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Narrator: by worthless, he means extremely cheap.

Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

Someone should tell Chris Wright about how we dealt with asbestos
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A lot needs to happen right on #battery supply chain diversification for #energystorage wave to materialize

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EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

This is where I post from

Would the objective be to minimize the mean or the median wait time?

Dear All Journalists,

You don’t have to credit the line “Tariffs will hit American consumers” to “economists say”.

Thanks

Commentary: Republican budget bill would slaughter America's cleanest, cheapest energy It's hard to find reasons for optimism. But we're not doomed.

‘Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”…would kill federal support for solar and wind power, undoing President Biden’s historic climate law and punishing Americans with deadlier air, more lethal heat waves and higher electric bills.’

Via @sammyroth.bsky.social

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Trump Will ‘Deal’ with Wind and Solar Tax Credits in Megabill, GOP Congressman Says “We had enough assurance that the president was going to deal with them.”

NEW: At least one House Freedom Caucus member is looking for Trump to "deal with" IRA tax credits before they vote yes on the megabill

thanks for putting up with and refining my attempts at politics reporting @jael.bsky.social

REPEAT Project just completed our rapid analysis of the impacts of the Senate-passed version of the One Big "Beautiful" Bill (OBBB), which the House is considering now, on the US energy sector and emissions. Still working up full report, but here is a sneak peak...
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Narrative 1: China is dumping cheap solar panels onto the world by unfairly subsidizing its solar industry.

Narrative 2: US, Russia, Saudi are dumping cheap oil and gas onto the world by unfairly subsidizing production and transport.

Both can be defended with facts. Which one do you hear more?

Opinion | The GOP’s big, fat warning sign to the bond market This is not how budgeting should work.

Republicans finally found a way to bring down costs. All it took was magically declaring expensive things to be free.
At least, that’s the lesson of OBBB, whose Senate passage today required reinventing the laws of accounting.
A look at the big fat warning sign the GOP just gave to the bond market:

“This is the modern version of book burning.”

Sorry small correction - the solar/wind excise tax is out. No word yet on phase-outs of existing credits.

In Heatmap, @azevin.bsky.social & I explain how the web of "foreign entity" rules in the GOP budget bill is certain to backfire.

It's an "impossible bind" where the U.S. companies working the *hardest* to onshore supply chains are penalized the *most*. Their tech will end up right back in China.

One vote tonight took 43 minutes — not a blistering pace. Looks like Rs may be slow-walking while they keep working on the bill.

The GOP Tax Bill Will Destabilize Tomorrow's Power Grid The intensified attack on wind and solar power threatens capacity at a time when AI demand for electricity is surging.

The GOP Senate tax bill is wrecking ball for the power grid
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Economic Impacts of U.S. Senate “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Energy Provisions • Energy Innovation The Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.

The bill the Senate is voting on right now would reduce US power generation through 2035 by 300GW, raise wholesale & retail power prices, increase household energy costs, reduce national GDP, & kill 100s of 1000s of jobs.

I mean, this isn't "public grocery store" bad, but it's pretty bad!

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

I couldn't make it through this story yesterday, but everyone needs to read it.

“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.”

First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.

Seeing a lot of discussion about the birthright citizenship case: the very issue is upsetting, the consequences (even at this preliminary stage) could be dire. But I think the truly alarming case from Friday is Mahmoud v Taylor, the “LGBTQ opt-out” case.

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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

EXCLUSIVE @npr.org: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Those market expectations are really frightening because they signal the kind of economic weakness that precisely cuts against new investment.

To Sharon's point, I think that sets up future underinvestment-related supply shocks (big point in electricity discourse today re the new OBBB text)

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

Murkowski votes aye!

JD Vance is likely going to have to break the tie on this procedural vote to advance Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

That should tell you where the GOP is on this politically.

To pass the only real legislation Trump has proposed, Vance needs to come the rescue. He can't do that in the House.

Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”