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Energy news mixologist at POLITICO

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Sophia Cai @sophiacai.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
NEWS: The White House wants big tech companies to commit to a data center compact to ensure data centers do not raise household electricity prices, strain water supplies or undermine grid reliability. w/ @jasonplautz.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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White House eyes data center agreements amid energy price spikes
A draft pact, obtained by POLITICO, seeks to help ensure data centers do not raise household electricity prices, strain water resources or undermine grid reliability.
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Bob King @bkingdc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Scoop by @benlefebvre.bsky.social, @zcolman.bsky.social and James Bikales: Trump has a use-it-or-lose-it demand for oil companies thinking of returning to #Venezuela: They go back in NOW, and spend billions of $, or forget about compensation for their seized assets. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump’s message to oil companies on Venezuela: 'You gotta go in'
The White House has told companies they must to rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
More signs the Trump administration is leaning into regime change for Venezuela. It's trying to entice U.S. oil companies that were pushed out years ago to go back in. Scoopy stuff here from @benlefebvre.bsky.social @sophiacai.bsky.social and jbikales.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
'The boys are fighting' --> Scoopy stuff on tensions inside the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in clean energy cuts. From Politico's @sophiacai.bsky.social and @benlefebvre.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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White House, Energy secretary at odds over $30B in cuts
“There are definitely annoyances with the White House about who gets to decide what gets cut and when it gets cut,” an administration official said.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Trump administration says renewable power drives up electricity costs. @zcolman.bsky.social and @catherineaallen.bsky.social ran the numbers. Here's what they found: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices
The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In case you're wondering what the National Academies of Sciences thinks about climate change, @alexguillen.bsky.social breaks down the new report released today. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says
The report is a sharp rebuttal to a recent Trump administration's report, and Republicans have already targeted the report as “a blatant partisan act.”
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Good read from @alexguillen.bsky.social, who spoke to groups whose climate funding was cut by Trump's EPA: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Trump’s killing of climate grants has recipients second-guessing federal help
"The risk is way too high and the effort is way too large," said one environmental group founder about federal grants.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
ICYMI: Solar and wind energy projects must now get Interior Sec. Doug Burgum’s personal sign-off to receive permits across the hundreds of millions of federal acres under his control, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO. @zcolman.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Trump administration taking new steps to block wind and solar projects, undisclosed memo says
The directive puts these renewable energy projects under heightened scrutiny at Interior in a move that could slow approvals and construction.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/04/2025
They know they're doing illegal shit.
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EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email
The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained ...
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
SCOOP: EPA's own legal team was raising red flags about their challenge to Biden's climate spending. EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email politi.co/44CMZnS via @politico
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EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email
The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained ...
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The legal fight over releasing the Biden administration climate and infrastructure funding takes another step forward... www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Federal judge orders immediate thaw of climate, infrastructure funds
President Donald Trump does not have "unfettered power to hamstring in perpetuity" duly passed funding laws, the judge ruled.
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
With all that's going on, my story on the Trump administration's actions contributing to a science brain drain didn't make it outside the paywall. But I thought this portion on how it's affecting international students & interest was worth sharing. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/04/2025
I recently received an e-mail from a Canadian university I'm affiliated with containing 3 lengthy attachments advising that "Canadian university researchers are advised to be extra careful when traveling to US," discussing recommended safety precautions and advice re cancelled collaboration funding.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
SCOOP: Trump canceled funding for the US Global Change Research Program, imperiling the sweeping federal government National Climate Assessment climate study due by 2027. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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POLITICO Pro: Trump moves to hobble major US climate change study
The cuts are a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment that Congress mandated to ensure the government understands the threats posed by rising temperatures.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 02/04/2025
The Wisconsin elections should have nothing to do with Tesla’s awful sales numbers. But Elon Musk’s companies and his politics now exist in self-made symbiosis, says @liamdenning.bsky.social 🎥
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The latest in the saga over the climate spending the Trump EPA is trying to claw back, courtesy of @alexguillen.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Judge hammers EPA over lack of proof of wrongdoing in terminating $20B in climate grants
"Here we are, weeks in, and you're still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
R.I.P Rob McChesney. He was a trenchant critic who saw corporate & commercial media as corrosive to democracy. I admired how his analysis & polemics were grounded in an intimate understanding of the history, structure & power--the political economy--of media. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Climate groups could beat Trump in fight for $20B. It may be too late.
