Power providers are counting on the demise of the 2024 power plant carbon rules, with their CCS standards. But their resource plans show they're less confident that they won't be regulated for climate change sometime in the future. www.eenews.net/articles/pow...

Power companies are still planning for climate regulation. Sort of.

Utilities are leaning into a regulatory future free of carbon restrictions. But they are mindful of a potential future about-face.

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The retirement of RCP8.5 — former worst-case climate scenario has been in the news recently, and I’ve seen a lot of good explainers about this very misunderstood modeling tool. But an angle I think has been missing: the former best-case scenario is also out. My story: www.eenews.net/articles/the...

The worst-case climate scenario is gone. The catch? The best case is, too.

Inside the demise of a 15-year-old modeling scenario built off the worst possibilities scientists could imagine.

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NEW: Todd Blanche has mastered the audience of one — in part by keeping him out of prison. The audience of 100 is a tougher sell. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social @eorden www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

U.S. manufacturers say that EPA's recent rule giving supermarkets more time to start buying the more climate-friendly refrigeration systems they developed will hurt them and help their Chinese competitors. My piece: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA’s HFC delay tests Trump’s made in America agenda

The agency's regulatory rollback for grocery refrigerators has sparked a backlash from U.S. manufacturers.

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I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not.

Emergency officials are searching for loopholes to save lives as President Donald Trump slashes programs.

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The dock that launched America’s offshore wind industry now sits mostly empty. Only remnants of the project remain. As Trump has made combatting offshore wind a hallmark of his second term, a blue-collar town is at the center of it all.

It Was Supposed to Be a Lifeline for a Blue-Collar Town. Then Trump Returned.

New Bedford, Massachusetts is ground zero for America’s wind industry.

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EPA's rule letting grocery stores buy HFC-based refrigeration systems through 2032 gives a dollar value only to upfront costs of buying an HFC product vs. a HFC-free product. No monetized values for employment, other industries, health, climate.

EPA is calling regulatory impact analyses for rules (like the recent HFC technology transition change) regulatory impact "memos." What are they doing there?

EPA's power plant carbon rule repeal has landed at OMB. Anybody know what might have changed since the proposal? What did they do about causation/endangerment/whatnot? I'm at jchemnick.01 on Signal. Thank you, and happy Friday!

This is really a cool resource, and I didn't know it existed. A group called Climate Literacy has preserved all the climate databases and analytical tools that were removed from agency websites (EPA, Ag) in one place: www.climateliteracy.earth/us-federal-r...

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin is good at tailoring his message to MAGA media. But that sometimes puts him at odds with EPA's official justifications for actions -- whether it be a rule or the cancellation of a grant. And that could be a liability if he moves over to DOJ: www.eenews.net/articles/fro...

From EPA to DOJ? Zeldin’s words may haunt him.

The EPA chief’s partisan attacks energize the base but risk weakening cases he’d oversee if he's named attorney general.

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EPA finalized its endangerment finding repeal on legal grounds. But today, Zeldin told the Heartland gathering that their view that greenhouse gases would be net beneficial to humanity would be proved right in the coming decades as harmful warming fails to materialize.

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Addressing a climate science deniers conference, EPA chief Lee Zeldin acknowledged his presence meant the "walls have collapsed" between federal government and a fringe group of contrarians that other administrations kept at arm's length. w/ @chemnick.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

EPA is due to finalize its repeal of Biden power plant climate rules in "early spring." Tick tock. It hasn't gone to OMB. But there is growing speculation that it will pull the rule back based on a critique of CCS, with a supplemental "endangerment" draft. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Why EPA may need a new strategy to repeal power plant pollution limits

The agency is expected to soon finalize the repeal, which was proposed before the Trump administration's elimination of the 2009 endangerment finding.

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The unprecedented heat wave currently enveloping the western U.S. could portend intensifying drought, water shortages, strong summer heat and intense wildfires later this year, scientists warn. My story: 🔏https://www.eenews.net/articles/alarm-bells-early-western-heat-wave-foreshadows-future-danger/

‘Alarm bells’: Early Western heat wave foreshadows future danger

Vanishing snowpack, dwindling water supplies, high summer heat and severe wildfires could all be in store later this season.

