David Kleimann

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

The Looming Legal Risk Facing Trump’s Tariffs Inside the room with the judges who will decide their future.

"The Looming Legal Risk Facing Trump’s Tariffs: Inside the room with the judges who will decide their future"

Good piece on yesterday's IEEPA tariff hearing (make sure to read the interesting footnote at end!)

CBAM corner: some comments on Russia's WTO legal challenge against the EU's CBAM and ETS free allowances for @contexte.com

One doesn’t preclude the other.

Cruel! Fingers crossed there will be a recording.

ICYMI: Judicial proceedings against Trump's IEEPA tariffs go into the next instance tomorrow at 4pm CET. Watch the hearing live on the US Court of Appeals YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHI5...

It's 🇪🇺🇺🇸 golf course 'trade deal' implementation o'clock.

What are the EU legal paths? Will the European Parliament be involved? I shared some thoughts with @janosallamm.bsky.social @table.media shorturl.at/IMl6p

Let that sink in for a minute.

(There were 46,728 victims of gun violence in the United States in 2023)

"In fact, it is entirely possible ... that the entire burden of paying the new taxes will fall on Americans via some combination of higher private indebtedness and a wider-than-expected budget deficit, with foreigners entirely unaffected."

Europe’s ‘good as it gets’ trade deal redefines ties with Washington A profoundly asymmetric trade deal with the US leaves the EU weakened, but Brussels says it could have been a lot worse.

A lopsided trade deal with the US leaves the EU in a weakened position — but Brussels insists it has narrowly avoided a far more damaging full-scale trade war

My latest for The Parliament mag

www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

Conventional wisdom says the EU makes European states stronger in trade negotiations - and that’s usually true. But the EU’s submission we just witnessed shows how it can work the other way as well.

VDL is not accountable to any voters, so she can politically survive the humiliation, while…

Donald Trump’s EU oil and gas deal is ‘pie in the sky’, energy experts warn Analysts dismiss plan but executives welcome sign of more support for fossil fuel exports

Trump’s EU oil and gas deal is ‘pie in the sky’, energy experts warn https://on.ft.com/4mi1fs2

Plot twist: On July 31, the US Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case challenging Trump’s legal justifications of reciprocal tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act - live-streamed on YouTube.

www.cafc.uscourts.gov/notice-for-o...

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump France has been urged to shun Maga America as #BoycottUSA hashtag spreads, but teenagers say they can’t afford to join the action

Beyond cars, we are importers of trade in tourism & education - which are already taking a deep dive - as well as all sorts of digital services - some of which can be substituted/switched off. Some anecdotal evidence below.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Under-fire EU says trade deal with Trump was best it could do Critics say Brussels should have taken a tougher line — but the bloc’s trade chief maintains that was easier said than done.

Brussels says it struck the best trade deal it could with Washington — even if Paris and other European capitals aren’t buying it.

Funny, cuz it’s true! 🫠

How US handles Section 232 tariffs on EU pharma products will be interesting. EU thinks it got a promise of tariffs no higher than 15%. But based on what Trump said about reshoring domestic production of pharma products ("we want them made in the US"), I'm not sure he believes he made that promise.

It is still unclear to me whether EU tariff reductions on Agri and Industrial will be MFN or exclusively for the US. You write 'on US goods'...🤔

This is right on target.

These two are some of the very rare good takes I've seen so far.

EU officials expect there to be a joint statement with the US on yesterday's deal - not-legally binding.

This is expected to be along the lines of the US-Indonesia statement from roughly a week ago.

EU investment and purchasing commitments vis-a-vis the US are a mixture of the Juncker-Trump Rose Garden statement and the US-China phase I 'deal': a nothing burger - well documented here. 👇

"Weyand has consistently argued for a stronger stance towards Trump and the use of the EU’s retaliation tools, in opposition to the more dovish von der Leyen, multiple diplomats and officials told the FT." shorturl.at/qwStF

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller Relief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start

on.ft.com/471fKvG How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller

Nice hint, thanks

It would have taken foresight and early de-risking from the US. Hopelessly unprepared.

Europe was hopelessly unprepared for Russian aggression and now for the US going rogue, neither of which were really unforeseeable. Now all it can do with the US is limit damage, plámás Trump, and buy time.

Bitter optics, well summarized.

Deal reached #EU #US #tarrifs 🇪🇺🇺🇸My first assessment:not satisfactory.This is a lopsided deal.Concessions have clearly been made that are difficult to accept. Deal with significant imbalance. Furthermore lot of questions still open.E.g. Standstillclause? More concrete numbers?