Clare Fieseler, PhD

Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales The former president blamed wind farms for a spike in whale deaths - but his claims don't stand up.

There’s no evidence that offshore wind kills whales. But you know what does kill whales? Commercial fishing kills at least 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.

This chart.

Damn.

And I've heard not a peep from the GOP lawmakers who went to all those ribbon cutting ceremonies at the factories.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

(chart by @danmccarthy.bsky.social)

This chart.

Damn.

And I've heard not a peep from the GOP lawmakers who went to all those ribbon cutting ceremonies at the factories.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

(chart by @danmccarthy.bsky.social)

Here's the NASA Wallops Island report: www.boem.gov/sites/defaul...

Offshore wind leasing is officially dead under Trump Over 3.5 million acres of federal waters are no longer eligible for offshore wind development following an order from the Interior Department.

Fun fact: NASA gets involved with picking the sites for future U.S. offshore wind farms 🚀

Example: NASA has a launch site on VA's Wallops Island and in 2024 assessed where turbines would interfere with instruments and radio frequencies.

Read more in my story about the death of wind energy leasing👇

Offshore wind leasing is officially dead under Trump Over 3.5 million acres of federal waters are no longer eligible for offshore wind development following an order from the Interior Department.

“My read on this is that there is not going to be any leasing for offshore wind in the near future,” said a career employee at the Interior Department, who Canary Media granted anonymity to speak freely for fear of retribution.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Many thanks, Colin!

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YouTube video by Vattenfall A taste of fossil freedom

"Motherf*ckin windfarms.

Loud. Ugly. Harmful to nature.

Who says that?

These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels,

rising out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2."

Wow. This ad campaign w/ Samuel Jackson is something else. Should I write about it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bunG...

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

There are new still species to discover.

But entirely new ecosystems??

Introducing: A new deep-sea ecosystem discovered around cold-water chemical seeps in the Pacific Ocean. It's the deepest ecosystem ever found!

@dinograndoni.bsky.social has the story based on a @nature.com paper out today. 🦑

Climate This report evaluates existing peer-reviewed literature and government data on climate impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and provides a critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate c...

Some truly outrageous stuff on the new "climate" page: www.energy.gov/topics/climate. Apparently we still haven't moved on from the same zombie science myths. Embarrassing!

Just DM me!

Thanks Sandra. I co-produced the film and it took a long time to make so the kind word mean a lot!

Timeline cleanse. This is WILD—and also some of the best #scicomm I’ve read in a long time plus a short doc film. Science for the win. 🧪 ⚒️ 🤯

Thanks for opening up your lab for us, Jeff.

I love the way you describe the life that lives on top of the nodules that mining companies want to sell for profit:

“They seem sort of negligible from our perspective. But these are the huge sequoias of the abyssal plain.” - @jjmarlow.bsky.social

Thanks for all your help Tony — the first seed of this is when you helped me write my first @pulitzercenter.bsky.social grant to begin covering this topic. 💪

'Nodules' documentary explores mystery of deep-sea mining damage off South Carolina New documentary about deep-sea mining of rare materials in “Nodules” shows in vivid detail the damage mining creates on fragile seabeds off South Carolina.

Rocks that produce oxygen?

A new documentary by @fieseler.bsky.social explores these vulnerable mystery rocks off South Carolina.

With support from @pulitzercenter.bsky.social
@postandcourier.bsky.social

www.postandcourier.com/news/special...

Handsome and witty!

Bookmarking

Great documentary with amazing imagery, story telling, and sound science. Go watch now.

Yes. My documentary out and I am very tired. 🥱

Please watch! 👇

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

I’m on vacation all week but had to share.

“Journalism for humans, by humans.”

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Tax credit cuts in Trump’s megabill imperil two fully approved wind… The “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes rollbacks of clean energy incentives that at least two offshore wind projects rely on to pencil out financially,…

"We don’t predict any new offshore wind projects starting construction … at least in the next four years,” BloombergNEF's Harrison Sholler told @fieseler.bsky.social two days before passage of the GOP budget reconciliation bill: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡

First Turbine Up at 1.2 GW Baltic Power Offshore Wind Farm in Poland The first of 76 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines has been installed at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland.

:: Poland has entered the chat. ::

Europe's fastest growing economy just installed its first offshore wind turbine with 75 more waiting at the docks.

www.offshorewind.biz/2025/07/07/f...

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Tax credit cuts in Trump’s megabill imperil two fully approved wind… The “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes rollbacks of clean energy incentives that at least two offshore wind projects rely on to pencil out financially,…

Read more here 👇

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Analysts told me that it will be nearly impossible to find a bank that will underwrite the construction of MarWin now.

It was slated to be Maryland’s first offshore wind farm. But if there is a chance that it’s not going to qualify for tax credits — the upfront building costs are too expensive.

How does this impact real wind projects?

MarWin, the first phase of a 114-turbine project off the Md./Del. Delmarva Peninsula, is slated for installation in 2028 with onshore construction *possibly* starting next year. But they don’t have financing yet in place. 😬

“If you take away the tax credits, it doesn’t make much sense to develop an entirely new (energy) sector,” Dr. Elizabeth Wilson told me.

She’s a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College who studies offshore wind policy.

A BloombergNEF report released in April said that:

1) Rolling back clean energy tax credits 45Y & 48E would be ​“devastating” for U.S. wind projects already in the pipeline.

2) Electricity produced by offshore wind farms that qualify for the tax credits costs 24% less over a project’s lifetime. 🤯