Tom DiChristopher

Dear new parents: Fantastic Four: First Steps will destroy you. Bring tissues. Or just wipe your face with Wet Ones.

Triggering flashbacks of covering the slow-motion unraveling of Scott Pruitt’s brief tenure as EPA administrator.

Israeli minister says returning hostages not ‘the most important goal’ Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should conquer and reoccupy the Gaza Strip for “total victory” against Hamas.

In which Bezalel Smotrich says the quiet part out loud: The chief goal of the war is not to return Israeli hostages to their families; it’s to annex the Gaza Strip and permanently remove Palestinians from their land.

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It is shocking how difficult it is as a lone father to find a place to change your baby at Moynihan Station. Ended up changing my son in a booth at the Food Hall, which seems like not the outcome anyone wants. It is the year of our Lord 2025, @amtrak.com, @mta.info

Thanks for sharing your policy paper. It gives me something to think about.

Given that he’s already gotten the board to OK private & public upstream investments and has a proposal before the trustees to divest midstream/downstream investments, I wonder if this might simply be a difference of opinion on prioritizing political capital, which is a limited resource.

My understanding is that changes to investment strategy like the one you’re seeking require board review to assess the impact on pension fund performance. That’s the comptroller’s fiduciary duty as a steward of city workers’ retirement savings.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I haven’t interviewed him about this, but one thought I had is that he’s advancing a midstream/downstream divestment proposal that requires review by the board of trustees.

This is bizarre to me. Is there another viable mayoral candidate who would be a more willing ally to climate advocates than Lander? He has the endorsement of NY HEAT Act sponsor Liz Krueger. I’m genuinely curious what the strategic thinking is behind publicly humiliating and undermining him.

"I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career” — Trump’s energy and trade policy undermines the US oil and gas industry that he aims to bolster, executives say in the latest Dallas Fed Survey. From my colleague Bill Holland.

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Slams work laptop shut until August. My second stretch of parental leave starts just in time for baseball season. See you just before Bills preseason, folks.

As policies to phase out gas use face legal challenges, this marks another case of a large city incentivizing heat pumps. A year ago, Washington DC adopted a law to stack local incentives on top of Inflation Reduction Act funds to electrify low-income homes. www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

Boston partners with Eversource Energy and National Grid on a $150M program to install 5,000 electric heat pumps and weatherize 10,000 buildings over the next three years, via my colleague Noah Schwartz at @spci.bsky.social. Read more here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

California's Future of Gas proceeding is entering a major new phase: Determining near-term steps to facilitate a managed transition away from natural gas use, including by requiring gas utilities to consider non-pipeline alternatives to fossil fuel projects. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

A US district court upheld NYC's gas ban for new buildings, the 1st major decision since a US appeals court knocked down Berkeley's ban in 2023. Here's what this could mean for the many legal challenges to US building decarb policy that followed the Berkeley ruling: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It? Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/14/2025 · 1h 1m

For anyone who wants a helpful framework for how to think about and process the competing economic visions within the Trump admin — especially as it applies to tariffs — I found this conversation with FT columnist Gillian Tett very useful.

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Thanks for the heads up. My story is working its way through the editing queue now.

Hey hey! 11 years ago today, this fresh-faced reporter with baby duck hair was about to board a plane to visit his sister in China.

ICYMI: All of the scenario planning conducted to inform New Jersey's next Energy Master Plan found that natural gas demand will plunge more than 70% by 2050 as the state pursues its climate goals. Meanwhile, electricity demand will roughly double. Read here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

No Deal: President Trump & NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ended today's WH meeting without an energy bargain - but will keep talking about trading Hochul's support for the defunct Constitution Pipeline project for Trump's backing of NYC congestion pricing & other items. More: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

Freshman Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, will chair the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, the subcommittee with oversight of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and that typically has a hand in crafting periodic pipeline safety bills.

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Perhaps the least believable thing in Captain America: Brave New World is that the top priority in the president’s first 100 days agenda is a foreign policy issue.

I want to go to there.

Puget Sound Energy will partner with Modern Hydrogen to help large gas utility customers deploy on-site hydrogen production & carbon capture and utilization tech. The goal is to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, which face tough Washington emission limits. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

Regulators in climate-focused states are mulling the idea of retiring parts of gas utility systems. Last week, NY's regulator directed 2 gas utilities to explore decarbonization strategies like building electrification rather than replace leak-prone pipe. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

Reversal of Biden's building electrification initiatives. Tax credits for RNG. A lighter-touch on methane leak detection rules. Permitting reform that limits pipeline project challenges.

With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

Casual Friday

TVA, Bechtel partner on initial planning for a small modular nuclear reactor in Tennessee that could be the nation's first utility-scale SMR. 🔌💡

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And now that the baby is fed just before my 5:15am alarm goes off, it’s off to get an early start on writing up some gas transition regulation in New York and Colorado.

ANALYSIS | Trump's threats reveal the trouble with Canada's pipelines running through the U.S. | CBC News Canada's crude oil exports give this country powerful leverage in any trade war with the United States. But interconnectedness is a double-edged sword: the U.S. also controls pipelines that flow into ...

Today’s 3:30am baby feeding reading: How the deepening of Canada-US pipeline interconnection in recent decades complicates Canada’s ability to exploit US reliance on Canadian crude in a looming trade war. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...