PS - California WIre is also live at @canarymedia.com — check out my take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track: www.canarymedia.com/articles/aff...

Newsom's last chance to tackle California's electricity costs

The governor has blocked efforts to harness distributed energy to rein in rising utility rates. Bills on his desk could reverse that trend — if he signs…

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California Wire, Canary Media’s new weekly newsletter, is live! In this edition, I take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track: californiawire.substack.com

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A weekly newsletter from Canary Media’s Jeff St. John that gets under the hood of California's clean energy transition. Published Wednesdays. Click to read California Wire, a Substack publication with...

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What if our current AI "moment" is functionally equivalent to what would have happened if you had given Scientology a trillion dollars and said, "Go create the digital L. Ron god" and then, "try to find a way for people to pay for its services" ... ??? www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport - Better Offline | iHeart

<p>Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI a narrat...

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California Wire | Substack

A weekly newsletter from Canary Media’s Jeff St. John that gets under the hood of California's clean energy transition. Published Wednesdays. Click to read California Wire, a Substack publication with...

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California Wire, Canary Media's new weekly newsletter dedicated to unraveling the complexities of the Golden State's energy transition, launches TOMORROW! I can't wait to share my California clean energy and climate policy obsessions. Sign up and join in! californiawire.substack.com #energysky

California Wire | Substack

A weekly newsletter from Canary Media’s Jeff St. John that gets under the hood of California's clean energy transition. Published Wednesdays. Click to read California Wire, a Substack publication with...

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Good morning team. Republicans want to cook the planet.

E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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Gavin Newsom ends eight years as California’s governor with a complicated climate legacy. Critics laud his clean energy successes, but say he abandoned key promises—and undermined distributed energy's potential—under oil industry and utility pressure: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

Gavin Newsom’s complicated legacy on climate and clean energy

Newsom’s 8-year term as California’s governor is drawing to an end. Here’s how he helped — and hindered — the state’s energy transition.

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Don't miss this energy-climate-politics explainer event! Covering Climate does such a great job conveying the core concepts of climate complexity — and my Canary Media colleague Julian Spector is both a savvy analyst and sartorial sensei... ;-) coveringclimatenow.org/event/rising...

Rising Energy Bills, Climate, and the 2026 Midterms — Covering Climate Now

Americans are facing an energy affordability crisis, and relief can’t come soon enough. How current officials and winning candidates tackle energy affordability will determine whether states maintain ...

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"I don’t think anything like this has ever happened in mainstream American politics. It is as if the Republican Party has simply given in to the fact that it is little more than a cult of personality centered on an aging celebrity real estate developer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Opinion | The Trump Show Must Go On

The president has a very simple strategy for the midterms.

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A federal court has ruled that DOE acted illegally to force a Michigan coal plant to stay open last year — a potentially major blow to the Trump administration's use of 'emergency' power to prop up aging, costly fossil fuel power plants: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

Court rules that Trump can’t force a Michigan coal plant to keep…

A long-awaited court decision finds fault with the DOE’s use of "emergency" powers to force aging, costly, polluting power plants to run past their…

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The Trump admin has issued a national emergency declaration that aims to ban a range of grid tech from China — including batteries. That's put gigawatts of U.S. battery projects on uncertain legal ground while they wait for DOE to explain the rules: www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat... #energysky

Trump emergency order casts uncertainty over grid battery growth

A sweeping yet vaguely worded national emergency declaration targeting Chinese grid tech could put gigawatts of grid battery projects on uncertain legal…

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Next Wednesday, Canary Media launches California Wire, our weekly newsletter bringing you the latest developments in the state’s sometimes bold, sometimes halting, progress toward a vibrant and equitable energy transition. Click to subscribe! californiawire.substack.com/p/welcome-to... #energysky

Welcome to California Wire!

Introducing Canary Media’s newsletter covering California’s clean energy transition.

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"The reaction really warms our hearts.” Meet the teens solving hunger, one slice at a time. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"The reaction really warms our hearts.” Meet the teens solving hunger, one slice at a time.

Aashrita Kaza and her brother Anish were volunteering at a local charity a couple of years ago when they noticed who was standing in line.

