Trump on the apparent Iranian cyberattack in MN: "I think Minnesota is behind it. You know who's behind it? Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent. I think the governor's behind it. I don't think there was an Iranian cyber attack."
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The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
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The Trump has discussed charging some ships fees to transit the Strait of Hormuz, three people tell @benlefebvre.bsky.social and I. The "VIP pass" would guarantee "expedited escorted passage." www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
‘VIP pass’: Trump administration mulling how to coax more oil tankers through Hormuz
Despite the president calling Hormuz open for business, ship owners remain wary of testing the waters.
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Don't miss this killer story from Corbin, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and Lesley Clark on the quiet forces aligning to attack climate research.
Corbin Hiar@corbinhiar.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Republican lawmakers and oil industry allies are seeking to discredit a forthcoming National Academies report on weather attribution science — a field of climate research that could cost fossil fuel companies billions of dollars. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Will this be imported to the US? It costs less than $10k and should scare US automakers as much as China's EV industry does if it's successful.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo agoapparently the Mexican government has backed a new super cheap EV van, 100 percent made in Mexico, that looks sick as hell www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is exact playbook the Trump administration is using to destroy federal climate research, which is inextricably linked to weather prediction. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s efforts to chainsaw the federal government can happen too fast for the courts or Congress to counte...
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Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: The Trump administration said it had moved so far, so fast on the White House ballroom that it was to late for the courts to intervene. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
A judge paused the Trump administration's dismantling of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social, one of the world's top climate and weather research facilities. But it's just one small part of a much larger ongoing White House effort to snuff out federal climate research. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s efforts to chainsaw the federal government can happen too fast for the courts or Congress to counte...
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Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels
Diesel prices are likely days away from breaking record high because of the Iran war. Diesel is the economic backbone of the US economy, and drives inflation while raising the cost of virtually everything. It's another hit to Republicans gearing up for midterms. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
Diesel price spike raises stakes for Trump, GOP ahead of midterms
A surge in diesel costs is set to ripple through the U.S. economy, raising prices on everything from groceries to housing and adding new political risk for Republicans.
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Trump, Treasury Sec. Bessent and other admin officials are claiming Iran will soon feel such significant financial pressure that they'll cut a deal. But the worst financial pressure is months away and if Hormuz is not opened by then, the global and domestic economic pain will be substantial.
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoTrump bets on quick Iran oil crunch. Experts see prolonged pain and rising costs.
Anthony Constantino's campaign hired a "support agent" to help with the candidate's communications; a simple Google search would have revealed that Alec Flores was (and is) facing a murder charge for allegedly slashing or stabbing a man to death in June 2023.
Constantino campaign hired man facing murder charge in Nevada
Anthony Constantino's campaign hired someone to help manage his online presence. The person they hired had been arrested on open murder charges the year before, with the case still ongoing.
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"There's a day of reckoning coming." Energy analysts believe Trump's jawboning of the oil market is artificially keeping prices too low when they should be higher to reflect the reality caused by the Iran war. A correction is coming. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
‘There’s a day of reckoning coming’: Energy experts expect another spike at the pump
Trump's jawboning of the markets is sending the wrong signals to oil producers by keeping crude prices artificially low.
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Artemis is "an echo of what America could still be, but is not today, because of the attacks on science," Rep. Whitesides told me. The mission has captured imaginations worldwide—but also casts Trump's deep proposed cuts to federal research into sharp relief. My story: www.eenews.net/articles/art...
Artemis II: Beleaguered federal scientists take a victory lap
As the NASA astronauts return to Earth, President Donald Trump is promoting deep cuts in research funding for the second year in a row.
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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...
Zeldin stars at climate denial conference
The EPA administrator became the first agency chief to speak at the Heartland Institute's annual gathering of people who say climate change benefits humanity.
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Iran has inflicted real political and economic pain on Trump by closing the Strait of Hormuz. Here are four of the widely varying and contradictory accounts Trump has given for how Hormuz will reopen, ahead of his pledge that a "whole civilization will die tonight." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
4 ways Trump has suggested the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened — and why they're a tough lift
President Donald Trump has floated several — at times contradictory — ways for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as Iran’s blockade is already driving up prices and squeezing economies amid an un...
