...

What? Paul Ehrllcg’s Malthusian ideas weren’t “premature.” They were wrong! They’re not just rejected by conservatives. They’re rejected by people who are serious about feeding the world without destroying the earth. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

The corn lobby wants to put more ethanol in our tanks now that gas prices are high, but more ethanol means higher food prices. That’s the whole point - to increase grain prices, to shovel more of your money to farmers.

Oh look it’s the second greatest scorer in history warming up. #NBASky

Update: I now have a six-point plan to lower food prices. 1. Stop the war.

There are no factual errors in this story. It never claims there’s good scientific evidence that glyphosate is dangerous, because there isn’t. It just implies danger in every paragraph. www.circleofblue.org/2026/agricul...

Everyone is like "see, Trump actually screws farmers," but he'll just bail them out with billions of dollars of our money like he did after his tariffs. They don't get screwed; we get screwed.

Today at a pretty well-known Miami restaurant I chomped on a broken piece of plate in my salad. It didn't break my tooth but it did spark a discussion of whether RFK might try to put plate on top of the next food pyramid.