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Ari Natter

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Covering energy and climate policy for Bloomberg News in Washington, DC.

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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NEW: The Trump administration is studying using oil under land at US military bases and other Department of War sites to help refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserves. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Considers Tapping Oil Under Military Bases to Refill Reserve
The Trump administration is studying using oil under land at US military bases and other Department of War sites to help refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserves, according to a person familiar...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW: Energy Department project list illustrates plans to keep billions for remaining hydrogen hub projects. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US to Preserve Billions in Hydrogen Funds Pegged for Termination
The Trump administration plans to preserve billions of dollars in funding for hydrogen ventures and other projects previously earmarked for termination.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
SCOOP: The US is awarding $2.7 billion to domestic to nuclear fuel makers as part of an effort to restart domestic production. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nuclear Fuel Makers Get $2.7 Billion From US as AI Boosts Power Demand
The US is awarding $900 million each to Centrus Energy Corp. and two other nuclear fuel makers as part of an effort to restart domestic production and wean the US off of enriched Russian uranium.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🚨Breaking: Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt issuing new wind leases and permits was ruled illegal by a federal judge. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge
President Donald Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt issuing new wind leases and permits was ruled illegal by a federal judge.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Nearly 80% of the planned power plant capacity in the pipeline is tied to renewable sources. #energysky
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Trump is looking to tap the nation’s network of large industrial diesel generators used at data centers, big box stores and elsewhere to help curb rising electricity costs and support the surge in power demand from artificial intelligence. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Eyes Backup Generators From Walmart in Quest for Power
The US is looking to tap the nation’s network of large industrial diesel generators used at data centers, big box stores and elsewhere to help curb rising electricity costs and support the surge in po...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Energy Department’s iconic National Renewable Energy Laboratory will now be known as the National Laboratory of the Rockies. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Strikes ‘Renewable’ From National Renewable Energy Lab
The Trump administration is renaming the National Renewable Energy Laboratory the National Laboratory of the Rockies, in its latest move to re-characterize federal entities associated with clean energ...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trump’s Energy Department reorganization announced today nixed offices dedicated to clean energy and renewables and creates new ones dedicated to hydrocarbons and critical minerals. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Energy Department Revamp Nixes Clean-Energy Offices
The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
US negotiations with Saudi Arabia on a long-sought nuclear-technology-sharing deal have been completed, potentially opening the door for American companies to build reactors in the kingdom. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Reaches Initial Deal With Saudi Arabia on Nuclear Sharing
US negotiations with Saudi Arabia on a long-sought nuclear technology-sharing deal have been completed, potentially opening the door for American companies to build reactors in the kingdom.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
SCOOP w/ @josheidelson.bsky.social RFK Jr. has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate offshore wind farms #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar wi...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
energy policy in Washington 🚨Trump is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Re-Opens Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain to Oil Drilling
The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wildern...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration has begun to refill the US's depleted strategic oil reserve, taking advantage of low oil prices to buy 1 million barrels. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US to Buy 1 Million Barrels for Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Trump administration plans to buy 1 million barrels for the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, taking advantage of low oil prices to begin filing the depleted stockpile.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A non-energy story from me: Your Christmas beer could be the latest casualty of the US government shutdown. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Blame the US Shutdown for Missing the Newest Seasonal Craft Beers and Spirits
America will have to wait for the new creamy version of Magic Rabbit chocolate and peanut butter flavored whiskey.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Furloughs for thousands of workers at the US at the federal agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal could begin as soon as Friday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Nuclear Weapons Agency to Begin Furloughs, Energy Chief Warns
The US will be forced to furlough workers at the federal agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal as soon as Friday if the government shutdown continues, E...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration closed their first deal from the Energy Department’s loan program - $1.6 billion in financing for utility American Electric Power. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Awards $1.6 Billion in Financing for AEP Transmission Project
The Trump administration has finalized $1.6 billion in financing for an American Electric Power Co. subsidiary to upgrade 5,000 miles of utility transmission lines across five states.
