Rebecca Ochoa had a heat stroke during a high school volleyball tryout. That was 11 years ago. “I am still not the same as before this happened, physically or mentally,” she told @bloomberg.com. New story on the long recovery of heat stroke survivors (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One Hot Day Can Change Your Body for Years

Heat stroke can damage the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. As extreme heat becomes more common, doctors are learning just how difficult recovery can be.

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Pacific Fusion just broke ground in Albuquerque on a $1 billion fusion reactor designed to do what no company or lab ever has before: produce more energy than the entire machine consumes, by 2030

Pacific Fusion Just Broke Ground on a $1 Billion Test Reactor

The New Mexico facility aims to achieve net energy gain by 2030.

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the US is in the midst of a historic nat gas buildout — with much of it tied to data centers, many of the biggest projects going off-grid, and a meaningful chunk of it dirtier than the last big gas boom in the 2000s

Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 5d ago

There's been a lot of news about natural gas megaprojects tied to data centers recently, and it's getting hard to keep track. I put together a list of the 10 biggest projects, (according to their developers' aspirations, at least,) and the status of each. heatmap.news/energy/10-bi...

There's been a lot of news about natural gas megaprojects tied to data centers recently, and it's getting hard to keep track. I put together a list of the 10 biggest projects, (according to their developers' aspirations, at least,) and the status of each. heatmap.news/energy/10-bi...

The U.S. Is Building Natural Gas Power Twice as Fast as China

A new report from Global Energy Monitor shows how the scale of planned projects is driving the fossil fuel boom.

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This is the timeline on the Fast-41 dashboard. The biggest gas power project in the U.S. is only receiving an environmental assessment under NEPA, and I’m unsure how the air pollution side will be handled in all this. I’m waiting for comment from Ohio EPA.

The biggest fossil fueled power plant EVER BUILT IN THE US.... will get an environmental assessment, the less rigorous review under the national environmental policy act... and complete permitting in just 7 months, per the Trump admin. yep

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · last wk.

SCOOP: The Trump administration claims it will complete the entire federal environmental review for the biggest gas power project in the U.S. — the OpenAI-Nvidia data center in Ohio — within the span of only seven months. Not kidding! Source in the reply. For @heatmap.news

Does anyone know if any of the DOE's emergency orders allowing grid operators to dispatch backup gensets as demand response have actually been utilized?

There are a LOT of ongoing lawsuits over Trump's funding freeze and subsequent grant cancelations. In light of the recent Climate United decision, I waded through the cases and broke it all down — the types of suits, the big legal questions, impt rulings to date, etc. heatmap.news/politics/tru...

The 5 Big Legal Questions Holding Up Billions in Climate Funding

Here’s where things stand after some major recent decisions.

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The Trump administration has now spent nearly $4 billion from the Judgement Fund to cancel offshore wind leases

Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: RWE is the latest offshore wind domino to drop, a move I predicted back in April. RWE settled with the Trump admin to cancel its leases in the NY Bight and California for $1.2 billion. americas.rwe.com/press/2026-0...

BREAKING: RWE is the latest offshore wind domino to drop, a move I predicted back in April. RWE settled with the Trump admin to cancel its leases in the NY Bight and California for $1.2 billion. americas.rwe.com/press/2026-0...

RWE U.S. Offshore reaches settlement agreement with U.S. Department of Interior on offshore wind leases

RWE U.S. Offshore has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to resolve claims against the U.S. Government and relinquish its offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York, Ca...

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This morning's dispatch from @alexckaufman.bsky.social is a meaty one, with news on the pending Section 232 polysilicon investigation decision and Oklo splitting some atoms for the first time ☢️ heatmap.news/am/trump-win...

Trump May Be Forced to Resume Wind Project Permits

On Trump’s polysilicon tariffs, Oklo’s milestone, and black lung

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Unlike the Ontario wildfires, which were mostly burning in the woods, these fires have now burned through urban areas, making the smoke extra, extra toxic. Take the AQI warnings seriously this week, PNW neighbors.

Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 4w ago

Heads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx

We also need a radical rethink of how schools handle this issue. We have research coming out in the coming weeks that covers two years of indoor AQ at schools in CA impacted by smoke. The system we have doesn’t protect kids. And kids are extremely vulnerable, esp where baseline AQ is bad to start.

