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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.”

Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer.

This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today.

This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later.

Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May?

This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.

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Jason Plautz @jasonplautz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Want to understand Trump's tech and energy agenda? Look to this 6,000-acre stretch of dusty plains outside of Amarillo. My dive into Fermi America's ambitious, risky, audacious and Trump-coded data center play. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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Trump, atoms, AI and the Texas data center gusher

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Jason Plautz @jasonplautz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"We have real lives at stake." For the Hopi Tribe, the Trump funding freeze isn't just about numbers on a spreadsheet -- stalled projects could determine whether households get reliable electricity or not. www.eenews.net/articles/we-...

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‘We have real lives at stake’: Trump impedes Arizona tribe’s energy lifeline

The Hopi Tribe wants to use clean energy to replace the shuttered Navajo Generating Station. Those projects are now at risk.

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Jason Plautz @jasonplautz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

David Sacks may not be an energy wonk. But as Trump's AI and Crypto czar, his work to unshackle the tech industry will have huge implications for the grid and the climate. Where does he stand? www.eenews.net/articles/ene...

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Energy is AI’s barrier to entry. David Sacks knows it.

President Donald Trump’s adviser on artificial intelligence wants the U.S. to go big on data centers. Powering the tech boom is a harder question.

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