🔔 Check out @canarymedia.com’s “Chart of the week” column by @danmccarthy.bsky.social featuring our newest Siting Solutions Project legislative insight report co-authored by Nelson Falkenburg. 📍Click on the link to read the full column

California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social

Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. It’s the only tactic that appears to work against the Trump administration’s crusades. Now, the Danish are giving it a go. My latest on the Revolution Wind saga: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

When you cover a field in solar panels, you don’t cover everything. And in a warming world, that leftover shaded space is invaluable, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

NEW: Trump's DOE has re-upped an emergency order forcing an oil and gas power plant to stay online, one week after renewing a similar directive for a coal plant. It's the latest signal that Trump is committed to blocking all fossil-fueled power plants closures. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

And despite it all… solar plants are still be built at record speed in America. For now. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

My story about Revolution Wind dropped. Trump just halted construction of the offshore wind farm due to "national security." NEW: Navy, Army Corps, and Coast Guard raised "no major military issues" during a 2009-2015 federal task force that sited Rev Wind where it's now being built, says insider.

DOI's "capacity density" metric uses fossil fuel cheerleaders' talking points to erect more barriers to solar and wind. Critics say it's an "absurd metric" and "red herring." @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/lan...

The Trump admin is forcing a Michigan coal plant slated to close this year to keep running through November. Critics say it's part of a broader plan to use emergency powers to keep dirty and expensive fossil fuel power plants running, no matter the cost www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

💴 “‘Come to America and lose a billion dollars’ should be the headline of your article.” 👇 my latest www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Webinar alert! Join @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ for a conversation on renewables’ rise — and challenges — with Canary’s @alisontakemura.bsky.social‬ on Aug. 27:

UPDATE: 🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B. 😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

Join @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ and @alisontakemura.bsky.social‬ on Aug. 27 for a live online discussion of how solar and wind power became mainstream — and how to overcome the headwinds threatening their progress with @Sundayofaction.bsky.social:

The Trump administration has terminated Solar for All. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims the “big beautiful bill” authorizes clawback of $7B in contracted funds — a claim that Sen. Moore Capito (R) has called "ridiculous." Cue the court challenges: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

This chart. Damn. And I've heard not a peep from the GOP lawmakers who went to all those ribbon cutting ceremonies at the factories. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... (chart by @danmccarthy.bsky.social)

Very cool: @motherjones.com has republished the scoop in my newsletter yesterday about the a top regulator resigning from the NRC. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My new column for @canarymedia.com kinda sums up what I’ve learned over 20 years of climate reporting. It’s about what the transformation of the (fucked up but improving) energy sector can teach us about the (fucked up and not improving) food/ag/land sector. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

A new investigation by @kmkowalski.bsky.social and @canarymedia.com, with documents obtained by Fieldnotes, reveals a coordinated effort by oil lobbyists to write and introduce carbon capture and storage legislation. www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

REAP has been an economic lifeline for U.S. farmers for two decades, helping them save on energy and make money from solar. The Trump administration has thrown the program into chaos — including by abruptly canceling a planned application window on July 1. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Energy experts say DOE's report claiming 100x increase in blackout risk by 2030 dramatically undercounts the new energy — clean and dirty — that can be added to the grid by then. Why? to back Trump's push to force fossil fuel power plants to stay open: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

Last week, the Department of Energy issued a report that energy analysts agree is designed to push Trump's pro-coal agenda — and which experts say relies on dubious math to reach its conclusions. @jeffstjohn.bsky.social has the details: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

This year, $2.2 trillion will be invested in clean energy, efficiency, and electrification globally, double the $1.1 trillion that will flow toward fossil fuels. It's a remarkable change from a decade ago, but still not enough, @danmccarthy.bsky.social writes: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Geothermal energy was largely spared in Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which made deep cuts to incentives for wind, solar & residential projects. But developers of the heat-driven energy source may still face difficulties ahead due. Me for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

Offshore wind has faced mounting hurdles this year: new tariffs, a federal permitting pause, higher investment risk, and the threat of the Trump halting projects mid construction. For planned wind farms that haven’t yet broken ground, the “big, beautiful” bill was the final nail in the coffin. 🧵

The “Big, Beautiful” bill just doomed the future of Maryland’s first offshore wind farm. It was supposed break ground next year. As one analyst told me: “We don’t predict any new offshore wind projects starting construction…at least in the next four years.” 👇 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

In @canarymedia.com this morning explaining, once again, why the OBBBA is *not* a win for geothermal energy. Thanks, FEOC. Thanks @mariagallucci.bsky.social for this great piece highlighting how the GOP might be holding back this promising new technology:

Thanks to @jeffstjohn.bsky.social for featuring me and CPE in this great dive into the reconciliation bill's unworkable FEOC rules!

