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Energy Secretary Wright and Interior Secretary Burgum have both cited "pollution" from offshore wind turbines as one of the reasons they need to be scrutinized or shut down.

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I live in Ward 4, Pinto represents Ward 2, but this showed up in my mailbox.

When a DC council member sends mailers to residents who aren't her constituents... she's definitely eyeing higher office.

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

A good way to honor, and understand, the global impact of Jane Goodall. RIP films.nationalgeographic.com/jane-the-movie

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards.

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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

The European Union's basic research funding program this year had a 400 percent increase in applications from U.S.-based academics.

“Thanks to Trump we are seeing this brain gain,” said the president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The artificial intelligence hype cycle is off the charts. Literally.

AI deals now account for a record 63 percent of all venture capital investments in the past year, according to data compiled by PitchBook. pitchbook.com/news/article...

DALLAS FED Manufacturing Survey:

“.. I may have to close the company. Orders have stopped coming in, and we do not know why.”

“.. all we can attribute it to is the crazy tariff-induced environment we are living in.”

www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

E&E News: Disruptive climate activists retool for Trump era “The terrain is getting harder, but we are going to bring that exact same energy to the fight,” said the leader of the group Climate Defiance.

Typically measured commentary from a Trump administration spokesperson: “Can’t say this is very ‘newsy.’ However, love to see fundraising dollars going towards pitching the E&E News echo chamber on this radical climate group’s antics.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Donald Trump and Republicans fought hard to build this 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It’s paying dividends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

“Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.”

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

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Climate Action Tracker has downgraded the US's climate action under Trump from insufficient to critically insufficient, "in the most significant rollback of policies the project has ever analysed."

Graphic showing Earth during the June solstice and September equinox. At the equinox, sunlight is evenly distributed along the equator. Text notes Fall Equinox 2025 occurs Sept 22 at 2:19 pm EDT.

The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

Washington's professional men's soccer team, which had been unbeaten under a new coach, faced off against one of the greatest players of all time... And the Washington Post gave the match a three-paragraph write up.

Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access

Trump wants $1 trillion in defense spending for 2026. Meanwhile, the DoD wants to restrict reporters’ access to information on how that money will be spent:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

“So far for 2025, the Trump Organization has posted to hire 31 foreign temporary workers for its winery.”

YouTube video by POLITICO Why is MTG talking about weather modification?

Solar geoengineering had its moment in the sun on Capitol Hill this week.

Here's why Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's discussion didn't shed much light on the trade offs associated with the climate technology.

youtube.com/shorts/w_i5B...

There still aren't many countries with near 100% clean grid. When they typically do, they usually rely heavily on one or two sources of electricity (say hydro and geothermal in Iceland) to get there.

Sweden is an exception in just how diverse its clean grid is.

Inside ABC's Shock Kimmel Decision At Disney, emergency meetings were convened after the FCC chair’s Jimmy Kimmel threat, with the late-night host ready to respond on-air—but Disney brass ultimately decided to bench the marquee talent ...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked last night by @status.news to comment on ABC benching Kimmel, following his demands. He texted back, “😀.”

Chevron: Lawyer in $51B lawsuit failed to disclose support for climate research The oil giant wants a court to disregard two studies that an Oregon county says boosts its case that fossil fuels exacerbated a deadly heat wave.

Chevron is asking a court to disregard two climate studies in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against fossil fuel companies — and to review whether the studies were “supported or otherwise influenced” by a top lawyer in the case. www.eenews.net/articles/che...

Trump Media lost $20 million last quarter.

Attiah was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.

"Washington D.C. no longer has a paper that reflects the people it serves."

Homeless Advocates Sue HUD Over Ideology Tests for Grants A new funding notice for homeless service providers requires both applicants and the cities and states in which they operate to show support for Trump’s policies.

With no warning, HUD reopened a set of housing grants that were already awarded. This time, to be eligible, programs had to show they conform to Trump's views on immigration, gender and more. Not just the programs — the cities where they work have to show that too. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Burgum: Losing AI race is more dangerous than climate change The Interior secretary indicated that 1 degree of climate change was an acceptable consequence of ramping up fossil fuels for data centers.

“The real existential threat right now is not a degree of climate change,” Interior Secretary DougBurgum said at a natural gas industry conference. “It’s the fact that we could lose the AI arms race if we don’t have enough power.” www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

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