Power providers, state floodplain managers and emergency preparedness officials are heading into the 2026 hurricane and wildfire season with questions about what role the federal government will play if disaster strikes. tinyurl.com/3f2crs49

What do the US, Belarus, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have in common? 🤔 This motley crew of autocratic nations were the only ones voting against a UN resolution this week to reduce #climate pollution.

Here’s a silver lining to our high oil and gasoline prices⛽️: Americans are riding more bikes 🚴 — good for air and health! And they took 45 million more bus rides 🚍 than before Trump’s war, according to the @nytimes.com.

California has the largest virtual power plant in the world, with 200,000 participants. At the exact moment when the grid is dirtiest and most expensive to run, this program surges in with the cheapest, cleanest power. Newsom's budget would kill it. That's just bad policy.

That is, if the GOP listens to the Senate Parliamentarian. They haven’t in the recent past.

Hardly a Mother’s Day topic but here’s what’s on many moms’ minds these days: How to pay spiraling energy bills. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDO...

Democrats’ ”first priority must be to materially improve workers’ lives, rather than propose a grand vision of an #energy transition.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

61 years after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states are now rushing to redraw their voting districts to dilute the minority vote. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

China took the #cleanenergy ball and ran with it. Like everyone said they would. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

The US power sector now has plans to add 155 GW of fossil fuel capacity to meet mostly data center-driven electricity demand. 99% would be natural gas-fired power plants. Tackling #climate change is so yesterday. tinyurl.com/dhbn6vwj

Yes!!! Could be a harbinger of more good news to come…

This is how we manage a country and make America great again.

US power companies are racing to install AI-powered smoke detection cameras, more satellite weather stations and new grid technology to get ahead of what could be an intense 2026 wildfire season. #climate tinyurl.com/ycyj3acn

US coal plants are back in favor — and carbon and hazardous air emissions are soaring. tinyurl.com/2s9pafe2

Imagine how bad the latest energy crisis would be in the EU if the electricity mix still looked like it did 20 years ago. Electricity mix fossil share 2005 → 2025 🇩🇰Denmark: 73% → 9% 🇵🇹Portugal: 82% → 19% 🇳🇱Netherlands: 88% → 46% 🇮🇪Ireland: 93% → 52% 🇪🇸Spain: 66% → 25% 🇬🇷Greece: 89% → 50%

“To win in life, you’ve got to suffer short-term pain for the long-term gain, and that’s what we’re in the middle of doing right now.” (Energy Secretary Chris Wright)

Supporting expensive and aging coal-fired power plants is becoming a consistent strategy for the Trump administration. Today’s rollback, if upheld by courts, translates into 1,000 pounds more mercury released into US air and water. tinyurl.com/ev3cp7nn

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