Election Day Is Finally Here

Current conditions: Typhoon Yinxing is expected to bring heavy rain to the Philippines this week • India is considering cloud seeding to trigger artificial rain to combat dangerous air pollution • It will be 59 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy in Washington, D.C., where security fen … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

The Climate Stakes of This Election

When Joe Biden was still running for reelection to the presidency, he often repeated the line that voters should keep him in the White House to “finish the job.” Though she would be loath to describe her mission that way, that is more or less what Biden’s vice president, Kamala H … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Climate Is on the Ballot Everywhere

Elections inspire hyperbole. Every two years, we have “the most important election of our lifetime,” America’s future constantly “hangs in the balance,” and the stakes perennially “couldn’t be higher.” But this year, some breathlessness does seem appropriate. 2024 marks the first … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Renewable Energy Has a Swing Voter Problem

In Texas, the Oak Run Solar Project would have been a slam dunk. Developers would install 800 megawatts of solar panels — enough to power 800,000 homes — across nine square miles of unused land. It would devote some of its acreage to new farming practices that incorporate solar p … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Drought Hits New York City

Current conditions: Schools are closed this week in Lahore, Pakistan, due to unprecedented pollution • An extreme red alert for torrential rain has been issued in Barcelona • A storm system in the Caribbean could strengthen into a hurricane by Wednesday. THE TOP FIVE 1. Biodivers … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Pennsylvanians Aren’t Just Voting for President

In four days, Pennsylvania will become just about the most important place on Earth. It is unlikely that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump can reach the White House without carrying the Keystone State; winning Pennsylvania bumps either’s odds of prevailing in the whole electio … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Ford Pump the Brakes on the F-150 Lightning

Current conditions: New York City, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley, along with much of the Northeast Corridor, are under red flag warnings for fire after a month of dry weather • Typhoon Kong-rey made landfill in Taiwan with winds over 125 miles per hour, injuring more t … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

The President Won’t Be the Problem for the U.S. at COP

Less than a week after election night in the U.S., the United Nations’ annual climate conference begins in Azerbaijan. COP29, as this year’s conference is called, has climate finance and carbon markets on the agenda. It’s no secret that the outcome of the U.S. presidential electi … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Dead Hydrogen Hubs and Ghost Forests

Current conditions: A “pretty good chance of rain” in Los Angeles over the next few days won’t dampen World Series celebrations • Typhoon Kong-rey makes landfall as the most powerful storm to hit Taiwan in 28 years • Record-warm temperatures across the Northeast mean trick-or-tre … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Would You Like a Gas-Fired Power Plant With That Data Center?

The cloud computing company CoreWeave announced Monday that it is leasing a former medical research facility and turning it into a data center. Along with it comes a 25-megawatt power plant that once provided power and steam directly to the former Merck headquarters in Kenilworth … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Hydrogen Hubs Are Struggling. Why?

Key projects for the Energy Department’s hydrogen hubs are dropping like flies. And it’s really not obvious why. Three hubs DOE selected for potential federal support have lost projects that were linchpins. Industrial giant Fortescue is no longer publicly committing to a hydro-po … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Agri-Voltaics Anguish, Offshore Wind Wailing

1. Douglas County, Kansas – A legal headache is consuming Kansas Sky Energy Center, a 159-megawatt solar project proposed by Savion and Invenergy… and showcasing how “agri-voltaics” may not be the community engagement panacea some in industry are praying for, according to legal f … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Offshore Wind’s Sign of Resilience

1. Offshore wind lease win – Two companies, Avangrid and Invenergy, purchased four of the eight leases up for grabs yesterday at the first floating offshore wind sale in the Gulf of Maine, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. I’ve previously chronicled how offshore … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

The CEO of GE Vernova Wants Less Talk, More Action

Last week at Greentown Labs’ startup summit in Boston I interviewed Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, the energy equipment manufacturing arm of General Electric formerly known as GE Renewables and GE Power. GE Vernova has been at the forefront of a tech and public relations crisi … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

What Does Elon Musk Want From Trump?

