Alec Gerlach

Opinion | The budget bill’s surprising lessons for climate and clean energy Republicans showed they support clean energy policies that have economic benefits — as many of them do.

Read Nat’s full column wapo.st/44Gc7IZ

Today in the Washington Post, @NatKeohane looks at the “very real setback” of the reconciliation bill for climate action, but also points to where clean energy proponents had a strong hand to play for a path forward.

Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia “There’s no such thing as a transgender child,” the far-right group’s co-founder told HuffPost at a convention that platformed speakers fearmongering about LGBTQ+ rights.

Trump’s “parent victim of gender ideology” invite has worked with Mom’s for Liberty and is a well-known anti-trans activist whose personal story is contested by local school district officials

www.huffpost.com/entry/moms-f...

Farley explains why IRA tax credit repeals could risk jobs, tariffs are 'cost and chaos' 'They need to understand that there's a lot of policy uncertainty here,' Ford CEO Jim Farley said, decrying the 'cost and chaos' of Trump tariffs.

What EV mandate? Ford's CEO literally said your chaos was going to kill jobs www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims

already debunked apnews.com/article/soci... - maybe let the AP back in the briefing room

GreenPower Delivers 88 All-Electric School Buses in West Virginia GreenPower Plans To Deliver 88 all-electric Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST school buses to school districts in West Virginia.

Local jobs helping to maybe rethink that electric vehicle thing?

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) said she’s been “aggressively” working Lee Zeldin, to unfreeze grants for green school buses that are manufactured in her state.
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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.

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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.

“I think it’s very indicative of why the impoundment power is so dangerous,” said Matt Glassman, a former Congressional Research Service staffer. “It creates a sort of favor-factory atmosphere where you’ve got to beg the president for your funding.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"DOE said Tuesday that it had restored a $1.44B loan guarantee to a sustainable aviation fuel maker in Montana. Money for expanding a renewable fuels refinery in Great Falls had been paused pending a review of IRA spending"

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Farley explains why IRA tax credit repeals could risk jobs, tariffs are 'cost and chaos' 'They need to understand that there's a lot of policy uncertainty here,' Ford CEO Jim Farley said, decrying the 'cost and chaos' of Trump tariffs.

Ford CEO Jim Farley: "And many of those jobs will be at risk if the IRA is repealed." Also- "We've already sunk capital-even though we've rationalized it-in battery production and assembly plants all through OH, MI, KY & TN" www.detroitnews.com/story/busine... From @breanacnoble.bsky.social

Introducing “Opinion Contributor” Mitch McConnell:

#Tariffs 🇺🇸
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...

Seems like uncertainty is costing jobs and economic growth....

See also Pitchshifter, Machinehead, Grinspoon, Se7endust, Static X, Coal Chamber......

Key Negotiations & Related Outcomes of the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku This C2ES expert-written summary of COP29 presents the key decisions and outcomes from the climate conference in Baku.

COP29 delivered on its two main objectives: adoption of a New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance and finalization of the outstanding elements of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on carbon markets. But several important issues were left open.

Read @c2es.bsky.social #COP29 summary ⬇️