Phil Aroneanu

In the race against punitive federal policy, cheap offshore wind notches a win.

Love this. An actionable plan for how we get the benefits of the clean energy economy to communities and people who need them most.

Lawyers for Good Government Files Amicus Brief Defending $20 Billion Clean Energy Fund From Trump Administration Power Grab — Lawyers for Good Government WASHINGTON — Today, Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) filed an amicus brief as counsel for 40 U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives, urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a case…

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump admin is trying to claw back $20B from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund—a lifeline for clean energy + community resilience.

L4GG filed an amicus brief w/ 40 Members of Congress urging the D.C. Circuit to defend this critical fund.

Full statement: L4GG.org/GGRFAmicusBrief

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

Thank you, @governor.ny.gov!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

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Why climate change could ramp up our sugar intake A new study says Americans buy more soda and ice cream as temperatures rise. That could have implications in a warming world.

Dentists: welcome to the climate movement. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

If courts allow the Executive branch to arbitrarily claw back dollars that have been appropriated by Congress and already deposited in awardee bank accounts, why would **anybody** do business with the federal government in the future?

Global solar installations rise 64%, to 380 GW, in first half of 2025 China led the pack in solar installations, adding 256 GW — more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined.

380 Gigawatts of solar was installed globally in just the *first half* of this year.

That’s like bringing online 400 new gas-fired power plants.

www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-i...

Energy Costs are Rising. Trump and Big Tech Are to Blame On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cut energy costs in half. Now, energy costs are skyrocketing.

If you want to build a bunch of AI data centers, and also pull the rug out from under the wind, solar + battery industries that contributed **94%** of all new generation last year, you're gonna end up with an energy affordability crisis.

From @asteephen.bsky.social:

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Heat Pumps Are Good Politics Climate policy strategist Justin Guay has a populist pitch for our warming world.

Heat pump populism is the new sewer socialism.

Good read from @guayjg.bsky.social

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But even if the EPA and Trump Administration break their promises to hardworking Americans, we won't. This is not the end of our road.

Every day of delay bleeds value. A retrofit not installed means another summer of unbearable bills. A pump not delivered means another year of hauling water. A roof not secured means another tarp, another moldy wall, another child growing up in a house that never dries. A dollar spent today prevents five dollars in damage tomorrow. A dollar withheld compounds harm. The storm does not wait for petitions. The fire does not wait for oral arguments. The flood does not wait for a court’s sense of timing.

As Matt Watkins writes in @commondreams.org, the delay isn't just about @climateunited.bsky.social or federal contracts or even appeals courts. It's about the EPA gaslighting us about the crisis we're facing, and Trump Administration executive overreach.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/cour...

There's a term for this: predatory delay.

Americans face an affordability crisis, with energy costs skyrocketing, and storms and fires forcing millions of families across the country to choose between paying rent, energy, food or medicine.

Meanwhile, the Trump Admin delays funding for solutions.

Solar executives warn that Trump attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices Renewable power executives say difficulty getting permits, rising costs due to tariffs and the end of key tax credits are making it tough to plan.

But the Trump Admin apparently doesn't want Americans to benefit from lower energy bills, less pollution, and good-paying jobs. Instead, EPA drags this case on, freezing funds + terminating awards (illegal), accusing awardees of fraud (false), and putting red tape up for clean energy projects.

Clean Energy As Economic Development: An Analysis Of The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund • Energy Innovation New modeling finds the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund could save consumers $52 billion and create up to 41,000 annual jobs.

The funding that EPA froze was intended to lower energy costs, spur U.S. manufacturing, and create jobs across the country. Not just a little bit - A LOT MORE:

💰$52 billion in household energy savings
👷‍♀️41,000 more jobs annually
🤑$23 billion in wages earned
🌞Enough solar to power 2.2m homes annually

Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight The court said the claims must be brought before a special court that handles contract disputes involving the federal government.

Yesterday, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 to vacate a lower court's injunction barring EPA from clawing back billions in critical clean energy funding that @climateunited.bsky.social & others were awarded last yr. Here's how this decision could hurt hardworking Americans across the US 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Court of Appeals just ruled in favor of EPA's efforts to claw back billions of GGRF dollars that were legally obligated and disbursed last year.

This is another hurdle in our fight to lower energy costs for the families and hardworking Americans who need it most.

The number one cause of death for whales off the NY/NJ coast is getting hit by large, fast-moving container ships.

Blocking wind farms will kill thousands of jobs and increase electricity costs for hardworking Americans while doing nothing to save 🐋

Why? Businesses know that renewables are the cheapest and fastest way to add new power capacity to meet increasing demand. Along with efficiency, grid upgrades, and new tech like virtual power plants, geothermal and nuclear, we can avoid the impending energy affordability crisis. LFG!

From the Dept. of Good News:

Despite attacks on the industry, clean energy is projected to account for **94%** of new electricity generation placed in service this year in the U.S. - a record!

www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Whatever the ADL used to be is history. Greenblatt is a shakedown artist who uses lies to extort, not a defender of Jews.

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Trump Country Feeling Pain of Environmental Justice Grant Cuts In February the skies opened over southwestern Virginia, dumping seven inches of rain in a torrent that washed out roads, destroyed homes and businesses, and prompted Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to declar...

"There’s a broad understanding that Appalachia is a disadvantaged region. Call it EJ, call it whatever you want. We deserve support now that the coal is gone. That’s an uncontroversial thing to say.” - Dana Kuhnline @reimagineappal8ia.bsky.social

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'Fire clouds' over Arizona and Utah wildfires are creating their own erratic climate Two wildfires burning in the western United States are so hot that they’re spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems. The wind-whipped wildfire

Exhibit A: www.abqjournal.com/news/nationa...

Democrats retreat on the Green New Deal Democrats aren't explicitly disavowing the Green New Deal, but they've stopped talking about it.

The thing about climate change is that the overheated atmosphere doesn't care whether or not politicians believe climate solutions to be politically popular or not at any given moment. It will keep getting hotter until we do something about it. www.axios.com/2025/08/01/d...

Which one is it gonna be?

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.” @billmckibben.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

35% of North Dakota’s energy mix is wind power.

Jews are instructed by Moses, in his final speech, to choose life. Genocide and starvation are the opposite.

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your descendants may live!”

Deuteronomy 30:19

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose? We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country.

Communities are paying the price for the EPA’s unlawful actions. Let’s work together to fill the gaps. 🤝

Read the Native Village of Port Heiden's story about how climate funding freezes are harming native Alaska communities counting on federal funds to lower energy costs.
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Opinion | Why Trump’s War on Solar Power Will Fail

"Last year almost 96 percent of new electricity generation globally came from sun and wind technologies and batteries" - @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...