Eric Wesoff
@ericwesoff.bsky.social
Climate reporter and media exec Canary Media! www.canarymedia.com
Nice story on the controversy over solar in a corner of Idaho. Nice to see the gray areas on issues instead of pretending it can be black and white. (A bit tl:dr though.) 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
An Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.
Solar developments led county officials to ban renewables in 2024. Now, the Republican commissioner who instigated the moratorium is leading the charge to…
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Gavin Newsom is leaving behind a remarkable clean energy legacy. But it’s a bit of a letdown, depending on who you ask. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/gavin-newsom-complicated-clean-energy-legacy
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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Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly
Keep 'em coming "A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an Energy Dept emergency order that kept a Michigan coal plant running months past its planned retirement date, delivering a stinging first blow to the Trump admin’s efforts to hand US coal a lifeline."
Politico@politico.com · last wk.Court deals first blow to Trump’s coal rescue campaign
Battery deployment is soaring, and China is making it possible.
The battery era is here — and China is supplying it
Batteries are taking the energy sector by storm, whether to power vehicles or boost the grid. Most are made, and deployed, in China.
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A federal appeals court threw out a Trump administration order on Friday that had forced a Michigan coal plant to remain open beyond its planned retirement.
US court blocks Trump administration bid to keep Michigan coal plant open
A federal appeals court threw out a Trump administration order on Friday that had forced a Michigan coal plant to remain open beyond its planned retirement.
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BREAKING: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a US Dept. of Energy "emergency" order requiring a Michigan coal plant to remain in operation, siding with ratepayer advocates and others. We'll have more info soon. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-... 🔌💡
Court Rejects Federal Order Keeping Michigan Coal Plant Open
The Energy Department doesn’t have the authority to use emergency powers under federal law to block the closure of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan, the DC Circuit said Friday.
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Looking forward to reading California Wire, your new weekly newsletter, @jeffstjohn.bsky.social! californiawire.substack.com/p/welcome-to... via @canarymedia.com 🔌💡
Welcome to California Wire!
Introducing Canary Media’s newsletter covering California’s clean energy transition.
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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
When Trump blocks clean energy, he raises your costs. Period. Worse, he’s doing it on purpose, to steer your money to his cronies’ expensive fossil fuel plants — a payback to his big donors, at your expense. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Clean energy still beats fossil fuels on cost, despite, well,…
Even as renewables lose federal incentives and face other hurdles, Lazard finds onshore wind and large-scale solar again have the lowest levelized cost of…
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Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts news.mongabay.com/2026/08/scie...
Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts
The Indian Ocean accounts for about a fifth of global ocean area, with 90% of it reaching deeper than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet). Yet compared to the Pacific and Atlantic, its deep-sea biodiversity is ...
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The President would be best served by understanding the tools at his command — and that tariffs are essentially a wildly inefficient national sales tax best used by developing nations. energytransitionnow.com/trumps-tarif...
Trump’s tariffs will blow up energy prices for Americans and clobber the US economy - Energy Transition Now
Shouldn’t the person setting tariff rates understand what a tariff does?
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Shouldn’t the person setting tariff rates understand what a tariff does? energytransitionnow.com/trumps-tarif...
Trump’s tariffs will blow up energy prices for Americans and clobber the US economy - Energy Transition Now
Shouldn’t the person setting tariff rates understand what a tariff does?
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Pretending to rename a lake is an attempted distraction from the President's disastrous trade talks with Canada. While Rochester families deal with the impacts of a trade war he started, President Trump is playing games with a map. We deserve better than this.
Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America,' denies claim he'd interfere with Canadians speaking French
Just like the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario is a shared international waterway and multiple international, federal, and regional agencies oversee it.
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They've been "overwhelmed" by my FOIA requests and can't take the heat on the phone so they claim the lines are bad and hang up on me... theintercept.com/2016/04/20/h...
How a Simple Request Got Me Blacklisted by the Pentagon
Military officials stopped answering a reporter's emails and calls about overseas bases, so he filed FOIA requests. The Pentagon was not pleased.
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i think every car company that backed this man is going to get exactly what they deserve.
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 4w agoMeanwhile on Truth Social... Trump spends the morning trashing Canada and lauding Kim Jong Un.
One of the few people in the world who is able to claim an absolute union victory over Jeff Bezos. I bet he wakes up in a cold sweat over this. Here’s to many more.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 4w agoWearing @postguild.bsky.social red today. I was able to challenge my @washingtonpost.com firing — and win reinstatement plus back pay — all thanks to being a part of the @wbng.org Guild. Binding Arbitration is a part of our contract. This is why unions matter!!!
Farmers hate Democrats. But Democrats insist on being John Cusack holding the boom box outside their house. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/o...
Opinion | Democrats Can Finally Stop Pandering to Farmers (Published 2025)
There’s a silver lining to the so-called big, beautiful bill for Democrats.
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They'll still vote Republican. It's time for Democrats to stop pandering to the 1% of Americans who produce food and start focusing on the 100% of Americans who consume food.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4w agoFarmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.
The number of people who work in web development and UX who have decided "everyone actually wants Clippy now" is truly astonishing.
Matt Shipman (he/him)@shiplives.bsky.social · 4w agoDear web designers: repeatedly imploring me to use your "AI assistant" will not make me use it. It will, however, get me to stop visiting your website (if I can); or to resent you and your company (if I cannot).
"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad
You can feel the sheer exhaustion and heartbreak in their voices. No family should have to beg for justice after losing their child.😌
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
"What did he do to deserve to be murdered, to be left cold, on the ground, dead, my child? What did he do? ... they don't care ... I expect an apology. Why shouldn't we get one?" -- Alex Pretti's mom
‘many panel manufacturers say they also must pay a higher cost on the upstream components necessary to make the solar panels the domestic industry desperately needs…pushes price of domestic panels higher, which may make them more (!!!) expensive than foreign panels at minimum import price (38¢/W).’
Solar panel makers and buyers have mixed feelings on Sec. 232 tariffs
The U.S. solar industry is still determining the effects of the Sec. 232 tariffs on polysilicon and its derivatives. Besides a handful of manufacturers
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