Marianne Lavelle

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.

New Pentagon figures reveal the climate risks of Trump's drive to federalize the National Guard as law enforcers. @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...

On Senate Floor, Tillis Offered Inside Look Into the Lobbying Against Clean Energy - Inside Climate News Regardless of the fate of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” the political tug-of-war over energy already has damaged an industry and upended business deals.

On Senate Floor, Tillis Offered Inside Look Into the Lobbying Against Clean Energy: "People that haven’t worked a day in business are setting policy in the White House" insideclimatenews.org/news/0207202...

Yes, as everyone knows, before AI, every time anyone had a query of any type, they'd drive to the library to get the answer, burning gasoline along the way. Moreover, what are the chances that millions of small amounts of energy for each query could add up to a large amount of energy?

Trump Hastens ‘Drumbeat’ of Deferred Coal Plant Retirements - Inside Climate News The administration is leaning into fossil fuel solutions for growing power demand, with support from grid operators.

Three deferred coal plant retirements, one by direct order of the Trump administration, put at risk nearly one third of the 47 million metric tons of carbon emissions cuts that were expected from the sector this year. @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0606202...

A line of BYD’s Dolphin Surf electric vehicles at a launch event in Paris

Chinese car group BYD has sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time www.ft.com/content/53ec...

House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts? - Inside Climate News The fate of the Inflation Reduction Act is in the hands of a few dozen elected officials who are weighing principles, partisan leanings and their districts’ economic interests.

Once, George Washington led a hasty retreat from New York and came back to fight another day. What will happen with clean energy tax credits? So far, we only know the first part of the story, fm @dangearino.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2205202...

Congress Begins Repeal of Clean Energy Tax Credits With ‘Sledgehammer Approach’ - Inside Climate News It’s only the first step toward erasing Biden’s key climate policy, but the politics are difficult amid the push for Trump’s tax cuts. The potential climate consequences are profound.

The future of the clean energy incentives of the Biden era come down to this: Are there a handful of Republicans willing to hold up the Trump tax cuts for the sake of solar, wind, EV, battery, nuclear and geothermal development in their districts? insideclimatenews.org/news/1405202...

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YouTube video by Inside Climate News The Inside Scoop: Covering Politics and Energy in 2025

Hear an Earth Day conversation with me, @vernonloeb.bsky.social and @mlavelle.bsky.social, talking about covering our beats and the times in which we live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrJ...

EPA Funding Cuts Target Disadvantaged Communities, Analysis Shows - Inside Climate News In its bid to resist a court order to unfreeze grants, the Trump administration reveals a laser focus on eliminating environmental justice aid.

EPA has never released a list of all the grants it is terminating but in a legal filing it has named the programs being cut. A @peteraldhous.com @insideclimatenews.org analysis shows 99% of the planned cuts are aid to poor and minority communities. insideclimatenews.org/news/0105202...

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt - Inside Climate News A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

In my newsletter this week I mention how the FBI is investigating nonprofits, essentially for accepting EPA grants

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This is the program they're targeting. Great deep dive by @dangearino.bsky.social + @mlavelle.bsky.social

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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt - Inside Climate News A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

How we got a green bank, how Trump is trying to kill it and who gets hurt.

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How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt - Inside Climate News A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

With a new hearing tomorrow on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, we looked back on the roots of this idea and what is at stake in the Trump administration's effort to claw back $20 billion. with @dangearino.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org
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A nail in the coffin? If California does the same that may be the final nail. There are now many competitors offering newer tech and cheaper EVs. Musk thought—actually said this—his competitors would suffer under rollback of US EV policy. But Tesla now has even more forces lining up against it.

And the plan is to cut EPA’s staff—or EPA’s budget—(differing statements were made, but essentially it’s the same) to lowest levels in its 55-yr history, while lifting the most consequential air and water pollution standards. insideclimatenews.org/news/1203202...

Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection - Inside Climate News Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”

Shock and awe? EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced environmental rollback efforts that he claimed will mark "the most consequential day of deregulation" in U.S. history. @mlavelle.bsky.social and I break down what it all means. insideclimatenews.org/news/1203202...

Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection - Inside Climate News Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”

The "greatest and most consequential day of deregulation?" Or "the greatest increase in pollution in decades." EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announces plans for 31 actions to roll back environmental protection. with @mckennapr.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

Breaking news: NASA announced today it will eliminate its Office of the Chief Scientist, along with offices advising the agency on technology, strategy, and coordinating its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts. scim.ag/3Ft8Xza

I was glad to join WORT-FM in Wisconsin today to talk about the many ways that Trump administration policy is affecting the clean energy transition. You can listen at the link below!

US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum - Inside Climate News The terminology will be stricken in classes for future officers in a service that confronts global warming every day, a move some say will weaken it.

Not making this up: US Coast Guard Academy censors ‘Climate Change’ from its curriculum @mlavelle.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...

Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda - Inside Climate News Scientists turned out at rallies from coast to coast and in Europe to “Stand Up for Science,” revitalizing a movement to defend scientific integrity that started during Trump’s first term.

From Birmingham to San Francisco, Raleigh to New York, and even Vienna where EU scientists showed solidarity, @lizagross.bsky.social @dennispillion.bsky.social @bberwyn.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org colleagues captured Stand Up For Science! insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...

EPA Reinstates Environmental Justice Staff Amid Workforce Turmoil - Inside Climate News The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recalled dozens of environmental justice staffers who were previously placed on administrative leave pending possible termination, three former senior agen...

"A chaotic and cruel circus.” My colleague @shamaan.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org reports on fired environmental justice staff being brought back to the EPA. Some of them. Kind of. Not with access to tools to do their work. insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...

US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum - Inside Climate News The terminology will be stricken in classes for future officers in a service that confronts global warming every day, a move some say will weaken it.

EXCLUSIVE: The US Coast Guard Academy has eliminated “climate change” and related terminology from its curriculum in an effort to conform to President Donald Trump’s policies, @insideclimatenews.org reports. A former commandant raises concerns. insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...

Something I’ve been thinking about is this assumption that states will just dramatically expand their emergency management agencies if FEMA is eliminated. Many have pointed out the obvious resource issue there but I’ve also been thinking about the historical context.

Added to my reading list. Someone should write a series....

Trump, EPA Aim to Remove Finding That Mandates Action on Greenhouse Gas Pollution - Inside Climate News Experts expect Trump’s team to lean on legal arguments, not science, to take down EPA’s 16-year-old endangerment finding.

In the wake of $27 billion+ in U.S. disaster costs last year, can the Trump administration really succeed in striking down the finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to health and welfare? Experts told @insideclimatenews.org how they might try. insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...

Wells Fargo Abandons Net Zero Targets Amid Wall Street Retreat Wells Fargo & Co. just became the first major bank to abandon a goal that’s been singled out by the US energy secretary, Chris Wright, as “terrible.”

Is anyone keeping a list of the great retreat? Should we start a shared doc?

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Bureau of Land Management Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale - Inside Climate News Environmental justice concerns and climate costs were eliminated from assessment as the Trump administration seeks to overhaul its handling of the National Environmental Policy Act.

The Trump administration used this New Mexico oil and gas lease sale to showcase its new approach to the National Environmental Policy Act: No consideration of environmental justice, no analysis of climate costs. My latest for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2002202...