Republicans like to make a big deal about how they support nuclear power, but the Trump administration has been gutting the technical and financial infrastructure needed to support that industry’s growth.Keystone Cops approach to energy dominance not likely to succeed. Edwin Lyma … | Continue reading
The video above is set to begin at the point in Senator Whitehouse’s speech yesterday where he describes the potential impacts on the clean power industry, and power production in general, should this bill be approved. Distilled: Climate and clean energy advocates thought they ha … | Continue reading
Has any great nation committed suicide in quite the way the United States seems poised to? Podcast above discusses current state of the emerging tax bill as of Sunday, June 29.Big implications for clean energy in the Bill’s present form. Big implications for the economy of the Un … | Continue reading
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Very satisfying as someone who finds himself doing a slow boil when I notice someone sitting in a car and idling an engine for no reason.In New York City, they pay a bounty on those suckers. | Continue reading
Talkingpointsmemo: I’m still trying to find out more about this. But as I do, I just wanted to put it on your radar because it’s completely crazy and epitomizes the Trump presidency. The National Science Foundation is already in the process of being gutted — in perhaps a not quit … | Continue reading
We have a mental health crisis in the US, and perhaps globally, owing in part to the addictive and seductive nature of social media, and the fossil fuel industry’s long term global misinformation campaign aimed at destroying trust in science, using the most sophisticated means of … | Continue reading
Pretty great video about what has become standard practice around any solar farm, and in fact, mandated by law in Michigan – native plants and pollinators, which, this video maintains, create a 20 percent productivity bump in surrounding farm fields. Research done at Argonne Nati … | Continue reading
You wonder why this fossil fuel dominated administration is tearing apart America’s world-leading scientific and research capabilities?It’s because of graphs like this, which they want to just go away. Hill Heat: Notwithstanding the retraction of Big Balls, DOGE isn’t dead. Wield … | Continue reading
Scientific American: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to announce Wednesday that it’s moving into the headquarters of the National Science Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, according to the union representing NSF employees. But as of Tuesday evening, … | Continue reading
Presentation from Dr Chris Stokes to the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative. Senior IPCC authors presents strong evidence that the Paris Agreement’s lower temperature limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is too high to prevent significant sea-level rise from Antarc … | Continue reading
Alan Beattie in Financial Times (paywall): Many in Congress dislike China and EVs more than they like technological advance. In an act of pure spite, the Senate recently attempted to stop the US Postal Service from using new state-of-the-art electric delivery trucks — a move that … | Continue reading
Reuters: The Trump administration has lifted a month-old stop-work order on Empire Wind, a $5 billion wind farm project off the coast of New York, in a compromise with the state that could also see cancelled plans for a gas pipeline revived, officials said on Tuesday. Norway’s Eq … | Continue reading
Above, road buckles suddenly in Cape Girardeaux, Missouri.Below, Bridge in Virginia malfunctions due to heat expansion beyond design parameters. Pretty good example of how climate conditions beyond what designers assumed can play havoc with infrastructure.Expensive, and increasin … | Continue reading
As climate impacts and weather extremes become more destructive, military resources globally have become more involved in responding to and mitigating impacts of stronger storms, flooding and droughts.Among those resources, US and other nations satellite technology has been parti … | Continue reading
I spent time last week talking to Clyde Taylor, who has been a farmer for decades in Rosebush, Michigan, in the next county over to the west. I documented the construction of Isabella wind in 2020, and those turbines now surround Clyde’s farm, although he does not have one on his … | Continue reading
Above, I interviewed a number of the most senior climate scientists for this Yale piece, I believe on the 30th anniversary of James Hansen’s 1988 Senate Testimony, where he announced that the signal of human caused climate change had been detected.How have his projections held up … | Continue reading
Reuters: Utilities in the developed world are stressing over how to keep up with demand from data centres and artificial intelligence searches. But globally, keeping people cool is likely to be a much bigger drain on electricity grids and a more pressing power sector challenge. W … | Continue reading
The good news: If you’ve been looking at those calorie restriction diets, this could help. CNN: Of the many impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, damage to the global food system is one of the most terrifying. But the overall impact of climate change on crops — and ho … | Continue reading
More than ever, need to focus on biggest bang-for-buck solutions to climate. Big fossil gas users have the power to hold Oil/gas players accountable for their emissions, as a condition to enter those markets, Europe, and now Japan and Korea have. “Access to Market” is a giant sti … | Continue reading
Anas Alhajji is not necessarily one of the good guys. He’s a chief economist for NGP, a Private Equity firm.But he’s not one of the dumb guys, either. Love how Mr. Alhajji starts out in the clip above noting that the US Secretary of Energy is executing “energy dominance” policies … | Continue reading
PJM: PJM has issued a Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert for June 23 as hot weather continues throughout the region PJM serves to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity to its customers across 13 states and the District of Columbia. PJM issues a Maximum Gener … | Continue reading
