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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Finally, a commentary on Puerto Rico’s grid reliability issues during a Super Bowl Halftime special.

Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At the close of a touching PBS News Hour feature on a Native American photographer who has sought to capture the impact of blood quantum on Native lives in her work, moderator Geoff Bennett appeared to say, “I guess I’m not getting this casino money” on a hot mic. @pbsnews.org

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Dear new parents: Fantastic Four: First Steps will destroy you. Bring tissues. Or just wipe your face with Wet Ones.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Triggering flashbacks of covering the slow-motion unraveling of Scott Pruitt’s brief tenure as EPA administrator.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In which Bezalel Smotrich says the quiet part out loud: The chief goal of the war is not to return Israeli hostages to their families; it’s to annex the Gaza Strip and permanently remove Palestinians from their land. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Israeli minister says returning hostages not ‘the most important goal’

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should conquer and reoccupy the Gaza Strip for “total victory” against Hamas.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It is shocking how difficult it is as a lone father to find a place to change your baby at Moynihan Station. Ended up changing my son in a booth at the Food Hall, which seems like not the outcome anyone wants. It is the year of our Lord 2025, @amtrak.com, @mta.info

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career” — Trump’s energy and trade policy undermines the US oil and gas industry that he aims to bolster, executives say in the latest Dallas Fed Survey. From my colleague Bill Holland. www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Slams work laptop shut until August. My second stretch of parental leave starts just in time for baseball season. See you just before Bills preseason, folks.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Boston partners with Eversource Energy and National Grid on a $150M program to install 5,000 electric heat pumps and weatherize 10,000 buildings over the next three years, via my colleague Noah Schwartz at @spci.bsky.social. Read more here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

California's Future of Gas proceeding is entering a major new phase: Determining near-term steps to facilitate a managed transition away from natural gas use, including by requiring gas utilities to consider non-pipeline alternatives to fossil fuel projects. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A US district court upheld NYC's gas ban for new buildings, the 1st major decision since a US appeals court knocked down Berkeley's ban in 2023. Here's what this could mean for the many legal challenges to US building decarb policy that followed the Berkeley ruling: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

For anyone who wants a helpful framework for how to think about and process the competing economic visions within the Trump admin — especially as it applies to tariffs — I found this conversation with FT columnist Gillian Tett very useful. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/14/2025 · 1h 1m

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hey hey! 11 years ago today, this fresh-faced reporter with baby duck hair was about to board a plane to visit his sister in China.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

ICYMI: All of the scenario planning conducted to inform New Jersey's next Energy Master Plan found that natural gas demand will plunge more than 70% by 2050 as the state pursues its climate goals. Meanwhile, electricity demand will roughly double. Read here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

No Deal: President Trump & NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ended today's WH meeting without an energy bargain - but will keep talking about trading Hochul's support for the defunct Constitution Pipeline project for Trump's backing of NYC congestion pricing & other items. More: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Freshman Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, will chair the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, the subcommittee with oversight of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and that typically has a hand in crafting periodic pipeline safety bills.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Perhaps the least believable thing in Captain America: Brave New World is that the top priority in the president’s first 100 days agenda is a foreign policy issue.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Puget Sound Energy will partner with Modern Hydrogen to help large gas utility customers deploy on-site hydrogen production & carbon capture and utilization tech. The goal is to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, which face tough Washington emission limits. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Regulators in climate-focused states are mulling the idea of retiring parts of gas utility systems. Last week, NY's regulator directed 2 gas utilities to explore decarbonization strategies like building electrification rather than replace leak-prone pipe. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Reversal of Biden's building electrification initiatives. Tax credits for RNG. A lighter-touch on methane leak detection rules. Permitting reform that limits pipeline project challenges. With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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Abbie Bennett @abbiebennett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

TVA, Bechtel partner on initial planning for a small modular nuclear reactor in Tennessee that could be the nation's first utility-scale SMR. 🔌💡 www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

And now that the baby is fed just before my 5:15am alarm goes off, it’s off to get an early start on writing up some gas transition regulation in New York and Colorado.

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One of my 1st stories of the 2nd Trump admin: The handoff from Biden augurs a sharp pivot from 4 years of federal support for the building electrification movement and an energy efficiency campaign that fueled a culture war over gas stoves and other appliances. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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Tom DiChristopher @tdichristopher.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

New boss, pictured here, has approved my return to work after 6 weeks away from the downstream fuels and clean heat beat. Dispatches on federal, state and local building decarbonization, low-carbon fuel and geothermal policy coming at you soon. Go Bills.

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