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NEPA under attack. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Enjoyed talking with @dangearino.bsky.social about this uncertain moment for battery manufacturing in the US. There is a lot of momentum, but the road ahead sure looks bumpy. 🔌🚗

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Investments in US clean energy manufacturing and supply chains have been mixed since 1/20/25. My research students at @wellesley.edu and I are tracking it. Here is what has progressed and what has slowed in wind, solar, EV, and battery sectors after Trump 2.0 + 1 month. 1/4 #energysky

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Glad to see @kenpaulman.bsky.social reporting that Dominion Energy is moving ahead with the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. #energysky www.canarymedia.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Especially sorry to see the used EV tax credits lumped into this proposal - the requirements to qualify for those incentives made sure they helped lower-income individuals and families get into affordable used EVs. 🔌💡 🔌🚗 Here is the bill: www.barrasso.senate.gov/public/_cach...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"The Trump administration is about to face dozens and perhaps hundreds of lawsuits over breach of contract," writes @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/tru... 🔌💡

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Huh, I wonder if having a better sense of where climate disasters are going to cause political chaos and social unrest around the world might be useful to deterring and winning wars? Probably not, or Four Star Fox & Friends here would certainly know about it.

submitted 11 days ago • 49 comments

A new study by @tnorris.bsky.social found a way to power the AI boom without building a bunch of new gas plants. The results “buy us time” to figure out what Deepseek means and for nuclear to catch up to growing demand needs. kaufman.substack.com/p/study-find...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 12 days ago • 257 comments

TODAY! Fight for @noaa.gov at 2pm at the Department of Commerce. NOAA saves lives. It could be yours. 💙🌊✊

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

KORE Power has a backup plan. Julian Spector at @canarymedia.com has the scoop. 🔌💡 🔌🚗 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration has ordered states to rework their plans for using $5B in federal NEVI funds to build public fast-charging sites along highways across the country, putting hundreds of projects in limbo. Experts say that’s illegal: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-... #energysky

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Reports of yet another battery project on the rocks: Freyr Battery is canceling plans for its $2.6B gigafactory in Georgia, which promised 723 jobs and 34 GWh of annual battery manufacturing capacity. This project did not have a DOE loan. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/06/f... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Trump just canceled the federal NEVI EV charger program

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI | Grist grist.org/politics/the...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Environmental justice is one of the most important reasons to work on climate and environment so this is total shit.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Having trouble concentrating? Maybe it is the air. Fascinating study on how exposure to PM2.5 air pollution can have effects on brain function, including "selective attention and emotion expression discrimination." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Another paused battery project: In March 2024, AESC announced a $1.5 billion expansion of its gigafactory in SC. The initial phases of the project are under construction, but this expansion, which would have employed 1080 more people, is now on hold. www.postandcourier.com/business/aes... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

New, from @jeffstjohn.bsky.social and I: Here's the full list of the 53 projects backed by $107B worth of DOE loans under the Biden administration, which may be at risk as the new LPO chief mulls canceling loans inconsistent w/ Trump's vision. #energysky www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Toyota's big US battery factory is going to create 5,100 jobs in NC and help build out a US supply chain for EVs. Expanding on @jessedjenkins.com: Hey Republicans in Congress: Don't mess this all up! Retain EV tax credits! Protect 45X Advanced Manufacturing Tax Credits too. 🔌💡 🔌🚗

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

New Englanders dependent on heating oil or propane will see the biggest jumps in energy prices if tariffs on Canada do wind up going into effect. Great reporting from @miriamwasser.bsky.social.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

In my energy course, I have students run some back-of-the-envelope calculations on corn v. solar to estimate out how much land would be needed to power a biofuel pick-up truck vs. an EV pick-up truck for a year. They arrive at a similar result…

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

electrek.co/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

To the students doing research on environmental justice and just energy transitions: your scholarship is important and your scholarship matters

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Important reporting on the Trump administration’s redoubled efforts to undermine the key role the EPA’s career civil servants’ have played in steadying the agency and keeping it on course over the years. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/c...

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For those watching the battery supply chain, US-based KORE Power has nixed a 6 GWh battery factory planned for AZ. It was a $1 billion project that would have employed 3000 people. KORE had conditional approval for an $850M DOE loan. #energysky www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

“Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We've seen efforts to "reform" the EPA before, but they were usually covered by a veneer of pseudo-environmental concern. Not this time. This Trump administration is brazen in championing its ties to industry. Just ask the Institute of Makers of Explosives… www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

And references to climate change removed from most prominent pages on EPA website. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

With respect, suspending electric building codes for homes that burned down in LA so people can rebuild with highly flammable fossil gas is a terrible policy. This doesn't protect neighbors next time. And it worsens the climate crisis. Do better, Mayor Bass. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

"The concentration of nickel, manganese and cobalt measured on the surface of the soil is hundreds to thousands of times as much as the levels in the surface soil prior to the fire or compared with levels measured deeper in the soil." Early data on pollution from CA battery fire is very concerning.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, the anti-dumping countervailing duties investigation initiated January 8th continues.. “If a 900% tariff were assessed on the anode, we estimate the incremental cost could be ~$135/kWh, representing a ~125% increase in the DC-block to ~$255/kWh.” 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/01/31/b...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The horror continues in eastern Congo — yes, mineral-rich eastern Congo. Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have taken Goma, a city of a million people. Water & power cut off. Thousands are fleeing. Over a dozen UN peacekeepers killed. Those minerals? Some are probably in the phone you're holding.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Helpful overview of state of play re: federal support for EV charging infrastructure.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🔌💡Just a few years ago, if somebody told me that battery prices would fall to $50/kWh, I would have laughed! But soon they'll be $25/kWh! It's an absolutely astonishing feat! You could get an entire Tesla Model 3 battery pack for $2,000 - $3,000! What a world that would be! #EVs #battchat

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments