Scott Waldman

The oil island that could break Iran President Donald Trump’s allies are urging him to take control of a small spit in the Persian Gulf that controls nearly all of Iran’s oil exports.

A tiny island inhabited by gazelles is the key to Iran's entire economy and funding for the brutal war machine of the regime. It's so sensitive that both Israel and U.S. forces have avoided destroying it for decades.
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I was at this incredible show as was director Jim Jarmusch, who filmed the whole thing. Then we all hustled up to Cleveland, where Waits played a second show that started at 1 a.m. and had an entirely different set list. One of America's greatest living songwriters, who rarely plays shows.

The climate report was assembled by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and reflects years of his own misleading climate change statements. He touted it when the Trump administration proposed the endangerment rollback, but was notably absent from the White House event where his report was unmentioned.

“They would have been obliterated in court,” @andrewdessler.com told me. "This is the gold standard of climate skepticism and if this is the best they can do, then they’ve proven how robust climate science actually is."

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

Climate denialists claimed victory when the Trump administration published an unprecedented report reliant on decades of debunked claims. The administration just proved it has no confidence their work could withstand scrutiny in a legal fight over climate regulations www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Trump EPA took eleventh-hour look at endangerment finding With just days remaining for the Trump administration, EPA reviewed the agency's foundational ruling underpinning its climate change rules. But in a

Here are my stories about how the last Trump EPA didn't end but *saved* the endangerment finding

I cite lots of #FOIA docs

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Of course, many of these people are now serving in this Trump admin — which just axed the finding

#FOIA4eva

EPA repeals endangerment finding The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.

Greenhouse gases stopped being harmful at 1:30 pm EST on Thursday, February 12, 2026.

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Trump claims people are "dying" because of the endangerment finding and the way it restricted air conditioning and fossil fuels. Which, of course, is not reality.

Here’s what could happen when the endangerment finding dies States, courts and Congress could be forced to fill the climate policy vacuum.

I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy.

And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.!

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Months ago, during the first government shutdown, a source suggested I take a look at how small federal contractors were being affected. I started making calls and quickly realized that this story went beyond the shutdown — some of these folks had been losing money all year. 1/

Florida DOGE embraces Trump’s disputed climate report The DeSantis administration, seeking to curtail local spending, cited a Department of Energy report to question the "so-called climate crisis."

Florida's DOGE team is now using the misleading DOE climate report to attack government spending on infrastructure, EVs, mass transit and more in one of the most climate-vulnerable states. www.eenews.net/articles/flo.... From me and @adamaton.bsky.social

Report author Steve Koonin wrote in the WSJ that the "peer-reviewed report is entirely our work, free from political influence — a departure from previous assessments.” But in reality, DOE and EPA political appointees shaped the report, and even sent Clean Air Act provisions to focus their work.

"We were kept in the dark about how our report would be used," one of the report authors told me. The emails show that it false. In an email, he told his colleagues that "All I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient ‘reasonable scientific doubt’" to attack the endangerment finding.

DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

I love it when a plan comes together

The Trump Administration Is Now Delaying Renewable Projects It Thinks Are Ugly The Army Corps of Engineers is out to protect “the beauty of the Nation’s natural landscape.”

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics”

Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Trump opposes wind energy. That could be a tough sell in Iowa. The president takes his affordability message Tuesday to the state where turbine farms have helped keep electricity prices low.

Trump is speaking in Iowa now, starting with a claim that cold weather means global warming is not real. @adamaton.bsky.social and I wrote about how Iowa, which receives 2/3 of its power from wind and has low utility bills, is a powerful argument for clean energy. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

This is another example of the Trump administration's desire to control the natural resources of other countries. Alberta is a center of Canada's oil and gas industry.

Trump is, once again, repeating lies about wind turbines. China, in fact, has twice the wind and solar capacity of any country in the world. Energy Secretary Chris Wright certainly knows this fact.

DOE sees bigger role for climate contrarians, records show A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Burgum celebrated wind power. Then Trump tapped him to kill it. As governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum bragged about his state’s wind energy. He shed those views when he became Interior secretary.

When he was North Dakota's governor, Burgum frequently bragged about the state's wind industry and helped it grow so large that it wind now accounts for a third of the state's power. www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

Trump just said if he does not "take over" Greenland, Russia and China will do so. He said "we will doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the hard way." He said US must "own" Greenland because otherwise it's like a rental or lease.

Trump just said that his goal is not to approve any more "windmills" during his next three years in office. He then falsely claims that all wind turbines are made in China and that they only last 8 years. He said he has ordered Interior Secretary Burgum not approve any more wind turbines whatsoever.

The IPCC said humans cause climate change. Is that why Trump quit it? Withdrawing from the world’s premier climate science organization supports the president’s views about global warming.

Today's story with @saraschonhardt.bsky.social on the implications of Trump's stated intent to withdraw from the IPCC (which has been the de facto situation for most of the past year) and how some organizations are stepping up to fill in the gaps. www.eenews.net/articles/the...

Will Justice Alito recuse from court cases related to climate regulations and the fossil fuel industry? Will he recuse from the EPA's attempt to roll back the endangerment finding, which is likely to be the subject of litigation that reaches the Supreme Court?

Q&A: John Bolton on Trump’s Venezuelan oil grab “The idea that American oil companies are just lining up to go invest in Venezuela is just flatly wrong,” he told POLITICO's E&E News.

As the Trump considered deposing Maduro in his first term, officials consulted with the oil industry, former National Security Advisor John Bolton told me. Bolton said Trump has never planned for what comes next. “There’s no Plan B because there’s no plan A." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

If the Trump administration wants “people who are not going to tell them [the] truth" about climate change, @katharinehayhoe.com told me, “those are the only people they have.” The plan also includes appointing a director of the US Global Change Research Program, expected to be named next month.

It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one. Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.

The Trump administration is preparing to write its own National Climate Assessment, the gold-standard science report that tracks how climate change is transforming the US. Authors could include Grok + researchers who produced the misleading Department of Energy report. www.eenews.net/articles/its...

Trump has long claimed US can take other countries’ oil The president’s posture toward Venezuela isn’t new. He previously has said the U.S. should seize oil from Iraq and Syria.

Trump has long claimed he wants to seize oil from other countries as a result of US military intervention, stating at one point that "to the victor belong the spoils." That would be a war crime, but Venezuela may be Trump's first chance to test the world on the issue. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

The White House will not clarify or explain what Trump meant by this bizarre claim, which is entirely made up. The president was delivering a pre-written speech that included an entirely fictitious statement that has no bearing in reality. Why so specific, where did the number 1,600 come from?