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Karin Rives

@karinrives.bsky.social
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Senior climate and energy reporter at S&P Global. Any opinions expressed here are my own!

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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As US sits on the sidelines, other nations are “staying the course” on climate action. It’s a tough challenge ahead and most nations are lagging behind their pledges as energy demand and global emissions rise. But people at #ClimateWeek told me. tinyurl.com/2v4xnw6k
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most people don’t know that the US-Mexico border is fluid and home to a vibrant cultural region where people work, live and go to school on “the other side.” Check out these photos!
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Bob Rives on Instagram: "Kickstarter campaign is now live for my new photobook, La Frontera #kickstarter"
bobrivesphoto on September 26, 2026: "Kickstarter campaign is now live for my new photobook, La Frontera #kickstarter".
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of talk about AI, data centers and the rush to market at #ClimateWeekNYC this week. Less so about the industry’s carbon footprint, it seemed. tinyurl.com/4u7b5mk
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
$1 billion. That’s roughly the expenses US power companies have incurred so far after being ordered by the Trump administration to keep running coal, gas and oil-fired plants past their retirement dates. Ratepayers will ultimately cover a large portion of these costs. tinyurl.com/3s8mtaxc
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Amazing we’re having this conversation in a democracy that just turned 250. From the @nytimes.com’s latest autocracy index:
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
”Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom” with the US set to add a record 45 GW of renewables in 2026, per S&P Global Energy. 👏 tinyurl.com/mu6yd4hz
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Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway
Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
States, Native American tribes and communities nationwide learned a year ago that the Trump administration had canceled the $7 billion Solar for All program. We checked in with grantees to see what’s happened since. tinyurl.com/y6b8uedp
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Amazon-Duke Energy diesel generator plans for a large data center in rural North Carolina face legal questions. At issue is how and who accounts for pollution from 649 diesel generators under the Clean Air Act. tinyurl.com/bdhr23yn
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For the past two years, US power companies were rushing out plans for massive amounts of new fossil fueled-fired generation. Until the planned building boom suddenly stalled in Q2. Uncertainty over data centers may have something to do with it, analysts said. Stay tuned. tinyurl.com/mwse38d6
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Power providers, state floodplain managers and emergency preparedness officials are heading into the 2026 hurricane and wildfire season with questions about what role the federal government will play if disaster strikes. tinyurl.com/3f2crs49
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What do the US, Belarus, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have in common? 🤔 This motley crew of autocratic nations were the only ones voting against a UN resolution this week to reduce #climate pollution.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here’s a silver lining to our high oil and gasoline prices⛽️: Americans are riding more bikes 🚴 — good for air and health! And they took 45 million more bus rides 🚍 than before Trump’s war, according to the @nytimes.com.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
California has the largest virtual power plant in the world, with 200,000 participants. At the exact moment when the grid is dirtiest and most expensive to run, this program surges in with the cheapest, cleanest power. Newsom's budget would kill it. That's just bad policy.
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200,000 Californians create as much power as a nuclear plant to help the grid. Now that's up in the air
California has one of the most successful "virtual power plants" in the world, but it's on the chopping block.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
That is, if the GOP listens to the Senate Parliamentarian. They haven’t in the recent past.
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Senate Parliamentarian Kills Core of Republicans' ICE Funding Package
Senate rulekeeper strips CBP appropriations and $2.5B DHS fund, citing conflicts with child protection laws — and the Trump administration's own record.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Hardly a Mother’s Day topic but here’s what’s on many moms’ minds these days: How to pay spiraling energy bills. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDO...