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Interregional HVDC lines could yield huge long-term benefits by linking grids across multiple time zones—if they can get financed and permitted. North Plains Connector has won DOE backing from both Biden and Trump admins to push through those barriers: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

This novel power line could link 3 grids across 3 time zones

North Plains Connector has earned backing from the Energy Department and utilities, and could deliver huge cost and reliability benefits — if states give…

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California lawmakers failed to overcome opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to fund Demand Side Grid Support, the state's premiere virtual power plant program, leaving one of the country's biggest home battery grid resources in limbo: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

California declines to fund its biggest virtual power plant

The Demand Side Grid Support program was given no money for next year, though supporters blocked an effort that could have disbanded the VPP altogether.

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California’s New Gas Pipeline Alternative: Just Paying You #energysky -- via Heatmap News heatmap.news/daily/c...

California lawmakers failed to overcome opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to fund Demand Side Grid Support, the state's premiere virtual power plant program, leaving one of the country's biggest home battery grid resources in limbo: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

California declines to fund its biggest virtual power plant

The Demand Side Grid Support program was given no money for next year, though supporters blocked an effort that could have disbanded the VPP altogether.

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Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

Google are really the biggest bunch of losers. Pathetic.

The cost for new gas-fired capacity is now roughly triple the cost of projects built in the early 2020s. Those costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers, either through local utilities' regulated rates or higher power prices in competitive markets. buff.ly/yXLRTaw

Wow: the federal government is paying MAGA influencers on X and other social media to post pro-regime propaganda. Actual paid crisis actors. Incredible reporting here. wapo.st/4x0p3pf

Last chance this week for California lawmakers to rescue the most-saving, climate-benefiting virtual power plant program that Gavin Newsom keeps inexplicably trying to kill: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social

California virtual power plant bills clear key legislative hurdle

Last year, Gov. Newsom vetoed bills promoting home batteries, smart thermostats, and EV chargers to curb energy costs. Will he do the same this year?

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"Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a slate of bills meant to expand virtual power plants that could offset the state’s fast-rising electricity costs. Will he do the same this year?" An update by @jeffstjohn.bsky.social on Senate bills 905 and 913: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... 🔌💡

California virtual power plant bills clear key legislative hurdle

Last year, Gov. Newsom vetoed bills promoting home batteries, smart thermostats, and EV chargers to curb energy costs. Will he do the same this year?

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FIRST ON CBS NEWS: A history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from work may no longer be a barrier to employment at the FBI.

At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.

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Last year, California Gov. Newsom vetoed bills promoting home batteries, smart thermostats, and EV chargers as virtual power plants to curb energy costs. This year, two more pro-VPP bills — SB 913 and SB 905 — appear likely to pass. Will he sign them? www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

California virtual power plant bills clear key legislative hurdle

Last year, Gov. Newsom vetoed bills promoting home batteries, smart thermostats, and EV chargers to curb energy costs. Will he do the same this year?

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PJM has cleared 50+ GW of projects, with #solar, #wind and #batteries making up the vast majority, per @rockymtninst.bsky.social data. via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social in @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

PJM has finally greenlit a lot of new clean power. Can it get built?

More than 50 GW of solar, wind, and batteries can now connect to PJM’s grid. It could help drive down costs — if states, utilities, and hyperscalers make…

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91% of the 51 GW of generation that has gotten through PJM's interconnection queue is solar, wind, and storage

Jeff St John@jeffstjohn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Grid operator PJM gets well-deserved flak for blocking solar, wind, and batteries in its 13-state region. But now it's up to states, utilities and data centers to get the ~50GW of clean energy projects that have cleared PJM's queue over the finish line: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene... #energysky

Grid operator PJM gets well-deserved flak for blocking solar, wind, and batteries in its 13-state region. But now it's up to states, utilities and data centers to get the ~50GW of clean energy projects that have cleared PJM's queue over the finish line: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene... #energysky

PJM has finally greenlit a lot of new clean power. Can it get built?

More than 50 GW of solar, wind, and batteries can now connect to PJM’s grid. It could help drive down costs — if states, utilities, and hyperscalers make…

canarymedia.com

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

Including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens, which is unconscionable.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.