The US energy industry faces new uncertainty after the #Trump administration upended the landmark 2009 endangerment #climate rule. Legal experts disagree over how and when sectors beyond vehicles will be affected — the courts will tell. tinyurl.com/48cmym3a

#Climate science was absent from the #Trump administration's plan to gut US greenhouse gas policies. The EPA instead focused on legal arguments seeking to reinterpret a section of the Clean Air Act it says was used illegally for 16 years -- hoping the Supreme Court will agree. tinyurl.com/2trhaf3j

The #Trump administration will face an onslaught of legal challenges after the agency charged with protecting public health and welfare dismantles the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. tinyurl.com/mr2n9737

The #Trump administration faces its first industry challenge over coal plant orders that are upending utility plans and violating state laws. tinyurl.com/ba5pr8ec

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There are no words.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison this afternoon: “…just as Portland and Chicago and LA were precursors to Minneapolis, Minneapolis is a precursor to a whole lot of other places.”

In best Gestapo style, ICE agents murder yet another person in Minnesota, while pepperspraying protesters in -8 F temperatures. We must all help to put an end to this government-sanctioned violence. How can we help??

Email correspondence shows how a disputed and litigated 2025 DOE climate report was crafted and used to support the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding. The repeal would halt future efforts to regulate climate-warming emissions. tinyurl.com/mwvrbuvh

Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Davos: “If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.”

A line for European leaders struggling to get organized around a cohesive message and course of action?

Virginia is rejoining the RGGI carbon market as @governorva.bsky.social Abigail Spanberger resets the state’s energy agenda. tinyurl.com/42wkz3er

This breaks my heart. I never ever thought the country I fell in love with and adopted as my own would treat people like this. This poor man, I read, is a US citizen. If it happens to him, it could happen to me. Because we’re immigrants. Or because we talk or look ”different.”

Heja Danmark! 💪

Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said Greenland would choose Denmark, NATO and the EU over a US invasion. According to the AP, Trump later said: “I disagree with him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know anything about him. But, that’s going to be a big problem for him.” 🤔

The Trump administration could face some major legal hurdles as it seeks to halt federal regulation of climate-warming greenhouse gases. The EPA endangerment repeal is going through final White House review and could be pushlished soon. tinyurl.com/y3axt2n8

We need more Jerome Powells in our country. Who else is out there, willing to defend our eroding democracy, data and the rule of law?

“When Donald Trump says, ‘We’re going to run the place,’ I want you to think of the Gambino family taking over the Colombo family’s business out in Queens,” he said. “They don’t actually go out and run it. They just get an envelope.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

Looks like this data was quietly updated in the fall for the latest numbers through 2024 - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) produced by NOAA... It is now up to a 54% increase in the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since 1990 (AGGI = 1.54; heat trapping)

“This order will pass tens of millions in costs to Colorado ratepayers, in order to keep a coal plant open that is broken and not needed," Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said of the lastest DOE “emergency” order. tinyurl.com/3b5rncbh

The US Department of Interior no longer mentions climate-warming methane leaking from orphaned wells. But the agency is once again offering federal grants to seal such wells. It’s a rare federal climate program to survive in 2025. tinyurl.com/nhks484e

US coal plant operators get a 5-year reprieve from Biden-era regulations seeking to limit wastewater discharges carrying arsenic, mercury and other toxins into drinking water sources. Just in time for the holidays. tinyurl.com/3f4tvpxa

You force 317,000 federal workers out the door and — ooops! — unemployment creeps up. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Look for more unpaid power bills and service shut-offs as US energy costs soar. Average residential electricity costs have risen 32% since 2020, S&P Global data shows. #affordability tinyurl.com/tjtbpnes

Amazing — Congress finally did the right thing. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

The bill to reopen the US government could avoid further furloughs at already-struggling energy and environmental agencies. It would also delay layoffs, at least for a little while. Our take on today's big story in DC. tinyurl.com/d6v4afhj

The Trump administration wants to eliminate a greenhouse gas reporting program covering large US emitters. Companies warn the proposal will hurt US exports and raise business costs. An investor said it could erode “market confidence in US companies.” tinyurl.com/mr4cew5y

Seems we don’t!

Montgomery County, Maryland, today announced a package of nearly $8 million for food assistance and other services to help people get by. Since the Trump administration would rather Americans go hungry than release emergency funds during the shutdown. www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapp...

The US Department of Energy said a Michigan coal plant and Pennsylvania gas units had to continue to operate past their May 31 retirement to avoid blackouts. Our data shows the plants have been of limited use at best, while adding tens of millions to your power bills. tinyurl.com/2ww5kbad

Renewables deal flow is ramping back up, but developers and financiers remain apprehensive about the longer-term fallout from disappearing wind and solar incentives. My latest: 🔌💡 www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

“As Washington has left friends and foes grappling with how to respond to its volley of tariffs and insults, China presents itself as a serious country with predictable, consistent policies.”

2025 has seen a significant drop in "high-priority violations" that the EPA issues under the Clean Air Act, suggesting that companies are getting a break. Such violations involve pollution that can endanger public health. tinyurl.com/b8prn5py

The Trump administration's plan to rescind the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding is fraught with legal risks for oil and gas companies hoping for a regulatory break. As of this morning, EPA staff had logged 351,300 public comments on the controversial proposal. tinyurl.com/mrxvwdbp

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

You can’t make this stuff up.

@hausfath.bsky.social and David Keith note that geoengineering would be a temporary “Band-Aid.” But some worry that by focusing attention and funding on geoengineering — like spending billions on CCS for coal plants — we focus less on dealing with the actual problem: our dependency on fossil fuels.

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UNREAL… Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

”Charlie Kirk built one of the most effective youth mobilization machines in recent memory. He helped elect a president. Unless Democrats respond, the next generation of young men will belong to someone else. And the future of American democracy may go with them.” @nytimes.com

The Trump administration is censoring signs, exhibits and photos related to slavery at US national parks, The Washington Post reports. Anyone who studied 20th century European history will recognize the push to erase and rewrite history. 🤔

I never thought I’d live in a military state where people with machine guns try to intimidate people just going about their lives. These soldiers were at the NoMa-Gaullaudet station in Washington, DC, the other day. Photo courtesy of my friend Lisa.

Some good news from our (dark) corner of the world! 🌞 via ‪@ember-energy.org‬

My best day of staycation this past week was biking down the Capital Crescent trail to Georgetown and Theodore Island. Reminded me of what a great city Washington, DC, is!

Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that DOGE put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

Let’s not lose sight of this: The Trump administration’s Medicaid cuts will deprive an estimated 156,000 Americans of treatment for opiod addiction. Researchers say it will lead to some 1,000 more fatal overdoses annually, reversing a recent decline. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.

Finally, a forecast with sunny days for the foreseeable future. Dry warm days to enjoy!

Just had a conversation with a friend about “civil courage,” or standing up for what’s right — even if it may hurt you. This is such courage. www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

An analysis found that real-time monitoring of hazardous pollutants from coal-fired power plants can yield nine times higher emission rates than traditional stack tests. Power sector trade groups and electric utilities say the systems are too costly, asking the EPA for relief. tinyurl.com/4jec49d6