The controversy over $20 billion of climate grants is stalling projects across the country and could force cancelation of projects designed to help people lower their energy costs.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19/03/2025
Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now. "The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money." www.politico.com/news/2025/03... 🔌💡
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Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now
The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Plus a couple more this evening ...
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump EPA move to claw back $20B in climate grants. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now
The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money.
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Paul Demko @pdemko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington” Feinman wrote. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department
For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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POLITICO Pro: Judge slams EPA’s climate grant cancellations: ‘You have to have some kind of evidence’
Judge Tanya Chutkan offered significant criticism of EPA’s action but stopped short of saying she will side with the Climate United Fund.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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EPA launches attack on ‘holy grail’ of climate science — and dozens of enviro rules
The move is the most aggressive attack yet by the Trump administration to undo previous efforts to limit the emissions that are warming the planet.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Oil executives supported Trump. Now he's causing them heartburn.
Oil and gas executives were big backers of the Republican president and his "energy dominance' message, but the trade fights he's picked are driving up their costs and threatening to undermine the eco...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 11/03/2025
New REPEAT Project report: repealing federal tax credits and regs supporting deployment of electric vehicles would slow sales and threaten the economic viability of dozens of manufacturing projects taking shape across the country. zenodo.org/records/1500... 🔌💡
Graphic showing slow down in battery electric vehicle sales if current policies supporting EV adoption are repealed. If EPA tailpipe regulations and federal clean vehicle tax credits are repealed, sales of battery electric vehicles could drop about 30% in 2027 and 40% in 2030 relative to a scenario where current policies are continued.Repealing clean vehicle tax credits would destroy demand for new US EV manufacturing. If federal policies supporting projected market demand for EVs could be met entirely with current assembly plant capacity. This calls into question the economic viability of all additional manufacturing plants that have been announced or are under construction across the US and
would potentially result in the idling of some existing EV assembly plants and workers.Repealing clean vehicle tax credits risks ending America’s battery manufacturing boom. Without clean vehicle tax credits, between 29% and 72% of battery cell manufacturing capacity currently operating or online by the end of 2025 would be unnecessary to meet automotive
demand and could be at risk of closure, in addition to 100% of other planned facilities.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
the irony of slapping tariffs on Canadian crude oil and then wanting to move ahead with a pipeline to allow more Canadian oil to flow AWAY from the United States. amazing. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump calls for company building Keystone XL Pipeline to return to America and ‘get it built’
President Donald Trump is working to restore the Keystone XL Pipeline construction project and asking the company who was initially tasked to build it to come back and resume operations.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
@jessedjenkins.com Story is now public here: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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House Republican support grows for keeping clean energy tax breaks
Lawmakers are expected to start the difficult task this week of determining which of the credits are on the chopping block to help pay for the GOP's budget bill.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Republicans are stating to find parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that they plan to save. And they're getting bolder about it: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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House Republican support grows for keeping clean energy tax breaks
Lawmakers are expected to start the difficult task this week of determining which of the credits are on the chopping block to help pay for the GOP's budget bill.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 04/03/2025
My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW: A group that received a $2B climate grant is spending $539 million — even as EPA tries to claw back those funds. I spoke w/ Power Forward Communities’ CEO about the plan to use Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $ for energy efficient housing. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Climate grant recipient to start spending $2B as Trump's EPA tries to claw it back
“We have an obligation to fulfill” the grant agreement, Power Forward Communities CEO Tim Mayopoulos said in an interview with POLITICO.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If Trump levies tariffs on Canadian oil, it would raise gasoline prices across the Midwest while absolutely wrecking the economics of US oil refineries. (So it does seem unlikely.) I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/tru...
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Trump Is About to Wreck U.S. Oil Refineries
The American oil industry wasn’t built for Canadian tariffs.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live. All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly). The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC. It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.
five time series of global mean surface temperature changes starting low and noisy in the 1850s - rising clearly since the 1960s - and showing 2024 was clearly the warmest.
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Ric O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is too good #EnergySky
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Trump promised to overhaul Biden's energy and climate policies, and he wants to set up a new energy council to lead the charge. But that's already running into some ... issues. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Trump's plan for new energy council beset by infighting
The council that would steer the country toward "energy dominance" is facing questions about who would lead it and how wide its power would be.
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Matt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge boost for clean energy – and updating permitting rules is crucial to unlock its potential. But it comes with a price: an easier path for 'drill, baby, drill.' @politico.com’s Josh Siegel with the state of play: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...
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POLITICO Pro: Congress' permitting deal hangs in the balance after 'intense' meeting
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