Nick Cunningham

Oil and gas vs wind emissions in the real world.

legitimately wild congestion pricing wasn’t an issue in New York’s mayoral election

"We expect prices to average $4.00/MMBtu in 2026, 16% higher than in 2025, primarily due to increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports amid flat production growth"

Exporting US gas to make US oil executives even wealthier off of the backs of the US public. It just has that 2025 vibe!

Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

The change "could quickly place as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets...All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older."

Here’s how much Democrats get paid to shill for fossil fuels Two former Democratic lawmakers made six-figure salaries for falsely promoting methane gas as a climate solution, tax documents seen by HEATED show.

For Democrats willing to promote fossil fuels as clean energy, the payoff is pretty nice

Other Dems who've joined Natural Allies receive anywhere from $180K - $250K per year. It doesn't appear to be a full-time job either.

Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Bubble or Nothing Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...

Economist Hyman Minsky explained how speculative debt issuance can endanger an entire economy. A new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report applies this to debt finance for data centers: how the AI bubble could burst & how to think about the potential bailout. publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Coal and oil to peak by 2030: IEA’s World Energy Outlook - Gas Outlook The IEA’s flagship annual World Energy Outlook reaffirms that the energy transition continues to gain momentum.

Coal and oil to peak by 2030: IEA’s World Energy Outlook
gasoutlook.com/analysis/coa...

China’s September Emissions Drop Keeps Annual Decline in Play A drop in Chinese carbon emissions in September suggests this year could still see an annual decline, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, in what would be a global climate tu...

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U.S. officials and LNG companies called on the P-TEC attendees to put pressure on European officials. “I will echo Secretary Wright…where you all can help with the EU, and that’s regarding CSDDD,” said Khary Cauthen, vice president of government affairs at Cheniere Energy. “I’d also add in some of the methane regulations that…We are going to sell the molecules. We want to be partners with Europe. We just need your help to help that be the case.”

Cheniere Energy also told the audience to put pressure on EU officials to weaken methane regulation on gas imports

At the same time, the U.S. is putting immense pressure on the European Union to weaken some of its policy directives. The two that have raised the most ire from the U.S. energy industry are the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Methane Regulation. The CSDDD would impose obligations on corporations operating in Europe to ensure their supply chains comply with sustainability and human rights standards, and the Methane Regulation would set limits on the methane intensity for imported gas. “CSDDD in European regulations, it is an absolute existential risk to affordable energy in Europe,” U.S. Energy Secretary Wright said on Thursday at the P-TEC conference. The U.S. government and the American oil and gas industry have repeatedly targeted the CSDDD. ExxonMobil has publicly called for it to be scrapped. Secretary Wright wrote a joint letter with Qatar to the EU member states, suggesting the directives threatened the flow of LNG to Europe. They called on the EU to weaken the CSDDD. “If you can’t do business from countries around the world, not just the United States, but all the countries, you make it too risky and too expensive to do business here, that gas will go elsewhere. We don’t want to see that happen,” Wright said in Athens.

Of course, Trump admin went to Greece with some thinly veiled threats, warning LNG flows would be reduced unless the EU weakened its climate and human rights regulations

The logic is to use the existing gas network to import LNG in Greece and move the gas from Southeastern Europe to countries further north, through Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and to Ukraine. Unlike other countries, Ukraine has vast gas storage infrastructure, so imported gas could be stored there or moved further into eastern and central Europe. The Vertical Corridor would complement the existing flows of LNG imports from the Baltic Sea, where U.S. LNG arrives at import terminals in Germany, Poland, and Lithuania. The U.S. is seeking to expand the volumes of this trade — the Polish government is in talks with the U.S. on LNG deals that could see gas routed to Ukraine and Slovakia, according to Reuters. Convening the conference in Athens underscored the key role that Greece figures into U.S. plans to bring American gas into Europe. Secretary Wright called Greece the “perfect entry point” for U.S. LNG, a framing echoed by the Greek hosts. “The prospects for future collaboration are enormous,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ahead of the main conference. “Greece’s unique geographic position makes it the natural gateway for U.S. LNG into Europe.”

US gov sent high-level delegation to a gas conference in Greece. Trump admin wants to use Greece as an "entry point" to send a lot more LNG to Europe

gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Neon-clad protesters stage '80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility. They called it “Sweatin’ Out the Fascists.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html

FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

"Cheniere Energy disclosed in a securities filing last month that, thanks to the most recent Treasury notice, it was entitled to a refund of $380m of previously paid alternative minimum tax"

Trump is carving up the tax code unilaterally to hand $ to corporations while cutting $ on food for people

any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience

There’s a really strong possibility that the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the death of Charlie Kirk against their enemies was the height of their power.

They’ll be on their back foot with high unfavorable ratings now and people are going to start smelling blood in the water.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

get a fucking grip man, my god

But foreign diplomats said they were stunned by what they described as “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials, which were mostly aimed at leaders from poorer or small countries that are economically dependent on the United States. Some of the delegations were summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London for these discussions, these people said.

Rubio threatened a bunch of poor countries to vote against what would have been a landmark agreement on maritime emissions.

Gangster diplomacy

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New York Approves Trump-Backed Gas Pipeline The Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline had been rejected by environmental regulators three times but was revived this spring after talks between Hochul…

⚠️ Breaking: Hochul administration approves 3x rejected, Trump-backed NESE pipeline, the first of its kind in New York in at least a decade.

Story: nysfocus.com/2025/11/07/n...

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

She says Tesla’s chatbot asked her 12-year-old for nudes A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, ...

“A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... (this is just appalling.)

PPS Secures North Portland Schools Amid Reports of ICE Activity Cesar Chavez School and George Middle School have implemented the PPS's “secure the perimeter” protocol amid reports of ICE activity in the neighborhood.

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attention Portland

OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAI, says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers. Friar spoke at WSJ’s Tech Live event in Califo...

Hold your wallets, everyone, OpenAI is talking about taxpayer backing so it can continue its data center building craze without having to show profitability. www.wsj.com/video/openai...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.