My proposal is that HEPA filters should be covered by health insurance for everybody with a preexisting condition (COPD and lots else but also including pregnancy and early childhood) and that AQ notices to vulnerable people should happen through their electronic health record systems.

I don't really understand this -- even if the new rebate rules prevent fuel SWITCHING, can't you still use the rebate to get a heat pump and just keep your existing propane heater in place, but not really use it? (or... get rid of it later..?)

Canary Media Inc.@canarymedia.com · 2mo ago

Americans can no longer use federal funds to swap fossil-fueled appliances for electric ones. North Carolinians were using that money as they continue to recover from Hurricane Helene.

The eligibility window for solar and wind tax credits closes on July 4. Democrats have vowed to bring them back — whether or not the industry wants them. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social on why the case for reinstatement is more complicated than it might appear: heatmap.news/energy/solar...

The Wind and Solar Tax Credits Are About to Expire. Will They Come Back?

Democrats in Congress are determined to restore them. That isn’t necessarily what the industry wants.

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TIL there is a natural gas turbine company called "Solar Turbines"

New Jersey leg just passed a big suite of energy bills: plugin solar, advanced grid technologies, and a bunch of data center regulations. Full list here from Sierra club: www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey/b... Story on nixing the data center tax credit from Heatmap: heatmap.news/politics/new...

New Jersey Lawmakers Just Nixed a 2-Year-Old Data Center Tax Credit

The bill is part of a package now sitting on Governor Mikie Sherrill’s desk.

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cool job alert: NYC Urban Green Council is hiring a director of policy www.urbangreencouncil.org/wp-content/u...

Who can tell me more about why the 1978 Energy Tax Act had to specify that swimming pools could not be claimed as an energy storage medium !

BREAKING: Duke Energy has signed the 4th settlement agreement with the Trump administration to relinquish its offshore wind leases. In this case, Interior says Duke will re-invest the $129 million into "generating capacity" but did not specify what kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

Trump Administration Pays Duke Energy $129 Million to Halt Offshore Wind Farm

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Where data centers are leading to higher costs, it's because of constrained grids and capacity markets that aren't working. A ratepayer protection pledge might get hyperscalers to pay for some substations, but won't fix these market issues heatmap.news/politics/rat...

Big tech comapnies are at least open — if not outright supportive — of bills and pledges that could put them on the hook for billions of dollars of costs. Why? heatmap.news/politics/rat...

Will the Ratepayer Protection Act Protect Ratepayers or Big Tech?

Hyperscalers might be paying billions to avoid blame for rising electricity prices.

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Fascinating issue of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's newsletter today on deforestation and trade. I had no idea that most deforestation in Brazil related to beef production is driven by demand in Brazil itself... hannahritchie.substack.com/p/deforestat...

This is so cool. Such an incredible resource!

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

After 18 months of R&D with a team of specialist academics, I'm VERY excited to say that @carbonbrief.org has just launched 'Project Cosmos'... ...the world's largest database of climate research Our hope is this becomes a major new resource interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/index...

Really sad news. Such a big loss for Inside Climate News and environmental journalism broadly. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

James Bruggers, longtime environmental 'watchdog' for Kentucky, dies

James Bruggers, whose decades of environmental reporting in Kentucky and beyond helped win cleaner air and cleaner water, is dead at 68.

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Did you know that @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social is now writing a nightly briefing for our subscribers? A short missive analyzing the news of the day. Yesterday’s was a banger. heatmap.news/daily/trump-...

Trump’s War on Gigawatts

A natural gas well in Kansas is not the same as an offshore wind farm in Maine.

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Part 2 of 3 of my decarbonization series: what we're doing wrong and some real world data on hybrid HVAC. What do you agree or disagree with? What stands out to you? #heatpumps www.latitudemedia.com/news/why-hom...

Why home electrification is moving so slowly

Heat pumps do their job. The defaults we've wrapped around them don't.

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Breaking: Trump made another deal to pay an offshore wind developer to walk away from all 4 of its leases, this time with Invenergy. More details in Heatmap. heatmap.news/energy/trump...

Trump Pays $765 Million to Kill 4 More Offshore Wind Leases

The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.

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great story by @emilypont.bsky.social about anthropic finally getting involved in the climate discussion while also likely having a very carbon intensive energy footprint heatmap.news/climate/anth...

Anthropic Is Buying Carbon Removal — But Not Clean Power

That may be not be the case for long, though, as the AI company poaches energy talent from Google, Meta, the DOE, and others.

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