US Secretary of Energy is pretty confident to be immortal

Secretive US-CEE Gas Supply Security Joint Statement signed on 24Feb by US National Energy Dominance Council with 12 European countries. European #energysecurity or acquiescent subordination to US #energydominance? Read our critical review published today: www.ecologic.eu/20433

"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."

Impressive report about widespread and partly successful popular resistance against mass deportations by ICE in several US cities.

1/10 My new report supported by @caneurope.org: 🚡 Overview on EU #Methane Regulation penalty rules 🔍 Debunking “unmanageable liability” myth (see the thread) 📊 State of play of national penalty rules in some MS: good and bad practice ⚖️ How to ensure a level playing field www.ecologic.eu/20270 ...>

New report on the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) by @piria.bsky.social. Supported by @caneurope.org, the report outlines the EU-MER penalty provisions, examines concerns about “unmanageable liability” for fossil fuel suppliers, & looks at national penalty rules in selected MS. www.ecologic.eu/20270

🚨Report Launch: Penalty Regimes for Violations of the EU Methane Regulation in selected EU Member States🚨 ✍️ Written by @piria.bsky.social of @ecologic.eu, supported by CAN Europe, it uncovers how clear and robust penalty rules are key for the #EUMethaneRegulation ’s success. 🔗 shorturl.at/odnFA

🚨New Publication 🚨 Europe’s #EnergySecurity on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid-transition. Policy brief by @agoraew.bsky.social and @ecologic.eu I co-authored with 🙏 @marcogiuli.bsky.social Frauke Thies & Krisztina Zálnoky . www.ecologic.eu/20204 👇1/7

This photo just about sums it up

Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/

How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation? You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands. Why help the lie?

Please remind news media parroting US government inflation statements that those are just Trump regime fantasy numbers since May.

🇷🇴 is 3rd #crudeoil producer in the EU, and EU Member State with most abandoned oil wells. They may continue to emit #methane for decades after the end of extraction. Personal note: 1st time a publication of mine is translated into Romanian @tabeapottiez.bsky.social @jschwartzkopff.bsky.social

Today we published two guides to implement the #EUMethaneRegulation. Cutting #methane emissions crucial to slow down global warming in #Czechia and #Romania CZ www.ecologic.eu/20098 RO www.ecologic.eu/20099 Relevant for other EU countries too. Thanks to our partner @cde-cz.bsky.social

#Deutschland: Seit dem Aufstieg extrem rechter Kräfte, die offen medienfeindlich auftreten, sehen sich Lokaljournalist*innen zunehmend bedroht. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des @ecpmf.bsky.social und des Bundesverbands Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV). www.bdzv.de/service/pres...

Refreshing to see many students in deep-red Idaho publicly defending their teacher's decision to hang in the dchool a sign ‘Everyone is welcome here’. But so disturbing that public officers did work to forbid it. youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...

"The district did not explain how a sign reading “Everyone is welcome here” would be in violation of that law." - The abyss the US is falling into is deeper than many here in Europe are prepared to acknowledge. Read more at: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...

The US stock market is behaving as if the country is governed by a six-times bankrupt

A stunning essay in the @financialtimes.com on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things. It began or accelerated in the early 2010s. It's hitting teens AND adults. Self-report and objective scores.

The Atlanta US Fed's GDPNow estimate for Q1 25 GDP is  MINUS 1.5% on Feb28, down from PLUS 2.3% on Feb19.  I wonder what catastrophes ever made it collapse by 3 8% within weeks. Investors fleeing wannabe-kingdom? Thanks to @stargazer5000.bsky.social for this. www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

New power generation installation forecasted by the US Energy Information Administration for 2025: Solar: 52% Battery storage: 29% Wind: 12% Gas: 7% Nuclear: 0% Coal: 0% Investors don't align with the "king". Who knows how long EIA will be allowed to publish the truth? www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

So eine Darstellung, die die großen, aber menschenleeren AfD-Wahlkreise im Osten optisch nicht immer so überrepräsentiert, habe ich schon lange gesucht.

If only !

Welchen Einfluss haben #Hochvermögende und eine zunehmende #Ungleichheit auf unsere #Demokratie? Ein Thread:

In this growing market, Tesla sold half as many cars in Europe through January 2025 compared to the previous year, with market See: www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-s...

Our new report discusses why #hydrogen #emissions matter, when they will become significant, and how the EU can tackle them. While #H2emissions make up a negligible fraction of today's #GHG emissions, they are set to become more significant in the 2030s and 2040s …🧵 Read more: www.ecologic.eu/19988

Some facts on the EU, which started its energy transition earlier and is thus ahead of other regions, reinforce Ketan's point: 2019-23 the EU's coal consumption dropped by 27%, gas by 18%, oil by 7%, while the population grew by 0.6% and the GDP by 4% ...🧵

2024 wurden 92 Mio. Tonnen Braunkohlen in Deutschland gefördert, so wenig wie zuletzt im Jahr 1916. energy-charts.info/downloads/St...

"The irony is that as Trump casts a large, dark shade, more and more of the world is coming out of the US’s shadow." Good analysis by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Einen Giga-Dank Prof. Burger und seinem Team für >10 Jahre minutiöser, hochwertiger Arbeit, die dies ermöglicht! Hut ab den hervorragenden Profis von ARD Plusminus, die zeigen, wie faktenbasierte Berichterstattung auch zu sehr komplexen Themen geht! Nur ein Argument fehlte... 🧵

The EU set very ambitious targets for reducing fossil gas consumption. So far, the EU is on track for meeting the REPowerEU targets. Data from @bruegel.bsky.social

ChatGPT 4o answer to my question on January 6, today. Let's periodically check on the answer now OpenAI CEO is getting close with Trump.

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

100,000 people demonstrate in Berlin for democracy, human rights and against fascism.

A good reason to donate to Wikipedia.

Ember's European Electricity Review 2025 is out with great highlights 🧵 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

Whatsapp, like Facebook, is owned by Zuckerberg's Meta. Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447