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The Trump White House is now discussing the possibility of $150 a barrel oil. It comes as a supply shock makes it way through Asia, then Europe, then the US. “This is going to be effectively a massive tax that will sap excess disposable income." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
With gas prices on the rise, Trump officials discuss feared $150 oil
White House braces for a potential oil spike to $150 or higher as the Iran war chokes supply
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NEW: NEW: A Houthi-affiliated group tells me they are not planning to close the Bab el-Mandeb strait right now and will continue to let ships pass through. After Hormuz, it's the second major oil and gas shipping route in the Middle East. www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
Houthis pledge to keep open Middle East strait, for now
There is no current plan to shutter the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, a Houthi group told POLITICO’s E&E News.
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If Trump escalates, Iran will likely close a second strait in the Middle East, which will cause another oil price shock. As one expert told me: “We are not in a situation where the Iranians are capitulating as Trump is also desperate for negotiation."
Politico@politico.com · 4mo agoFar from Hormuz, a second Middle East strait enters the crosshairs
It's much easier for Republican-controlled states to get disaster aid from the Trump administration. Trump is rejected disaster aid to Democratic states at the highest rate in FEMA's history. Republican states also get the aid faster, my colleague Tom Frank reports. www.eenews.net/articles/its...
It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump
The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.
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Gas prices are up in every state and the biggest increases are hitting key political battlegrounds. States with competitive races like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan have seen price jumps of at least $1 per gallon. How it's impacting midterms: politi.co/3PmAxDp
Lots of E&E News greats are walking out the door today. A true tragedy.
PEN Guild@pen-guild.bsky.social · 5mo agoAt least 19 of our @eenews.bsky.social Politico Pro colleagues have decided to take the buyout and leave us this week. It's no small amount. Not everyone was offered a buyout @politico.com 1/4
Israel's strike on an Iranian gas field is a new phase of the war, one that might take a long time to come back from if it escalates. An all-out war on Middle Eastern energy infrastructure means it could take months or years to return to normal. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Strike on key Iranian gas field is a new phase of the war. Trump blames Israel.
Israel’s targeting of the South Pars gas field is a major escalation in the war that energy watchers feared could turbocharge the economic disruption.
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Trump is poised to take Iran's Kharg Island and its oil-exporting facility. It's a very risky move that could put more US troops directly in harm's way and possibly create lasting economic challenges that will dog him and the GOP for the rest of his tenure. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump is poised to take Iran’s Kharg Island. Here’s what could unfold next.
The president’s attacks on Iran’s oil infrastructure could determine the course of the war — and its domestic political fallout.
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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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It's not just oil. The Strait of Hormuz is also a primary shipping route for helium, which is essential to the manufacturing of semiconductors, the backbone of modern life. It's also used in MRIs, welding and party balloons. Price inflation could soon follow. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
It's not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation.
Garden supplies, birthday balloons and semiconductors could get hit by price inflation or shortages.
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"Last year, $239 million was traded on Kalshi’s climate markets — the fifth-most of any prediction category, according to data provided by the company. The volume of trading on its climate markets is on pace to grow to more than $1.2 billion." www.eenews.net/articles/you...
You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming
Traders are placing wagers on the likelihood of disasters, activists being jailed and oil depots exploding.
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Even if the Iran war ended today, it would take months for energy markets to go back to normal, experts tell me. And the longer the fighting continues, the higher the risks for "the worst recession that anyone has seen since the 1930s." www.eenews.net/articles/why...
Why high oil prices may outlast Trump’s Iran war
Tanker backlogs, damaged energy infrastructure and threats in the Strait of Hormuz could keep gasoline prices elevated.
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“I don’t want to brag, but no other president can do the shit I’m doing," Trump told GOP members of Congress just now.
And the war on energy infrastructure in the Gulf region has just begun. How quickly could it hit $4 a gallon? www.eenews.net/articles/nig...
‘Nightmare scenarios’: Iran hits oil targets, testing Trump’s Teflon
The regime’s attacks on tankers and refineries could reverberate through the U.S. economy ahead of midterms.
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Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe week started with just 8 states gas prices averaging over $3/gal, but it will likely finish on Sunday with 45 states over $3.