Once again: the fossil fuel industry wants energy prices to be high. The Republican Party is in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. And thus, they are celebrating the passage of a big ugly bill that will cause your energy prices to go up. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Wrote about Trump's big, beautiful law and how it dismantles not only U.S. climate policy, but its most effective industrial policy, too. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Senate Republicans are pushing a tax cut bill that would undermine billions of dollars of clean energy investment, kill jobs, drive up energy prices and add a new 'tax' on solar and wind so ugly that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Elon Musk oppose it: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

Fishermen & offshore wind firms have a tense relationship, mainly based on the fishers' unfounded fears. But with more fishers now seeing wind development as a way to supplement their incomes, Trump is trying to kill it. Nice piece from @fieseler.bsky.social via @canarymedia.com & @motherjones.com

Meet Captain Jack Morris and Kevin Souza. They are scallopers. They voted for Trump. They work for offshore wind companies part time because times are tough. They opened up to me about what’s at stake for them if Trump crushes offshore wind. My latest 👇 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From Minnesota’s trailblazing community solar program to the flurry of laws adopted during Democrats’ 2023 trifecta, Hortman had a hand in passing some of the country’s most ambitious, consequential state-level clean energy policy. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

I have a new story out in @theatlantic.com this morning. This piece looks at the Trump administration's rollback of energy efficiency policies and the risk that poses when the U.S. is trying to shore up its grid to power electrification and AI. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I have a new story up this morning on @canarymedia.com: The $3.7 billion in funding the Energy Department just canceled for industrial projects is a "big blow" to clean heat -- which made up 25% of the cuts. "It’s hard to overstate the scale of the loss." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

I wrote about Biden’s deeply flawed approach to climate-smart agriculture, and how it was way better than Trump’s flagrantly climate-dumb approach. @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

"Sublime Systems told Canary Media that the company was ​'surprised and disappointed' by DOE’s decision to cut its grant. Sublime this week announced a deal with Microsoft, which said it would buy 600,000 tons of the low-carbon cement from the startup..." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

News: The Trump admin has canceled $3.7B in Biden-era grants for industrial decarbonization that aimed to clean up the production of everything from cement to mac and cheese. @jeffstjohn.bsky.social has the full list: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

I've got a new exclusive in the newsletter this morning: Geothermal startup Eavor just hit a milestone with its in-house tech that allows the company dig as deep as 20 Empire State Buildings down, shaving "tens of millions of dollars" off drilling costs. kaufman.substack.com/p/geothermal...

The Trump admin has acted on its threat to use emergency power to keep coal plants open even if utilities and grid operators know they're safe to close. Its first target — a Michigan coal plant set to close on May 31 after years of planning: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... #energysky

Have you heard about the 5 month saga between Trump and an offshore wind farm that refused to die? Here it is, the full blow by blow: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

The Trump administration will allow New York's Empire Wind project to proceed after halting it in April and pushing the offshore wind project close to collapse. Here's the timeline of Empire Wind's near-death experience, from @fieseler.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

And don't miss the written version of Kari's reporting from Decatur, which details how the program is helping Decatur residents jump into careers in everything from HVAC to solar installation. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Can clean energy help bring jobs to rural America? For a new series with Rural News Network, Canary Media's Kari Lydersen traveled to Decatur, Illinois to find out — the video below details what she found.

Decatur, Illinois, has been losing jobs for years. Now, a clean energy workforce hub promises renewal. Kari Lydersen reports from the central Illinois city for the first in a five-part series from Rural News Network on clean energy jobs. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

No one has been able to tell me why the Department of Interior freely gave a FoxNews reporter a NOAA study about “faked science” done by Biden Admin —- but they are denying it to a sitting U.S. senator and their own top-level staff. 👀 More about that here: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

*NEW* Its 5pm on a Friday but my scoop is worth reading if you care about science, NOAA, or clean energy. The U.S. Secretary of Interior’s staff are calling “bullshit” on his attempts to claim a NOAA report found “faked science” about a wind farm that Trump wants scuttled but is already 30% done.🧵

“Nobody’s seen this report,” an Interior Department employee told me, requesting anonymity to speak freely. “My personal opinion is that it’s all bullshit.” A NEW scoop from me.👇 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... #offshorewind