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mchediak.bsky.social
Journalist for Bloomberg News writing about utilities, renewables and climate disasters. Opinions are my own.
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Chinese electric car maker BYD says its developed a charging system that’s now as fast as refueling at a gas station. Looks like a game changer. #GreenSky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere. It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...

Self-promotion time: My feature on the real reasons the US lost the solar power race to China just won the @sabew.bsky.social award for Explanatory writing. Please give it a read! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Trump administration is launching a sweeping overhaul of US environmental mandates in a campaign it billed as the “biggest deregulatory action” of its kind in US history. Story by @arinatter.bsky.social & @jendlouhy.bsky.social #GreenSky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports took effect without any exemptions

NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

ICYMI 👇

Breaking News -> Ontario Raises Electricity Price by 25% for Minnesota, Michigan and New York www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@bloomberg.com spoke with Edison CEO Pedro Pizarro about the company’s possible role in the #EatonFire and California wildfire risk. See our exclusive story. 🎁 Link: Edison Has Miles of Idle Power Lines in High Fire Risk Zones www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla's plunging sales, stock and Musk's Brutalist-length Rogan podcast @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Solar 🍦 by @arinatter.bsky.social #GreenSky #EnergySky 🎁 Link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

Solar made up the majority of new annual US power capacity additions last year and is expected to do the same this year. But the Trump Administration's moves against green energy have unsettled the industry. My latest with @michellema.bsky.social #GreenSky 🎁 Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From Dow Jones, CEO of Alcoa speaking at a conference: *Alcoa CEO: 100,000 US Jobs at Risk of Being Eliminated from Tariffs >AA *Alcoa Would Not Reshore Aluminum Production in US Based On Tariff Structure In Place for Short Time Period >AA

Musk said that all federal workers will get an email asking “what they got done last week” and that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations. nyti.ms/4i1ril4

DOGE staffer Marko Elez, who had to resign from Treasury, is now at Social Security Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, as part of a broader shakeup of top military officers.

An idle high-voltage transmission line is suspected of sparking the deadly Eaton Fire near Los Angeles. As it turns out, California doesn't know how many more of these unused lines are strung up across the fire-prone state. A big risk hiding in plain sight. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

Elon Musk's companies have gained a combined $613 billion in value since the election

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

PG&E CEO Patti Poppe tells me that the utility needs California lawmakers to shore up a state fire insurance fund after the devastating LA wildfires. Otherwise, investors won’t want to put capital into California utilities due to fire liability risk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI is expected to increase Chinese electricity demand by 600 TWh by 2030. No problem at all, because demand from factories alone grew 300 TWh just last year. Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on Monday.

Exclusive: "It's chaos." The world's most sophisticated weather agency struggles to comprehend what it's supposed to do now. By @laurenthal.bsky.social and @weathersullivan.bsky.social 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Big scoop - Elliott swoops on BP (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hearing DOGE is cutting off access to EIA and NREL datasets 🔌💡

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Trump’s tax agenda outlined by the White House today will add at least $5 trillion to the debt, potentially much more. Per new analysis by nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...

The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies

Why did army corps dump water from 2 Tulare co lakes? Welllll…. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

Trump is purging vital scientific data, including a climate-justice tool for the health and financial well-being of millions of Americans. There's a Data Dunkirk saving this data, but there shouldn't have to be 🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

President Donald Trump has rescinded an order freezing an array of federal grants, loans and financial assistance, a dramatic reversal after days of uncertainty and anxiety rocked governments and nonprofit organizations

DeepSeek hit Sam Altman's other co, Oklo. Why? With new nuclear at scale a decade away, a lot of disruption can happen @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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You have DeepSeek energy and emissions questions? @michellema.bsky.social and @mchediak.bsky.social have some answers

Hi! Climate reporter here at Bloomberg News tracking all the news about FEMA. If you're at FEMA or work with FEMA, and want to talk about what changes are already or may be coming down the line and what it means for disaster response/recovery -- you can reach me securely on signal at zhirji.51.

ICYMI - Trump isn’t just freezing permits for wind but #solar projects as well. Story with @jendlouhy.bsky.social #Energysky #Greeensky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 Plan He Once Dismissed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Once the future of solar power, the landmark Ivanpah solar thermal power plant along I-15 near the Nevada-California border is past its prime, left in the desert dust by cheaper solar PV. Now, two of the three units are scheduled to go offline in 2026. www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n... 🔌💡

🧵 Firefighters run toward houses on fire. And they do the same with forests, even when they're thousands of miles away. This is the story of international firefighting mutual aid — which has been front and center for the LA fires — and how climate change could blow it up

Fire Explodes North of LA, Threatens Crucial Interstate Cal Fire warns of an immediate threat to life as winds pick up www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com Laura Curtis @weathersullivan.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social Alex Newman, Alicia Clanton @mchediak.bsky.social

Southern California Edison has three days to produce data from the four circuits closest to where the Eaton fire started, a judge ordered news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...