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Been hearing about this new form of processed wood as a construction material. It’s not the “mass timber” construction that I’ve posted about in the past – it’s yet another step in the evolution, with properties that make it look like a potential super material, like carbon fiber … | Continue reading
Expecting an extreme heat event in the upper Midwest starting tomorrow.PBS program is worth a look. The problem is bigger, and coming sooner, than you think. For some highly populated areas, it’s here today. | Continue reading
Above, Billionaire tech Bros on the “All in” podcast discuss China’s breakneck pace in the energy transition, and the reality of what our energy options are at the moment. TLDR – solar, wind and batteries are the only options available right now if we even want to maintain status … | Continue reading
Good analogy to start off this piece.Above, Fed Chair Jerome Powell tells Minnesota Senator Tina Smith “..fast forward 10 or 15 years, there will be areas of the country where you can’t get a mortgage, there won’t be ATMS..” due to climate risks. Mark Gongloff in Bloomberg: If yo … | Continue reading
Ford CEO on EV progress.Work continues. Farley feels Plug-in Hybrids are the mainstream, with EREVs coming soon, which is a technology I was not sufficiently aware of. Google says: An EREV, or Extended-Range Electric Vehicle, is a type of car that combines an electric motor with … | Continue reading
President of the US repeats one of 1992’s most brain dead climate denial crocks. Below, measured global temperature in red, climate model projections – range in blue, mean in heavy black line. | Continue reading
We told ya. Hell, THEY told ya. Project 2025 at work in your community. Politico: The nation’s top emergency response agency has repeatedly warned that it will run out of money to respond to natural disasters by August. So some emergency managers found it jarring when White House … | Continue reading
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And destroy a livable planet – but who’s listening to that message anymore?(know your audience) Above, Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) was asked today about the effects of the giant tax package currently making its way through the Republican lead US Senate.Mr Schatz is one of a g … | Continue reading
Trump and his Oil Oligarch donors are doing their damndest to kill EVs, and the US Auto industry in the process. One hope for change is that free market players are getting into the EV charger game and improving access and service across the country. New York Times: Automakers an … | Continue reading
Utility Dive: NERC’s report also highlights the potential for batteries to make the grid more reliable. Utility-scale battery storage in the United States is poised to more than double over the next two years and will close out 2026 at nearly 65 GW, the U.S. Energy Information Ad … | Continue reading
Future historians will not be kind to the Republican Party. New York Times: Climate advocates, Democrats, and even some House Republicans who last month had supported a tax package that gutted federal support for clean energy were hoping the Senate would make fixes to protect ene … | Continue reading
Report points out that these invasive Asian Needle Ants are well established in the US South, and now moving north. 2 to 4 times as many people are allergic to this ant’s venom than are allergic to honeybees. Report confirms they are moving north, but makes no mention of why that … | Continue reading
Good short report of a little mentioned story. Most people only think of the Bahamas as someplace to take a cruise or a vacation, but a lot of people actually live there, and they continue to struggle in the aftermath of increasingly violent storms, like Dorian, 6 years ago. In a … | Continue reading
Associated Press: For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term. It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation’s coldest state, but the National Weather Se … | Continue reading
Coastal cities with lots of jobs and opportunities tend to be blue, democratic strongholds, and ironically are strongholds of NIMBYism in terms of housing markets – wealthy owners of traditional single family suburban homes often work to keep out badly needed multiple dwelling ap … | Continue reading
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Your electric bill is going up. Hard to see how a war in the Middle East will help.Gas pains are a bitch. Gift Link, Wall Street Journal: America’s power bills are rising even faster than the cost of groceries. Higher natural-gas prices are partly to blame. Utilities investing bi … | Continue reading
The Washington Post has some great reporting illustrating the steady, grinding effect of climate change on places that, even just a few years ago, most experts thought would be safe from the worst impacts. In this case, Northern Vermont, once named as the country’s top “climate h … | Continue reading
Washington Post: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters … | Continue reading
Yahoo News: Seawater samples collected by scientists from Wageningen University & Research near four wind farms in the Dutch North Sea showed signs of multiple shark and ray species: thornback rays, basking sharks, spotted rays, starry smooth-hounds, and blonde rays. A contributi … | Continue reading
John Ketchum is CEO of Nextera, the largest builder of electric generation in the US. He has built gas, nuclear, and renewables. What he’s telling anyone that will listen right now is that, if we want to meet burgeoning US electricity demand, renewables are not just “nice to have … | Continue reading
The Trump administration doesn’t even understand the field they are playing on. Doug Lewin: Texas Energy and Power Newsletter As the House Republicans passed their and President Trump’s budget bill last month, some wanted to preserve — or at least have an orderly phase out of — v … | Continue reading