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EPA's endangerment finding and car rules repeal suggested that oil prices fall because of Trump policies. Lower future prices at the pump would mean consumers pay less for policies that keep demand high. But then came Trump's war... www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA tied its climate rollback to low oil prices. Then came the Iran war.

The Trump administration relied on rosy price estimates to argue that repealing emissions limits for cars would save consumers money.

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Trump wants more data centers to generate their own power. But living next to tech industry gas turbines has made this VA neighborhood "unbearable" due to noise. One resident is taking sleeping pills, another can't walk his dog. My latest for @eenews.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/one...

One obstacle for Trump’s AI power pledge: The neighbors

Getting data centers to generate their own electricity may ease one obstacle to public acceptance of data centers. But it creates new hurdles.

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The Clean Air Act is a somewhat clunky instrument for tackling climate change -- at least for some sectors. So, if the Clean Air Act is going to be broadly unavailable for greenhouse gas regulation post-endangerment repeal, what comes after that? www.eenews.net/articles/Why...

Why the Clean Air Act was never a ‘good fit’ for climate

The lawyers who successfully won the law’s climate authority once thought of it as a placeholder for stronger legislation.

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Trump administration cuts, layoffs and restructurings have cast a shadow over U.S. participation in a major international climate modeling initiative -- a collaboration that federal scientists have been at the forefront of for decades. My story today: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump cuts threaten US role in global climate modeling

Agency cuts, layoffs and policy shifts are throwing America’s role into question.

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Dispatch from my other life: Our upcoming concerts (Mar 13 & 14!) celebrate composer & long-time Cantori collaborator Adolphus Hailstork. I wrote a lil note on the program, which explores themes of freedom, resistance to tyranny & rebuilding after devastating conflict. 👇 www.van.org/articles/Can...

The fact that Congress has signed off on Clean Air Act methane rules (three times, actually. CRA,IRA,OBBBA) could be a problem as EPA prepares to defend the endangerment repeal. www.eenews.net/articles/the...

The awkward exception in EPA’s climate repeal: Methane

The agency’s effort to maintain methane rules could create legal woes as it argues greenhouse gas curbs lack clear congressional backing.

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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sounded highly skeptical of EPA's case for cancelling the "green bank" grants yesterday, though that probably doesn't mean the nonprofits will be able to access their award funds anytime soon. Takeaways with @lesleyclark.bsky.social: www.eenews.net/articles/4-t...

4 takeaways from the DC Circuit’s big climate hearing

Nonprofits appeared likely to prevail on their argument that the Trump administration wrongly terminated their Biden-era grants.

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I went on C-Span's Washington Journal this morning to talk about EPA's endangerment finding rollback. People on the other site had a lot of opinions about that, let me tell you. www.c-span.org/program/wash...

EPA dropped its assault on climate science: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA yanks attacks on climate science from endangerment repeal

The agency relied on legal arguments to erase the basis for climate rules, ditching provisions that tried to poke holes in the scientific consensus on

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Here's the final rule on endangerment (finally): www.epa.gov/regulations-...

Final Rule: Rescission of the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act | US EPA

The final rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule.

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People briefed on the endangerment finding repeal tell me that it's based on legal arguments only. It doesn't take aim at the actual science of warming. The repeal could decimate federal climate policy -- if it survives legal challenge.

So, has anyone out there actually seen the text of the endangerment finding rollback? Because they haven't put it out. And I'm told Zeldin might not even have signed it yet? on Signal at jchemnick.01

Here's what EPA just put up on the endangerment finding repeal: www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA

Alongside the President, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

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I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy. And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.! www.eenews.net/articles/Her....

Here’s what could happen when the endangerment finding dies

States, courts and Congress could be forced to fill the climate policy vacuum.

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A tiny fraction of the 572k public comments EPA received on the endangerment draft have been posted. When I asked EPA about that recently, it said that was because only one sample comment for mass mailer campaigns was posted, “As any reporter familiar with EPA rulemakings would know."

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...