Simon Casey

Tracking Hurricane Melissa’s Latest Path

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GAS TURBINE SHORTAGE 🚨⚡

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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US to Take Stake in Lithium Americas to Boost Nevada Project The US government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas Corp., Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker ...

SCOOP: The Trump administration has completed a deal to take an equity stake in Lithium America’s as part of a deal to renegotiate a $2.3 billion U.S. loan.

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“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.” At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact: From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]> To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM Subject: Re: I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role

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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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Small New Jersey Earthquake Rattles New York City Buildings A small earthquake shook the dust off the walls and rattled windows across northern New Jersey and the greater New York City area Tuesday.

NJ micro-shake rattles windows in NYC. This is the second since Saturday, but the USGS says they are unrelated:
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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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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Is Turning Into a $900 Million Flop Nearly a decade ago, the billionaire said he’d build a hyperloop. Since then, he’s mostly built tunnels for Teslas and his own employees.

Really good reporting by @kielporter.bsky.social on Elon Musk's Boring Company and its woes. The story is not boring www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Someone should tell Chris Wright about how we dealt with asbestos
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Japan Looks at Building First Atomic Reactor Since Fukushima Kansai Electric Power Co. is looking into a plan to build Japan’s first nuclear reactor since the country soured on the technology following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, the regional utility confirmed...

🇯🇵☢️A Japanese utility is looking into a plan to build the nation's first nuclear reactor since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Kansai Electric said it will resume surveys for a potential new reactor at the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant.

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Hess Wins Exxon Arbitration Case, Paves Way for Chevron Deal Hess Corp. won its arbitration battle with Exxon Mobil Corp., clearing the way for it to be bought by Chevron Corp. more than 20 months after the $53 billion deal was announced.

Hess wins its arbitration battle with Exxon Mobil, clearing the way for it to be bought by Chevron more than 20 months after the $53 billion deal was announced www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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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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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Where is Iran’s Uranium? Truce Highlights Mystery Over Stockpile US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran may curb the exchange of missile fire, but the biggest mystery of the war remains unsolved: the location of Tehran’s near...

The tentative Israel-Iran truce highlights the mystery over Tehran's missing stockpile of enriched uranium www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Republican Who Flip-Flopped on Energy Credits Risks Voters’ Ire In the weeks before the House of Representative’s vote to gut clean energy tax credits in President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, Virginia Congresswoman Jen Kiggans cast herself as th...

Virginia Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans cast herself as one of the chief defenders of clean energy tax credits - then she voted for the House bill gutting them.

Now Democrats want to turn her vote into a political liability.

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‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for su...

In March, FEMA's then-leader recommended that the federal govt only offer assistance for “disasters of national significance.”

“This just means you should not expect to see FEMA on the ground unless it’s 9/11, Katrina, Superstorm Sandy," says Carrie Speranza

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As Companies Abandon Climate Pledges, Is There a Silver Lining? Coca-Cola, BP, HSBC and countless others are dropping environmental goals, highlighting the inadequacy of voluntary action.

"Companies aren’t going to save the planet"
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Trump’s Repeal of Pollution Rules Paves Way for New Dirty Plants The Trump administration’s plan to repeal power-plant pollution mandates will make it easier and cheaper for utilities to build new fossil fuel-fired plants, while stalling investment in clean energy.

Utilities and power developers are planning to build a lot more natural-gas power plants to meet demand from AI data centers. The Trump EPA's proposed repeal of restrictions on GHG emissions will make that a lot easier and cheaper.

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Trump Poised to Repeal Biden’s Curbs on Power-Plant Pollution The Trump administration will propose scrapping Biden-era climate mandates requiring the nation’s power plants to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions as soon as Wednesday, according to people...

NEW: The EPA is poised to unveil plans to repeal Biden’s limits on power plant emissions as soon as tomorrow. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social
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Oil-Rich University of Texas Wants to Cash In on AI, Crypto and Power The system—with an endowment second only to Harvard’s—is diversifying into wind and solar energy at a fraught time for renewables.

The University of Texas System grew rich from oil and natural gas. Now, it’s diversifying into wind, solar and data centers to power crypto and AI
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Freeport CEO Says Tariffs Threaten to Hinder US Copper Mining The threat of US levies on copper imports has been a boon for Freeport-McMoRan Inc., with North America’s top producer cashing in on selling the metal at a premium. Still, the firm’s top boss warns th...

“If we have these big tariffs and trade wars, that makes us concerned for global demand for copper.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Solar Bankruptcies Show US Clean Energy Industry Is Teetering on the Brink The US clean energy industry is starting to buckle under the weight of persistently elevated borrowing costs, President Donald Trump’s anti-renewables policies and high tariffs.

We've seen two large #solar financing companies go bust within the past week. Analysts and investors say that could just be the tip of the iceberg.

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Canada Couldn’t Build a Pipeline. The ‘51st State’ Just Might. The nation can no longer afford to leave its oil export sector exposed to erratic US policy.

Trump's '51st state' bluster might just help Carney get a new Canadian oil pipeline built
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Meta’s Nuclear Deal Underscores the Looming Gap for AI’s Power Needs Meta Platforms Inc.’s flashy deal this week for nuclear power was just the latest sign of the technology industry’s need for more energy — and fast. And while the top US reactor companies are eager to...

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Lutnick Says Hurricane Center’s Fully Staffed Despite Key Vacancies Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional hearing that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins.

The National Hurricane Center has at least 4 empty positions for meteorologists, according to its website. But Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick says it’s “fully staffed” + ready for storms. Story w/ @weathersullivan.bsky.social @alicia-diaz.bsky.social (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Fatal Tesla Crash Shows the Limits of Full Self-Driving As Elon Musk touts robotaxis in Austin, federal regulators are investigating whether Tesla’s system is dangerous even with a human behind the wheel.

People who follow Tesla closely probably know about the high profile crashes involving Tesla owners Josh Brown and Walter Huang.

You should also know about Johna Story, the pedestrian fatally struck in Arizona in 2023. She was 71.

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Trump Plans to Tap Biden’s Green Bank to Make Billions in Loans The Trump administration plans to use a $400 billion green bank the president once sought to kill to finance billions of dollars in loans for nuclear reactors, geothermal power and critical minerals, ...

Budget documents show the Trump administrations expects to offer $67 billion in financing from the green bank Trump once sought to kill.
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