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Deadly Alaska Storm Hit After a Month of Wider Forecast Errors Scientists say outages at federal monitoring sites in the state may have contributed to confusion over the storm’s predicted track.

NEW: Weather models were performing worse ahead of a devastating storm in Alaska compared to a year ago. As one scientist @ecmwf.int put it, "the fact that all the models mis-captured this event tells us something." From me + @joewertz.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Orders for turbines for natural gas power plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand

🧵 Thread on how we got here and what it means for power-hungry nations

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Trump Set to Cancel West Coast Hydrogen Hubs Amid Shutdown Fight The Trump administration is planning to cancel billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as part of its first tranche of funding cuts following the go...

SCOOP: The Trump administration canceling billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as it seeks to pressure Democrats in shutdown fight.

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Nations Rethink Plans for Brazil Climate Summit as Costs Soar The countries most vulnerable to climate change face a dearth of rooms and steep rates to attend the COP30 meeting in the Amazon.

Barely a month before COP30, the main topic remains "logistics". There's barely been any discussion about what the US, which is set to leave Paris Agreement in January, will be doing to make negotiations harder.

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AI-Powered Model Gives Energy Traders Hourly Forecasts Seven Months Out The tool from tech firm Amperon provides a more granular look at the weather and its impact on power markets.

Utilities + traders are "craving" more detailed forecasts as power demand gets harder and harder to predict. Using AI, a tech firm is pushing to predict swings in weather - down to the hour - months in advance.

Story with @naurtorious.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Drought Gripping the US Northeast, NYC Raises Fears of Autumn Wildfires Waterways and wells are running dry in parts of New England and trees in New York City are already shedding their leaves as a late-summer drought engulfs the US Northeast, raising the risk of wildfire...

It's officially fall! And more than 80% of the Northeast is in drought or teetering on the edge of it. Why that's cause for concern: (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Drought Gripping the US Northeast, NYC Raises Fears of Autumn Wildfires Waterways and wells are running dry in parts of New England and trees in New York City are already shedding their leaves as a late-summer drought engulfs the US Northeast, raising the risk of wildfire...

More than 80% of the region is now abnormally dry or in drought, compared to just 11% this time last September. Some parts of the Northeast have gone weeks without significant rains — akin to conditions less than a year ago that led to a historic outbreak of brush fires.

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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

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How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US

A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me

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Trump’s Ex-FEMA Chief Says Killing Agency Puts Public at ‘Extreme Risk’ Cameron Hamilton’s tenure was short and marked by a struggle over the agency’s future.

Trump's ex-FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton speaks out against push to abolish the agency.

“I cannot get behind this position that abolishing FEMA is the answer,” Hamilton said on Disaster Tough podcast, calling such a move "an extreme risk" to the American people.

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Soaring Power Bills in Largest US Grid Pose Risk for Republicans Surging utility bills in key battleground states are threatening to become a political liability for Republicans heading into upcoming elections.

Surging utility bills in key battleground states are threatening to become a political liability for Republicans heading into upcoming elections.

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Paris, New York Commuters Keep Their Cool As Londoners Sweat A look at transportation systems across five global financial centers shows sweaty commuters in the UK capital have a right to feel jealous of some other cities.

Summer commutes in NYC can be miserable - 108F on the platform at City Hall w/ humidity. But New Yorkers are lucky compared to London, where subway cars lack AC + get hotter than city streets.

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Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher The group asked for the retraction of work led by Timmons Roberts and said it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.

NEW: Offshore wind opponents and their lawyers are pressuring a climate lab at Brown U to retract its research, and saying they will escalate their complaint to the Trump administration. Gift link:

Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher The group asked for the retraction of work led by Timmons Roberts and said it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.

NEW: An anti-offshore wind group is targeting a Brown researcher who studies climate obstruction. It's not the first time they've done it, but there's a new twist: They're threatening to go to the Trump administration unless the university retracts the work

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California’s Last Nuclear Plant Is Poised to Stave Off Extinction Diablo Canyon is nearing the end of a long relicensing process as the need for round-the-clock power grows.

