I’ll own this. From a climate perspective, we need to reduce methane. What tools should climate concerned policymakers be pushing for in the U.S.? (I still don’t LNG exports as helping US consumers).

Matt, I think that the LNG pause is actually justified on consumer grounds: exports will raise prices. But I’m curious what pro consumer methane reduction policies you think Dems should pursue now?

Exactly. Thank you. We need columnists to educate and inform us so we can make the world better. But this rage at the NYT is based on an old belief that reading a column is like taking action. Sadly, it’s not.

Exactly. Thank you. We need columnists to educate and inform us so we can make the world better. But this rage at the NYT is based on an old belief that reading a column is like taking action. Sadly, it’s not.

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Kansas Votes to Preserve Abortion Rights Protections in Its Constitution (Published 2022)

2.) winning elections on the state or federal level -- big races in which millions of people vote -- will require doing and saying things that appeal to a broad coalition of people. See: how Kansas defeated an abortion ban. www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/u...

I agree with most of what @mattyglesias.bsky.social says here. I’m glad that Dems focused on climate change, but the fact that so much of the party just agreed on it, including Joe Manchin (!) was the key reason it was central to Biden’s policy agenda.

What does the One Big "Beautiful" Bill mean for the US energy transition, household and business energy costs, electricity supplies and emissions? We've published a quick summary report of our findings here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OBBB
🔌💡

I think it’s definitely good for Dems to spend more time reminding voters that affordable health care and progressive taxation are core values. But the vast expansion of detention centers is not something Dems can avoid talking about.

Solar Firms Surge as Senate Drops Excise Tax From Trump Bill The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill would soften the blow for wind and solar developers, which had feared a sharp reduction in subsidies that helped spur a renewable p...

“It went from terrible to bad,” Jason Grumet, head of trade group American Clean Power, said of the Senate-passed legislation. “It’s hard to say I’m psyched about a bill that’s a step back on energy policy, but it’s considerably improved.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not my top pick. But hard to imagine Buttigieg or AOC or Corey Booker navigating that (for different reasons).

This is a serious question: which potential presidential candidate would be the most likely? Rahm Emanuel? Maybe Doug Jones??

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

By raising electric bills and increasing power outages during hurricanes and heat waves, the Big Ugly Bill deserves a new name:
 
🪫 The Big Blackout Bill 🪫
**sponsored by Big Oil and Gas

Once again, you’re welcome to believe all is lost and everything is doomed and nothing matters lol but please take it someplace other than my mentions, Eeyore.

It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.

Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.

Your take was entirely consistent with the idea that MAGA ideology triumphed over self interest. Thank you. We need allies this moment.

How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.

I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.

Please share! This is really important!!!

@heatmap.news

BREAKING: Senate Budget Bill Will Leave 11.8 Million Uninsured and add 3.9 Trillion to Debt Good evening, everyone.

BREAKING: The Senate budget bill will leave up to 17 million uninsured, add 3.9 trillion in debt, and make ICE once of the most funded law enforcement agencies in the entire country.

A final vote is expected on Monday. I have all the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China.

It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.

Cruel as the ACA repeal attempt was, this bill is much worse.

Senate Dems, if you’re looking for inspiration…

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.

it’s pretty wild that the nation’s first climate law is headed towards a chainsaw and the only people talking about it here are wonks

"The biggest jobs killing bill in the history of the country"

That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill.

So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social?

#energysky

Still no deals eh?

‘Like yogurt, not wine’: Senate GOP rushes to wrap megabill Senate Republicans are racing to write language on Medicaid that can both comply with the parliamentary rules and get 50 votes.

Why are Republicans so insistent on the arbitrary July 4 deadline for reconciliation bill? One reason is Trump.

The other: People will sour on it the longer it sits out there.

“This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator told Semafor.

www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

And I like Mamdani. I just don’t think these endorsements will matter much either way and I am much more invested in the outcome of the US House than I am the NYC mayor.