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The story comes a day after my colleague @arinatter.bsky.social broke the news that the US Energy Department plans to cancel $7.6 billion of projects. That includes an award for CarbonCapture's regional direct air capture hub project. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s $7.6 Billion Energy Cuts Hit California Grid Upgrade
The Trump administration’s plan to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the US government shutdown includes an initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration’s plans to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the US government shutdown includes an $600 million initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s $7.6 Billion Energy Cuts Hit California Grid Upgrade
The Trump administration’s plan to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the US government shutdown includes an initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration canceling billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as it seeks to pressure Democrats in shutdown fight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Set to Cancel West Coast Hydrogen Hubs Amid Shutdown Fight
The Trump administration is planning to cancel billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as part of its first tranche of funding cuts following the go...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Trump administration plans to allow work on “priority conventional energy projects” to continue during the government shutdown, halting permitting for some renewable energy projects. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
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Trump to Keep Oil Permits Moving in Shutdown, Freezes Renewables
The Trump administration plans to allow permits for oil drilling and other work on “priority conventional energy projects” to continue during the government shutdown, while work on some renewable ener...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration has completed a deal to take an equity stake in Lithium America’s as part of a deal to renegotiate a $2.3 billion U.S. loan. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US to Take Stake in Lithium Americas to Boost Nevada Project
The US government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas Corp., Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker ...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
NEW: Trump is announcing a sweeping effort to help US coal the includes hundreds of millions to help retrofit existing coal plants and build new projects, opening 13 million acres in leasing. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Opens 13 Million Acres for Coal Mines to Aid Ailing Sector
The Trump administration is opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for leasing to coal miners and providing $625 million for power plants that burn the fuel as part of a broad initiative to help r...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New: The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Stop More Coal Closures
The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Surging utility bills in key battleground states are threatening to become a political liability for Republicans heading into upcoming elections. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Soaring Power Bills in Largest US Grid Pose Risk for Republicans
Surging utility bills in key battleground states are threatening to become a political liability for Republicans heading into upcoming elections.
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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Gift link so we all have access. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Plans to Block Development of Another Offshore Wind Farm
The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on the clean energy source loathed by the p...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨NEWS: The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on wind power. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Plans to Block Development of Another Offshore Wind Farm
The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on the clean energy source loathed by the p...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into imported wind turbines and parts, a potential precursor to adding more tariffs on the clean-energy components. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Launches Probe of Wind Turbines, Opening Door to More Tariffs
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into imported wind turbines and parts, a potential precursor to adding more tariffs on the clean-energy components.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The Trump administration tightened long-standing eligibility requirements for clean energy tax credits, a move that could threaten the viability of hundreds of wind and solar energy projects under development. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Latest Attack on Wind and Solar Squeezes Tax Breaks
The Trump administration tightened long-standing eligibility requirements for clean energy tax credits, a move that could threaten the viability of hundreds of wind and solar energy projects under dev...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Trump administration is set to announce its plans to abolish the US government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, threatening to strike a deep blow at Washington’s ability to fight climate change. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Set to Unravel US Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
The Trump administration is set to announce its plans to abolish the US government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, threatening to strike a deep blow at Washington’s ability to fight climate ...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
SCOOP: The US agency responsible for maintaining the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons was among those breached by hackers exploiting Microsoft’s SharePoint. (🎁) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack
The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint document management software, according...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Trump is allowing chemical makers, coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Exempts Scores of Plants From Biden’s Pollution Rules
President Donald Trump is allowing coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The US may depart the International Energy Agency without changes to forecasting that Republicans have criticized as unrealistically green, President Donald Trump’s energy chief said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Threatens to Abandon IEA Over Green-Leaning Energy Forecasts
The US may depart the International Energy Agency without changes to forecasting that Republicans have criticized as unrealistically green, President Donald Trump’s energy chief said.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14/07/2025
TODAY: What's the future of US solar, wind and EV projects under Trump's tax law? Ahead of #BloombergGreen Seattle, @akshatrathi.bsky.social, @michellema.bsky.social, @arinatter.bsky.social and @mchediak.bsky.social will answer your questions. 🎧 Tune in to our Live Q&A at 1pm EDT: bit.ly/44tYaPx
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Blackouts in the US could double by 2030 amid an increase in power demand brought on by AI, according to a Trump administration report that blames the expected energy shortfall on the closures of coal and natural gas power plants and overreliance on renewables. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Warns of Blackout Risk From Killing Coal as Trump Snubs Renewables
Blackouts in the US could double by 2030 amid an expected increase in power demand brought on by AI, according to a Trump administration report that blames the expected energy shortfall on the closure...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Public land sales dropped from Trump tax bill. x.com/SenMikeLee/s...