At a recent rally for Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, the head of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, took the stage together and contemplated the federal budget. “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?” Lutnic … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

5 Takeaways From an Actually Pretty Solid Quarter for EV Sales

Stop me if you’ve heard this one already, but the supposed EV sales slump isn’t real. The overall growth rate has slowed somewhat, crushing any fantasy that America would accelerate to mostly electric driving in just a few years. But electric vehicles sales have been steadily ris … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health

Current conditions: At least 51 people were killed by flash floods in Spain yesterday • Rapidly intensifying Super Typhoon Kong-rey is barreling toward Taiwan • Mount Fuji has yet to see snow this year, marking the latest date the mountain has been bare in 130 years. THE TOP FIVE … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Redoxblox Raises $40.7 Million for ‘Thermochemical’ Energy Storage

Decarbonizing industrial processes such as paper and pulp production, chemical manufacturing, or food processing is a tough sell. As it so often goes, that’s largely due to the efficacy and low cost of natural gas, which can cheaply and efficiently provide the high heat required … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Climate-o-Rama: EVs, Oil, Trump, and More

It’s all happening. The presidential election is a week away, and our cohost Jesse Jenkins is back from vacation. There is so much to talk about in the world of decarbonization and energy. So we tried to catch up on all of it. Are EV sales starting to rebound in the U.S.? What’s … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Climate-o-Rama: EVs, Oil, Trump, and More

It’s all happening. The presidential election is a week away, and our cohost Jesse Jenkins is back from vacation. There is so much to talk about in the world of decarbonization and energy. So we tried to catch up on all of it. Are EV sales starting to rebound in the U.S.? What’s … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Two Offshore Wind Developers Wade Into the Gulf of Maine

Just days before what is sure to be a close presidential election in which one of the candidates has promised to shut down the offshore wind industry “on day one,” an auction for the rights to develop wind energy projects in the Gulf of Maine on Tuesday was a surprise success. Tw … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

The Energy Transition Is Slowing Down

The Paris Agreement goal of holding warming to well less than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels is not just increasingly appearing to be out of reach. The energy transition as a whole is slowing down. This was the stark warning from Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition O … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

There’s No Easy Way to Fill Climate Tech’s ‘Missing Middle’

Sometimes it’s called the “missing middle,” sometimes, more ominously, the “valley of death.” Whatever the terminology, it’s undeniable that a chasm lies between a climate company’s early funding rounds and its eventual commercial scale-up, one that’s getting harder and harder to … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

The Climate Politics Hiding in Plain Sight

For some reason, people keep moving to Phoenix. The population of Maricopa County, which includes the city and its suburbs, was over 4.4 million in the 2020 Census, double what it had been 30 years before. This is despite the fact that you run the risk of bursting into flames sim … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Trump’s False Climate Claims

Current conditions: More than 100 people are dead in the Philippines following flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami • A low-pressure area in the southwest Caribbean could develop into Hurricane Patty as the storm season enters its final month • New York City’s r … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 1 month ago

Exclusive: New York’s $32 Million Induction Stove Contest Has a Winner

Last year, New York City went shopping for 10,000 induction stoves so it could ditch gas in its public housing. Now it's ready to make a purchase. The New York Power Authority and NYC Housing Authority have selected Copper, a Berkeley, California-based startup that was formerly k … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

America’s Climate Future Will Be Decided in Arizona

In 2022, the Arizona Republic published a sentence many Democrats had dreamed of reading for decades: “Arizona,” the paper announced, “is a blue state.” At the time, it felt true. In 2020, Joe Biden won the Grand Canyon State — only the second time a Democrat had done so since Ar … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

America’s Climate Future Will Be Decided in Arizona

In 2022, the Arizona Republic published a sentence many Democrats had dreamed of reading for decades: “Arizona,” the paper announced, “is a blue state.” At the time, it felt true. In 2020, Joe Biden won the Grand Canyon State — only the second time a Democrat had done so since Ar … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Tesla’s Cheap EV Switcheroo

Tesla got to thump its chest this week. In a Wednesday earnings call with investors, CEO Elon Musk and company shared better-than-expected sales and financial numbers for the third quarter of 2024. That good news caused the electric vehicle-maker’s stock to rebound following what … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

The World Has on Ambition Gap on Emissions, UN Says

Current conditions: Tropical Storm Dana touched down in India with 70 mile-per-hour winds, causing 600,000 people to be evacuated • Parts of the Northwestern U.S. and Canada’s British Columbia may see snow this weekend • Dallas is on track for its second-hottest October on record … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

The Democratic Party Is Pro-Nuclear — and Ready to Talk About It

For as long as I’ve been an energy reporter, I’ve been asked a scoffing question by moderates and conservatives: If Democrats really cared about climate change, shouldn’t they embrace nuclear power? It’s a fair question. Nuclear energy, after all, can produce vast amounts of elec … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

2 Climate Removal Deals, 1 Final Tax Credit Rule

Current conditions: Tropical Storm Trami brought widespread flooding to the Philippines, killing at least 24 people • The Southwestern U.S. is experiencing a heatwave, with temperatures as high as 25 degrees Fahrenheit above normal • The three NASA astronauts stuck at the Interna … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

