Scott Waldman

the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace

The CEOs of both Ford and Stellantis, who are there to celebrate the rollback of vehicle emissions standards (which will drive climate change), are standing right behind Trump as he makes these racist comments.

The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

NEW: A billionaire-backed global cooling startup is a few years away from potentially seeding the stratosphere with sunlight-reflecting particles.

This is the inside story of how Stardust is developing planet-altering tech that it hopes to sell to the US government. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Zeldin kept up EPA roadshow during shutdown In a sign of the Trump administration’s novel approach to the funding gap, the administrator traveled for 16 days during the shutdown.

Ex-EPA officials I spoke to remember past administrators avoiding trips during shutdowns

Lee Zeldin went a different route — going to 11 states and Canada, recording 16 days for travel since this lapse's start on Oct. 1

"Not a good look," said an agency staffer

www.eenews.net/articles/zel...

Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them POLITICO’s E&E News examined satellite imagery of more than 100 homes owned by Republican lawmakers to see if they have solar panels. Seven had rooftop

NEW: At least three GOP lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that'll expire in January due to Trump’s megalaw, E&E News has found.

They all support ending the perk that sliced thousands of dollars off the cost of installing their panels. www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

Both Biden and Harris barely talked about their own climate policy in last year of the campaign. That left a void for Trump to fill with misinformation -- as he did with trans rights -- and no Democrat counter messaging. Democrats must talk about climate to avoid that, @doctorvive.bsky.social notes.

But moderate groups are explicitly advising Democrats not to discuss climate change. That message resonates with @schatz.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov who both told me they plan to use the frame of affordability to tout more clean energy deployment.

Some Democrats, like @seancasten.bsky.social, have won multiple races explicitly talking about climate change policy. @katmabu.bsky.social said young voters expect to hear about climate change. "We have to think about climate change, where we’re going to live...how it’s going to impact us.”

Retreat or recast? Democrats debate future of climate politics. Democratic election wins last week reignited arguments on how — or if — candidates should discuss climate change on the campaign trail.

Ahead of midterms, climate policy has become a wedge issue splitting Democrats. After last week's electoral victories, some Democrats will only talk about expanding clean energy through lens of affordability. Others believe talking about climate change will win voters. www.eenews.net/articles/ret...

The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…

…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.

read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

'I could feel the roof pick up.' Hospitals face new disaster risks under Trump. The president's megalaw is making it difficult for cash-strapped hospitals to gird for storms that are being turbocharged by climate change.

My latest on how the Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown also impact hospitals' resilience to climate change.

www.eenews.net/articles/hos...

White House wrote half of EPA’s cost-benefit analysis for climate rule rollback The move — revealed in emails and internal drafts — sidelined EPA's deep bench of career economists.

Anybody know if a University of Chicago economist who wasn't even in the government at the time wrote almost half of the regulatory impact analysis for EPA's endangerment/car rules draft repeal? Because it sure looks like he did. Signal jchemnick.01.

www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Shutdown disrupts research into Great Lakes’ toxic algae At risk is the ability for researchers to forecast dangerous blooms weeks in advance.

The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.

It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.

www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Every oil state disposes of toxic wastewater underground. But in Oklahoma, it hasn't been staying there, creating large, ongoing pollution events known as "purges."

An investigation a year in the making for @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org

www.readfrontier.org/stories/toxi...

RIOT INC. EXPOSED – The Dark Money Billionaires Behind the Left’s “Day of Defiance” RIOT INC. EXPOSED – The Dark Money Billionaires Behind the Left’s “Day of Defiance” - GAI Reports, Homepage New Schweizer team investigation reveals how ‘No Kings’ and its partners bagged $114.8 milli...

The GAI issued a "Riot Inc" report that Trump ordered the FBI, DOJ, DHS to investigate. It lists a wide range of environmental groups, including @sierraclub.org, @lcv.org, @350.org, @biologicaldiversity.org, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, as being part of some violent network. g-a-i.org/2025/06/19/r...

Another group, the Government Accountability Institute, met with "homeland security investigators" after the WH antifa roundtable a few weeks ago. That group is founded by Steve Bannon and bankrolled by Trump donor Rebekah Mercer, also a prominent climate denial group funder.

Opinion | Investigate Leftist Nonprofits—Carefully One important distinction is between violations of tax laws and criminal laws.

But now, even the head of the conservative CRC seems concerned by WH acting too aggressively. He wrote a WSJ op-ed yesterday calling for caution, urging Trump to make an "important distinction...between violating nonprofit laws versus breaching criminal laws." www.wsj.com/opinion/inve...

The Trump administration appears willing to go much further and possibly pursue criminal charges by linking opponents to antifa. A WH memo released last month, known as NSPM-7, established a broad definition of political violence, which could give Trump wide latitude to pursue its opponents.

The Capital Research Center, funded by dark money and foundations that support climate denial groups, helped Trump admin strategize. CRC told me they are now targeting green groups involved in protests where traffic is blocked, arguing minor violations of the law allow for removal of 501c3/4 status.

Green groups gird for life in Trump’s crosshairs The administration’s pursuit of its perceived enemies has compelled environmental groups to take new precautions.

Conservative groups are working the White House, Homeland Security, DOJ to go after prominent environmental organizations. It's part of an effort to link progressive groups to Antifa, despite the lack of evidence. Stripping away nonprofit status is only 1st step. www.eenews.net/articles/gre...

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the… The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

DOE climate report colored by past views of its authors, critics say A review by POLITICO's E&E News found that most of the authors have spoken out against the endangerment finding, once called the "holy grail" of climate

“These are not political people,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said of the DOE report authors. But 4 of the 5 have spoken out against the endangerment finding and 3 have ties to groups that employ/promote critics of climate action. @scottpwaldman.bsky.social today: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

DOE climate report colored by past views of its authors, critics say A review by POLITICO's E&E News found that most of the authors have spoken out against the endangerment finding, once called the "holy grail" of climate

Trump's climate science report was crafted by researchers who are anything but "independent" since they are longtime climate policy critics and have been affiliated with conservative groups funded by fossil fuel companies. That could cost the administration in court.
www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

As a parent of teens, I'm worried that my own sanity will shatter like glass on a tile floor if I have to hear this damn phrase again.

‘It just seems so messy’: How Chris Wright went wrong with the White House Missteps in cutting clean energy spending and friction between staffers has led to questions about whether the former fracking company CEO will remain in the Cabinet.

Tensions are rising between Energy Sec. Chris Wright & the WH over a series of political missteps and policy disputes.

w/ @benlefebvre.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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.

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

Energy Secretary Wright made tens of millions of dollars as the CEO of a fracking company, so he certainly knows that the natural gas he brought to market is the primary cause of the decline of the coal industry.

Scott, Ben & I went through the entire report line by line to understand the types of tactics the authors use. The examples in our final project are prime illustrations of how this document misleads, manipulates and obscures. Proud to see this story published and proud to work with this badass team.