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Mike Lee on X: "https://t.co/bFgfp4nclb" / X
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Key tax incentives for US wind and solar projects would face a more aggressive phase-out in the Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s spending package. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Wind, Solar Credits Face Shorter Phase-Out in GOP’s New Tax Bill
Key tax incentives for US wind and solar projects would face a more aggressive phase-out in the Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s spending package.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Public land sales are back in Trump’s tax bill — at least for now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Public Land Sales Return in Scaled-Back Form in Trump Tax Bill
A new version of a plan to sell vast tracts of public lands to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts has been added back into the Senate’s latest version of the package.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Shares of solar companies surged after a Republican Senator said lawmakers are discussing changes to a provision in President Donald Trump’s broad spending bill that would abruptly end tax credits for rooftop panels. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Solar Stocks Soar as GOP Mulls Changes to Tax Credits in Bill
Shares of solar companies surged after a Republican Senator said lawmakers are discussing changes to a provision in President Donald Trump’s broad spending bill that would abruptly end tax credits for...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: The sale of millions of acres of public land has been blocked by the Senate’s rule keeper. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Public Land Sales Blocked From Inclusion in Trump’s Tax Bill
A Senate proposal to sell millions of acres of public land to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts and spending has been blocked by the Senate’s rule keeper.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Virginia Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans cast herself as one of the chief defenders of clean energy tax credits - then she voted for the House bill gutting them. Now Democrats want to turn her vote into a political liability. (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Republican Who Flip-Flopped on Energy Credits Risks Voters’ Ire
In the weeks before the House of Representative’s vote to gut clean energy tax credits in President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, Virginia Congresswoman Jen Kiggans cast herself as th...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Senate Republicans included a tax break estimated to be worth more than $1 billion for oil and gas producers in their version of President Donald Trump’s sprawling fiscal package. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Oil Industry Gets $1 Billion Tax Tweak in GOP’s Senate Bill
Senate Republicans included a tax break estimated to be worth more than $1 billion for oil and gas producers in their version of President Donald Trump’s sprawling fiscal package.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
As much as 3 million acres of public land would be sold for billions under a portion of the Senate’s tax bill unveiled Wednesday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Millions of Acres of Public Land Sales Added to Trump’s Tax Bill
The sale of millions of acres of federal land would provide billions of dollars to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts and spending in the Senate’s version of the bill re...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: The EPA is poised to unveil plans to repeal Biden’s limits on power plant emissions as soon as tomorrow. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 🎁
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Trump Poised to Repeal Biden’s Curbs on Power-Plant Pollution
The Trump administration will propose scrapping Biden-era climate mandates requiring the nation’s power plants to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions as soon as Wednesday, according to people...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Lost River State Park, W. Va. #outofoffice
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Anne Cronin @annecronin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
That Big Beautiful Bill that Musk is now attacking eliminated a tax credit worth $1.2 billion to Tesla, Richard Clough and @arinatter.bsky.social report > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Tesla Has $1.2 Billion at Risk in Trump Tax Bill
An all-but-doomed tax credit highlights just how much Elon Musk’s biggest business has to lose under President Donald Trump.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Senate Republicans plan to add a proposal to sell public land to raise money for Trump’s tax cut package into their version of the legislation. House stripped it out amid opposition from lawmakers like Montana’s Rep. Zinke. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Senate to Add Public Land Sales to Help Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts
Senate Republicans plan to add the sale of public land into their version of President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts, according to a key lawmaker.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Budget documents show the Trump administrations expects to offer $67 billion in financing from the green bank Trump once sought to kill. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Plans to Tap Biden’s Green Bank to Make Billions in Loans
The Trump administration plans to use a $400 billion green bank the president once sought to kill to finance billions of dollars in loans for nuclear reactors, geothermal power and critical minerals, ...
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ICYMI last night: The Trump administration ordered another power plant to remain operational by invoking emergency powers for a second time, a day before the facility in Pennsylvania was scheduled to close. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Emergency Order Halts Second Power Plant From Closure
The Trump administration ordered another power plant to remain operational by invoking emergency powers for a second time, a day before the facility in Pennsylvania was scheduled to close.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Among cancelled projects are hundreds of millions for an Exxon hydrogen project, clean cement, and Kraft’s “delicious decarbonization” initiative. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Is Canceling $3.7 Billion in Clean Energy Projects
The Energy Department is canceling some $3.7 billion in government support for clean energy projects it said did not warrant continued backing from the Trump administration.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Senate voted to block a California program banning gasoline-powered cars and other vehicles by 2035, sending the measure to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Senate Votes to End California Gas-Car Ban, Sends Bill to Trump
The US Senate voted to block a California program banning gasoline-powered cars and other vehicles by 2035, sending the measure to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.
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Ari Natter @arinatter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Tax incentives for clean electricity production are set to end years earlier then initially proposed in a new version of the giant tax and spending bill released by House Republicans on Wednesday night. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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GOP Tax Bill Revisions End Clean Energy Credits Years Earlier
Tax incentives for clean electricity production are set to end years earlier then initially proposed in a new version of the giant tax and spending bill released by House Republicans on Wednesday nigh...
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