There Is a Wrong Way to Insulate Your Home

When Zara Bode, a musician from Brooklyn, New York, first walked into the old seven-bedroom Victorian in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, it just felt right. Her husband, also a traveling musician, had grown up nearby. “You walk in this house and you’re like, oh, there’s a good vib … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

3 Small Elections With Big Consequences for Clean Energy

On November 5, voters in a handful of states will cast their ballots not just for their next president and state and local lawmakers, but also for the members of an obscure body with outsized influence on the country’s energy mix. It’s called a public utilities commission. Every … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Anatomy of a Texas NIMBY

An hour northwest of San Antonio, Texas, the small town of Bandera is home to fewer than 1,000 people. Complete with old-timey heritage buildings from the Old West, the town markets itself as a ranching tourism destination and the “cowboy capital of the world.” And some residents … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

A Midwestern Shot/Chaser for Renewables

1. Madison County, Ohio – All eyes are now on the Ohio Supreme Court, after opponents of the nation’s largest agri-voltaics project – Savion’s Oak Run solar farm – yesterday formally appealed a key approval from the state Power Siting Board. We’ve previously explored how the figh … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Offshore Wind Isn’t Swinging Votes

1. Offshore wind completion – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management finished its environmental review for more offshore wind off the coast of New York and New Jersey – an area relevant to the recently-submitted Community Offshore Wind joint venture between RWE and National Grid. … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

The IRA Programs Most At Risk from a Trump Victory

With the election approaching, I wanted to talk to the smartest person I could find to explain how the election could affect the Inflation Reduction Act and ultimately renewable energy development. So I hit up Jason Clark, who was until recently chief strategy officer for America … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Taking the Methane Out of Trash

Current conditions: Cyclone Dana, currently over the Bay of Bengal, is set to touch down in eastern India tomorrow • Parts of Texas will see record-breaking or near record-breaking temperatures today and tomorrow • The state of Connecticut is under a red flag warning, with dry co … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Are Democrats the Party of Nuclear Now?

Over the past two months, the country’s biggest tech companies have announced a flurry of deals with advanced and conventional nuclear companies. At the same time, Democratic candidates running for federal office — including Kamala Harris and a handful of Senate candidates — have … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Clean Energy Stocks Are Bracing for a Trump Victory

If you look at the polls, the presidential election — now exactly two weeks away — is very close. If you listen to the prognosticators, Trump has a slight edge. And if you look at the markets, whether prediction markets or Wall Street, Trump’s chances are looking pretty good, wit … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

What Lies Beneath Arkansas

Current conditions: Tropical Storm Trami is taking aim at the Philippines • Heavy downpours triggered severe flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape • The southern Alaskan mainland is bracing for a major storm system that is expected to bring high winds and flooding. THE TOP FIVE … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

The SpaceX Alums Using Rocket Science to Make ‘Carbon-Negative’ Energy

Arbor Energy might have the flashiest origin story in cleantech. After the company’s CEO, Brad Hartwig, left SpaceX in 2018, he attempted to craft the ideal resume for a future astronaut, his dream career. He joined the California Air National Guard, worked as a test pilot at the … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Wildfire Smoke Deaths Are Spiking as the Planet Warms

If you are one of the more than 2 billion people on Earth who have inhaled wildfire smoke, then you know firsthand that it is nasty stuff. It makes your eyes sting and your throat sore and raw; breathe in smoke for long enough, and you might get a headache or start to wheeze. May … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Can World Leaders Halt Biodiversity Loss?

Current conditions: Record rainfall triggered flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, that killed at least two people • Storm Ashley unleashed 80 mph winds across parts of the U.K. • A wildfire that broke out near Oakland, California, on Friday is now 85% contained. THE TOP FIVE 1. Hurr … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

America Is Becoming a Low-Trust Society

When Hurricanes Helene and Milton swept through the Southeast, small-government conservatives demanded fast and effective government service, in the form of relief operations organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Yet even as the agency was scrambling to meet the n … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

How Washington State’s Climate Legacy Wound Up on the Ballot

Twenty years ago, you could still get away with calling Redmond, Washington, an equestrian town. White fences parceled off ranches and hobby farms where horses grazed under dripping evergreen trees; you could buy live chicks, alfalfa, and Stetson hats in stores downtown. It wasn’ … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago

Wildfire Emissions Are Skyrocketing

Current conditions: Fire weather in California has prompted intentional power cuts for more than 5,000 PG&E customers • Large parts of central and northern Italy are flooded after heavy rains • The eastern U.S. will see “tranquil and near seasonable” weather this weekend. THE TOP … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 months ago