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if a consumer carbon tax can't survive in canada, where the center left party is hegemonic, where super majorities of the population think climate change is real and a problem, can it survive anywhere? heatmap.news/economy/cana...

Yes, I'm a climate reporter. But the story of how the Trump admin's moves are threatening science & research is bigger than climate. So I spoke w/economists, physicists, sociologists, computer scientists, health scientists, and climate researchers for this piece: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is basically what I say in my book. Without road pricing/congestion pricing, the lower costs of charging and running EVs will lead to a lot more driving

So I’m now writing a running series on the Moss Landing battery fire for @heatmap.news. My first story asks a crucial question: Is this an East Palestine moment for the energy transition? Few environmental stories as important as this right now (sans climate ofc). heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

This is a *fantastic* episode of @heatmap.news that speaks directly to the local politics of climate assets and that everyone in the Uk (the land where NIMBYsm was first conceived) should listen to.

tesla shares up 7.5% today, some of it is from the slower than expected inflation print (nvidia and meta are also ripping), but it's also, i think, evidence of the trump put in action heatmap.news/electric-veh...

Tesla is turning into something closer to a union between Black Rifle Coffee and Nvidia — at least as far as the stock market and its public perception is concerned heatmap.news/electric-veh...

One the one hand, green energy investors are very very nervous about the IRA — and it's not like the business was doing great before November 5 — but now they're holding out hope that the AI boom can lift all energy boats heatmap.news/economy/gree...

tesla has shed roughly a comcast in market value

what a shame. I always thought he was one of the most interesting stories of the blog period because he had no previous experience in media, someone who would never have been found otherwise.

via @weisenthal.bsky.social

More and more people are saying it: Degrowth Donald heatmap.news/politics/gre...

tesla is a large cap that trades like a meme stock

big story. follow and read @afreedma.bsky.social

tesla has lost around $100bn in market value but no one can tweet about it

Donald Trump, the American politician brave enough to tax oil, electricity, cars, and the building materials that literally undergird America's wasteful, carbon intensive suburban lifestyle. heatmap.news/politics/gre...

Excellent run-down of the barriers to building new natural gas capacity in the US, and why turbine manufacturers don't seem interested in building up capacity any time soon.

*thing joe talks about all the time* "this is one of my side-side-side interests"

if you're asking yourself: what is going on with government permitting under the trump administration right now? you're not alone

the fixation in democratic circles on "podcasts" and "influencers" is absolutely deranged. harris (and biden) did a ton of podcasts/untraditional media — call her daddy, stern, smartless. it's easy to book podcasts, it's what you say (and what they say about you) that matters

i understand why people think chuck schumer tweeting about tomato prices is lame, but do we all just forget that until yesterday the consensus left, right, and center was that harris lost because of inflation and that no one cared when dems said trump was an authoritarian

rockland county is going to have some amazingly smooth highways

I’m aware of far more than just this program being impacted. If you have been contracted funding under the IRA or BIL, or any other federal energy program, and have been told to stop working, I want to hear from you: [email protected] DM me for Signal

This @jessedjenkins.com pod featuring @roryjohnston.bsky.social is 10/10 no notes. Everything you never knew you wanted to know about how Canadian crude plays an integral and irreplaceable role in the US market. API gravity, sulfur, pipeline path dependency, refining science, & market microstructure

China’s DeepSeek Ends the Party for U.S. Energy Stocks "It’s not just AI companies taking a beating today," writes @zeitlin.bsky.social via @heatmap.news heatmap.news/sparks/deeps...

usefuly application of artificial intelligence in journalism

“Mr. Trump’s administration, or at least his energy policy, is revealing itself as a set of closely managed tensions within his coalition and even, sometimes, within his own psyche.” For the NYT, I wrote about the guiding logic of Trump’s energy policy:

Important story here from my colleague @alexckaufman.bsky.social It's about how Trump's policy directives are killing wind energy projects, but also about how the Democrats' failure to fix permitting was undermining these projects even beforehand www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

but how many cars did it destroy

"Despite the dire warning in the ice cores, an AMOC collapse wasn’t on the public’s radar before its introduction via Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal." Read @jeva.bsky.social's retrospective on 2004's "eerily prescient" disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow, feat. @whitleystrieber.bsky.social.

Trump just named Mark Christie chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Revisit @zeitlin.bsky.social's interview with Christie, an outspoken critic of deregulation and champion of "ample 'dispatchable' resources" below.

much to think about

Heatmap doing amazing work. Climate folks: support this sort of journalism if you don’t already!

GiveDirectly Is Giving Cash to L.A. Fire Victims, No Questions Asked The nonprofit uses a mixture of public data and algorithmic magic to unleash funds fast. @givedirectly.bsky.social @katiebrigham.bsky.social @heatmap.news heatmap.news/technology/l...

We need a norovirus vaccine now www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

"An electric pickup truck has exactly the attributes that would appeal to someone who wanted to launch a terrorist attack on a crowd of people." heatmap.news/electric-veh...

Great piece on Chris Wright from @zeitlin.bsky.social. He focuses on energy access in developing countries, argues that wind and solar make the grid more unreliable, and, like Bill Gates, is a fan of Vaclav Smil. heatmap.news/climate/chri...

Recommended piece on Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Energy. @heatmap.news

Anyone in climate world knows about these climate *action* skeptics — they accept the basic reality of climate change, but don't think the typical policy response is effective or worth it. Now one of them — a fracker, no less —will likely be the Secretary of Energy. heatmap.news/climate/chri...

literally happening as trump takes office lol