EPA's recent rollback of climate pollution limits ignores health impacts, will lead to significantly more coal generation, and seeks to limit any future efforts to regulate climate emissions from the power sector: zealan.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Five Things to Know About EPA’s Power Plant Repeal

The numbers behind the administration’s rollback of carbon standards

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Every President has a moment when they learn -- painfully -- that there is very little they can do quickly to bring down gasoline prices. @politico.com

Nearly 20% of the world’s oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. A sustained conflict could significantly impact U.S. energy prices, AI data center economics, and the pace of the clean energy transition. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/zealan/p...

Epic Fury in Global Energy Markets

What closure of the Strait of Hormuz could mean for the domestic energy prices, AI data centers, and the transition to renewables.

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The Bolt is back! Great to see a domestic EV with over 250 miles of range at <$30,000. www.caranddriver.com/news/a689884...

The murder of Charlie Kirk — and the rhetoric that’s followed — has me more concerned than ever about America’s direction. I wrote my thesis on conflict in Northern Ireland. What I see here feels eerily familiar to that violent conflict between Catholics & Protestants. 🧵

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now is not the time to be throttling cheap wind and solar. Electricity prices are up 6.5% in the past year with major jumps in places as diverse as Maine (+36%), Utah (+15%), and Louisiana (+14%). See here: www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Republican's proposed tax provisions that dropped today are as bad as they could be.

Kristina Costa@slashklc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 BLUF on Republican Ways & Means text: This is nothing short of full repeal of the clean energy incentives that have spurred $400b+ in private-sector investment. This bill will kill 100s of thousands of jobs in construction and manufacturing and raise energy costs for everyone. Full stop.

Every article and post on immigration should come with a disclaimer that over 95% of Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.

Now is a good time to stockpile a year’s worth of bananas. Follow me for more tariff advice.

A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

@charliesavage.bsky.social captures the current state of play as agencies continue to avoid clear judicial orders

Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump Team Finds Loophole to Defy Spirit of Court Orders Blocking Spending Freezes Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

New York City's congestion pricing has been a slam dunk policy. Today's effort by DOT to pull the plug just means more traffic, more crime, and more pollution. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

NYC New Liberals@nycnewliberals.org · 2y ago

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

Here's my explainer on why $20 billion to finance clean energy was deployed through Citibank. It's far less salacious and far more rigorous than Lee Zeldin implies. Read more: zealan.substack.com/p/epa-citiba... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

EPA chief says Biden was ‘irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash,’ vows to get back $20 billion

Lee Zeldin’s move escalates President Donald Trump’s efforts to freeze federal money for climate projects.

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If Republicans are the party of no government, Democrats cannot be the party of slow and cumbersome government. Inability to build housing pushes families out of cities. Slow renewables and transmission buildout leads to higher energy bills. Expensive, delayed projects sap support…

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2y ago

"If progressives put making government work not on the periphery of the movement’s agenda but at its center, voters might be less vulnerable to the sirens of the populist right," Marc J. Dunkelman writes:

It's incredibly sad to hear hundreds of EPA staff are being fired today without cause, without due process, and with disregard to the impacts for public health and the environment. It's too early to know the specifics but a random walk through EPA press releases shows the important work at stake:

As we end week 3 of the #FundingFreeze here is the latest at EPA: +2,000+ grants to all 50 states +$20 billion in frozen $$$ +Grants to states, local governments, Tribes & nonprofits to reduce energy prices & fight pollution +No communication from EPA to its grantees docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As thousands of dedicated public servants are fired tonight, remember that payroll is only 4% of the federal budget. This will not change the federal fiscal position. It will imperil public health and safety, and degrade public services. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

DOGE allegations of fraud are a smokescreen to cut programs they don’t like but don’t have the votes to cut in Congress. Don’t fall for it.

It's an apropos time to recommend The Gulf - Jack Davis' incredible environmental history that won a 2018 Pulitzer. A page-turning, tragic account of environmental degradation over centuries and the importance of robust regulations for the common good. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

The Making of an American Sea

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The intersection of climate action, affordable housing, and human-centered transit is the most exciting policy can get. I hope more cities follow Cambridge's lead!

Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem@burhanazeem.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

Monday #FundingFreeze Status: Clear as mud. At the end of last week, some grantees started to have access to their accounts restored. Then, on Friday evening EPA sent an internal communication directing a "program review pause." Some of those same grantees had their funding turned back off today.

@bikeshare.bsky.social continues to crush it with 6.1 million rides in the DC metro last year and hundreds of thousands even in the dead of winter. By far the region's single best climate initiative. H/t to @ggwash.org for the great graphics and coverage: ggwash.org/view/98229/b...

In a positive update on Friday afternoon, EPA's acting deputy administrator has issued a directive to release "any disbursements on open grant awards that were paused." It appears that a growing number of IRA grants are regaining access to their accounts after two weeks of chaos and disruption.

Search EPA's frozen grants here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's been two weeks since the Trump Administration froze $20+ billion for EPA's climate and environmental justice programs. Projects across the country are now either paying out-of-pocket to float the federal government or shutting down operations. #FundingFreeze

Administrator Regan created the EJ Office to bring together disparate functions across EPA and ensure the Agency was working effectively to help ALL communities facing disproportionate adverse health and environmental impacts. Most, if not all, staff are now on Admin Leave and their future is TBD.

Mason Hickok@masonhickok.bsky.social · 2y ago

A truly disheartening move. Aside from these employees, the people most affected by this are those disproportionately affected by environmental pollution, as noted in the article.

Evening Update on the #FundingFreeze: Over $20 billion remains frozen at in spite of multiple judicial orders. The Departments of Energy, Agriculture, and others also have funds frozen -- predominantly funds for clean energy and environmental justice programs. #GreenSky #EnergySky

Powerful, well-sourced stories of the #FundingFreeze in this article. But let's be clear: tens of billions of dollars are still frozen in spite of clear judicial orders to the contrary.

Jessica Silver-Greenberg@jsgatnyt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...