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OPC complaint challenges PJM cost rules for unfairly assigning $2 billion in data center-driven transmission costs to Marylanders
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Democrats’ ”first priority must be to materially improve workers’ lives, rather than propose a grand vision of an #energy transition.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
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Opinion | Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
61 years after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states are now rushing to redraw their voting districts to dilute the minority vote. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Opinion | John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
China took the #cleanenergy ball and ran with it. Like everyone said they would. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
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As Oil Prices Stay High, China Doubles Down on Wind Power
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The US power sector now has plans to add 155 GW of fossil fuel capacity to meet mostly data center-driven electricity demand. 99% would be natural gas-fired power plants. Tackling #climate change is so yesterday. tinyurl.com/dhbn6vwj
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yes!!! Could be a harbinger of more good news to come…
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is how we manage a country and make America great again.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
US power companies are racing to install AI-powered smoke detection cameras, more satellite weather stations and new grid technology to get ahead of what could be an intense 2026 wildfire season. #climate tinyurl.com/ycyj3acn
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
US coal plants are back in favor — and carbon and hazardous air emissions are soaring. tinyurl.com/2s9pafe2
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Imagine how bad the latest energy crisis would be in the EU if the electricity mix still looked like it did 20 years ago. Electricity mix fossil share 2005 → 2025 🇩🇰Denmark: 73% → 9% 🇵🇹Portugal: 82% → 19% 🇳🇱Netherlands: 88% → 46% 🇮🇪Ireland: 93% → 52% 🇪🇸Spain: 66% → 25% 🇬🇷Greece: 89% → 50%
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“To win in life, you’ve got to suffer short-term pain for the long-term gain, and that’s what we’re in the middle of doing right now.” (Energy Secretary Chris Wright)
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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Supporting expensive and aging coal-fired power plants is becoming a consistent strategy for the Trump administration. Today’s rollback, if upheld by courts, translates into 1,000 pounds more mercury released into US air and water. tinyurl.com/ev3cp7nn
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The US energy industry faces new uncertainty after the #Trump administration upended the landmark 2009 endangerment #climate rule. Legal experts disagree over how and when sectors beyond vehicles will be affected — the courts will tell. tinyurl.com/48cmym3a
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#Climate science was absent from the #Trump administration's plan to gut US greenhouse gas policies. The EPA instead focused on legal arguments seeking to reinterpret a section of the Clean Air Act it says was used illegally for 16 years -- hoping the Supreme Court will agree. tinyurl.com/2trhaf3j
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The #Trump administration will face an onslaught of legal challenges after the agency charged with protecting public health and welfare dismantles the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. tinyurl.com/mr2n9737
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The #Trump administration faces its first industry challenge over coal plant orders that are upending utility plans and violating state laws. tinyurl.com/ba5pr8ec
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There are no words.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison this afternoon: “…just as Portland and Chicago and LA were precursors to Minneapolis, Minneapolis is a precursor to a whole lot of other places.”
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In best Gestapo style, ICE agents murder yet another person in Minnesota, while pepperspraying protesters in -8 F temperatures. We must all help to put an end to this government-sanctioned violence. How can we help??
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Email correspondence shows how a disputed and litigated 2025 DOE climate report was crafted and used to support the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding. The repeal would halt future efforts to regulate climate-warming emissions. tinyurl.com/mwvrbuvh
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Davos: “If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.”
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A line for European leaders struggling to get organized around a cohesive message and course of action?
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Virginia is rejoining the RGGI carbon market as @governorva.bsky.social Abigail Spanberger resets the state’s energy agenda. tinyurl.com/42wkz3er
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This breaks my heart. I never ever thought the country I fell in love with and adopted as my own would treat people like this. This poor man, I read, is a US citizen. If it happens to him, it could happen to me. Because we’re immigrants. Or because we talk or look ”different.”
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Heja Danmark! 💪
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said Greenland would choose Denmark, NATO and the EU over a US invasion. According to the AP, Trump later said: “I disagree with him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know anything about him. But, that’s going to be a big problem for him.” 🤔
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Trump administration could face some major legal hurdles as it seeks to halt federal regulation of climate-warming greenhouse gases. The EPA endangerment repeal is going through final White House review and could be pushlished soon. tinyurl.com/y3axt2n8
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We need more Jerome Powells in our country. Who else is out there, willing to defend our eroding democracy, data and the rule of law?
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“When Donald Trump says, ‘We’re going to run the place,’ I want you to think of the Gambino family taking over the Colombo family’s business out in Queens,” he said. “They don’t actually go out and run it. They just get an envelope.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Call It Regime Change. This Is Something Else Entirely.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/01/2026
Looks like this data was quietly updated in the fall for the latest numbers through 2024 - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) produced by NOAA... It is now up to a 54% increase in the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since 1990 (AGGI = 1.54; heat trapping)
Line graph time series of CO2 equivalent mixing ratio (in ppm) from 1700 through 2024 for AGGI, CO2 alone, and CO2 plus non-CO2 GHGs. There is a long-term increasing trend in recent years only.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“This order will pass tens of millions in costs to Colorado ratepayers, in order to keep a coal plant open that is broken and not needed," Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said of the lastest DOE “emergency” order. tinyurl.com/3b5rncbh
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The US Department of Interior no longer mentions climate-warming methane leaking from orphaned wells. But the agency is once again offering federal grants to seal such wells. It’s a rare federal climate program to survive in 2025. tinyurl.com/nhks484e
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
US coal plant operators get a 5-year reprieve from Biden-era regulations seeking to limit wastewater discharges carrying arsenic, mercury and other toxins into drinking water sources. Just in time for the holidays. tinyurl.com/3f4tvpxa
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
You force 317,000 federal workers out the door and — ooops! — unemployment creeps up. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November; unemployment rate up
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.
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Karin Rives @karinrives.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Look for more unpaid power bills and service shut-offs as US energy costs soar. Average residential electricity costs have risen 32% since 2020, S&P Global data shows. #affordability tinyurl.com/tjtbpnes
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