California's last nuclear power plant was supposed to be shut down. But now it's on the verge of a 20-year extension, thanks to the state's mounting power needs.

Here's an inside look at Diablo Canyon amid its bid for relicensing (free gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Money Is Raining Down on Green-Tech Firms That Have an AI Story Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable of delivering round-the-clock electricity to power artificial intel...

Companies with a climate proposition are juggling a trade war, rolled back federal support, jittery investors, you name it.

Amid all the chaos, one industry has been propping up clean tech: artificial intelligence.

My latest with @mchediak.bsky.social:
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ICYMI - Story with @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @arinatter.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s moves to stop #solar and #wind development and support other energy sources.

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Trump killed the government's billion-dollar disaster database. Now, it's coming back at @climatecentral.org and being led by the former NOAA scientists who ran it. Nice scoop from @laurenthal.bsky.social

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to a Shrinking Agency Trump’s appointee to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has vowed to support the president's massive cuts.

Neil Jacobs - the weather scientist who was in charge at NOAA during "Sharpiegate" - is poised to come back.

“I’m hopeful that he’s learned how to fight within the political system," one former NOAA chief said, "because he is going to have to fight." / 1

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Constellation to Pursue New York Nuclear Project, CEO Says Constellation Energy Corp. is planning to pursue a nuclear project in upstate New York, responding to a push from the governor.

Constellation Energy is planning to pursue a nuclear project in upstate New York, responding to a push from the governor -- SCOOP with @tylerskendall $CEG
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Trump Immigration Policies Hit Climate Tech Talent Pipeline, Khosla Says The billionaire venture capitalist said the Middle East, India and Europe are among the places that will benefit from the president’s crackdown on immigration.

Trump's sweeping immigration crackdowns are causing a brain drain to the climate tech sector, hurting the economy and energy transition, tech billionaire Vinod Khosla told my colleague @akshatrathi.bsky.social today at the Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle.

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Few Texas Homeowners Hit by Extreme Rains Have Flood Insurance The lack of coverage is becoming more problematic as climate change intensifies storms.

The Central Texas areas pummeled by recent storms have long earned the reputation as the “Flash Flood Alley.” Yet only a fraction of homeowners there have flood #insurance. Here's why. My latest for @bloomberg.com w @eroston.bsky.social and Kyle Stock #Texasflood www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Texas Disaster Adds to US Flood Costs That Exceed $200 Billion The deluge in Texas last week ranks as one of the deadliest and costliest flash floods in US history, highlighting the mounting threat to communities that aren’t prepared for extreme rainfall.

The tragedy in Texas ranks among the costliest and deadliest flash floods in US history.

From 1980 through last year, flooding killed hundreds of people nationwide and inflicted at least $203.3 billion in losses, according to data from NOAA's NCEI.

My story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Solar, Wind Industries See Existential Threat in Senate Tax Bill A proposed excise tax would exacerbate the pain from the phaseout of subsidies.

If passed, the new Senate plan would threaten billions of dollars of clean energy investments and risk causing household energy bills to spike higher.

ACP: New tax would raise clean energy costs $4 bn to $7 bn
Rhodium: 10% to 20% cost increase

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Homes With Toxic Smoke Damage Deepen Insurance Nightmare in LA Months after fire tore through Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood, homeowners are struggling to get reimbursed — not for houses reduced to rubble, but for the damage of smoke and toxins in th...

Nearly six months out from the Los Angeles area wildfires, toxic smoke damage is still making it hard for some victims to move on. Investigations and lawsuits are mounting against insurers.

My latest on California's mounting insurance and climate crisis: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

By @cocojournalist.bsky.social and @naurtorious.bsky.social

Battery CEO Says US Senate’s Clean Energy Bill Is ‘Workable’ Battery storage company Fluence Energy Inc. said it can work with US Senate Republicans’ latest version of President Donald Trump’s fiscal package, which would preserve tax credits for the industry wh...

Fluence Energy Inc. said it can work with US Senate Republicans’ latest version of President Donald Trump’s fiscal package, which would preserve tax credits for the industry while gutting incentives for wind and solar power.
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