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The Metals Company is seeking Trump administration approval to mine the Pacific for critical minerals, an area controlled by the International Seabed Authority. That could upend the UN treaty that governs deep sea mining & other uses of the world’s oceans. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Elon Musk was on Fox News tonight with Bret Baier along with SEVEN men from DOGE: Steve Davis, introduced as the DOGE COO Anthony Armstrong Joe Gebbia (on the Tesla board) Brad Smith Tom Krause Tyler Hassen *Aram Moghaddassi

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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...

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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...

submitted 16 days ago • 139 comments

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...

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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...

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

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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

submitted 18 days ago • 578 comments

ICYMI 👇

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

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

@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...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 128 comments

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...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

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.”

submitted 34 days ago • 134 comments

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

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

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 58 comments

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...

submitted 35 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 36 days ago • 851 comments

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

submitted 37 days ago • 1128 comments

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

submitted 37 days ago • 72 comments

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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.

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

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

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

submitted 49 days ago • 16 comments

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.”

submitted 49 days ago • 731 comments

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-...

submitted 50 days ago • 94 comments

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

submitted 51 days ago • 1095 comments

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

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

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...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 58 days ago • 52 comments

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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submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

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...

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

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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... 🔌💡

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

🧵 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

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