Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

"The admin. is rushing to deposit the IEEPA tariff revenue into the U.S. Treasury as part of an apparent bid to make it more difficult for companies to obtain refunds if the administration loses before the Supreme Court." @timlmeyer.bsky.social talks tariff plays. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We can’t fix our democracy without fixing our media crisis. Deregulation, disinvestment, and disregard for press freedom are all policy choices—@bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social, & @victorpickard.bsky.social explain the need to reverse course on all three fronts. https://bit.ly/4rUvr01

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"The Biden Hall and the Biden library are separate projects, competing for the same pool of donors. But many loyalists say they hope that the library could be housed inside the hall, turning two projects into one." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Good on Jared Golden, Ds and 20 GOP for their discharge petition to restore government workers' collective bargaining rights. Will the supposed GOP Senate populists join in? www.politico.com/live-updates...

Mexico follows the US and Canada in limiting Chinese EVs and other imports. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

4/ (Of course, this started before the Roberts Court—Congress gave itself the legislative veto as a check; the Court gave us the unconstrained executive in Chadha. See papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... )

GM - the bigger importer among the Big Three - praises Section 232 tariffs. www.thestreet.com/automotive/g...

Companies receiving equity infusions outperforming the S&P500. @joeldodge07.bsky.social offers thoughts on why. www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/i...

Good explainer by Kevin Brunelli and Tom Moerenhout at @columbiauenergy.bsky.social on the varying reasons for the recent deals for MP Materials, Trilogy Metals, and Lithium Americas - and how they match up with similar Trump I / Biden efforts. www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/qa-how-the-u...

Boeing thinks Trump won't take equity stakes in major defense industry companies (i.e. "The primes"). www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Looks like SCOTUS conservatives are warming to a view that one-way delegation of power is unconstitutional post-Chadha. @joshchafetz.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

One step forward, two steps back in the EU. @alicemhancock.bsky.social reports how the bloc is adding downstream sectors that must pay CBAM. But, they're also cutting back on company climate plans and Buy Europe. www.ft.com/content/4826... www.ft.com/content/b33b... www.ft.com/content/10b7...

Well that’s refreshing.

Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.

China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

Finally someone has the courage to say it

After just 9 months, solar installations in the US have already set a new record, and this doesn't include rooftop www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g...

"Ironically, the first thing many parents do, according to an Ikea executive, is cut off the labels whose contents are designed in part to cut waste — creating more waste."

- @richardmilne.ft.com also writes today in a column about the super-rich who move for tax, and then move again - and how protests over the Swiss referendum on inheritance tax showed how readily some would consider their options for relocation www.ft.com/content/ca43...

"Though operating as private companies free to make their own investment decisions, Temasek and GIC are kept on a tight leash by the government. Both are wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance, which is run by Wong in addition to his role as prime minister." www.ft.com/content/2171...

“If the market were to pivot towards plug-in hybrids in 2035 in Europe, it will still fall into the hands of the Chinese.” Chinese EVs face a 45% tariff in the EU, plug ins do not. www.ft.com/content/8c95...

A sneak preview of the EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act, which those working on it have branded the “Draghi Law” and playing China at its own game: as.ft.com/r/6d692171-3...

Greer: "we’ve been thinking about this plan for five years or longer... IEEPA is the most appropriate because there is an emergency with the trade deficit and the loss of manufacturing... if I were Congress, I would codify it." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

US government to become largest shareholder in Pat Gelsinger's chip company (former Intel CEO) "XLight plans to build massive “free electron lasers” powered by a particle accelerator to create a more powerful and precise light source for use in chip fabrication plants". www.wsj.com/tech/trump-a...

Corporate groups call for rolling back Section 232 tariffs on Canada and Mexico. “Compliance means ensuring a restoration of the USMCA’s duty-free access." subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

Ayanna Pressley will not run for Senate (but will seek reelection instead), leaving Markey and Moulton in the Senate primary: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/n...

with an Asfura government it will be a huge challenge for Berta Caceres' family, friends and movement to obtain the justice she deserves, the same with many other environmental and human rights defender in the country.

Companies drown in 3,000 hours of paperwork and spend up to €85,000 to tap EU climate funds. Another example of Europe’s competitiveness problem. on.ft.com/4pIpGAA

The US endorsed a candidate of a given party, freed a former candidate of that party from US prisons, and is now interfering in the counting of votes after the election. @judewebber.bsky.social on how the US can't seem to stop interfering with Honduras' democracy. www.ft.com/content/632d...

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*

May be seeing the end of an iconic European steel company. www.ft.com/content/2fec...

I don't know how you rebuild DOJ after this. You would need some type of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and lawyers will rightly feel that participating puts a target on their back when control of government flips again. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." @katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

A sign of how badly the steel sector has gotten out of whack that ideas that would have been controversial a year ago are now seen as viable. France's lower house votes to nationalize ArcelorMittal, just months after the US took a golden share in US Steel. www.ft.com/content/b1fb...

"As housing affordability deteriorates, those who come to believe they are locked out of home ownership resort to a mixture of high-risk bets and what US economic commentator Demetri Kofinas calls “financial nihilism"”, writes @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/c17a...

Debates over economic sovereignty could imperil US-Indonesia trade deal, as US loyalty clauses would limit Indonesia's ability to engage with China. These are controversial in Malaysia, which just signed a deal with loyalty clauses. www.ft.com/content/64d2...

These constant whipsaw changes in patrol patterns in DC are not making district residents safer. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

While some states are getting cold feet on climate policy, Oregon is doubling down, seeking to reduce bottlenecks and speed deployment: www.eenews.net/articles/ore...

German society has done everything to try to root big industrials like VW in the fabric of their country, and yet the company still responds to the pull of lower labor costs abroad (and more developed supply chains). www.ft.com/content/b772...

No matter how SCOTUS rules, "tariffs are going to be a part of this administration's national security and national economic protection of the American people," said Lutnick, citing options of Sections 232, 301 and 338 if justices rule against IEEPA tariffs. www.foxbusiness.com/politics/lut...

"If business-as-usual policies worked, America would not be reliant on foreign countries for critical minerals, semiconductors and other products that are key for our national and economic security." @anaswanson.bsky.social goes deep on the new state capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

In a recession, policymakers should prioritize: ✔️direct, robust stimulus for families ✔️direct and flexible aid for state and local governments ✔️experimentation with economic policy Zehra Khan on the historical lessons to guide a future recovery: https://bit.ly/3XNuZ5y