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Trevor Higgins

@thiggins.bsky.social
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Energy & Environment at the Center for American Progress and @CAPAction. Adjunct at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. Alumnus of Senator Feinstein, Department of Energy. Personal account.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18/09/2026
We could call it the Inflation Reduction Act
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A child holds a handmade sign saying: TO DOLLY PARTON ALL 
THE BOOKS YOU GAVE ME MEANT SO MUCH TO ME. THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU!
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Retired Ohio school teacher Joni Watson was "dumbfounded" by the drastic increase in her electric bill this past year. Thanks to Trump's war in Iran and his administration's policies against clean energy projects, utility prices will continue to go up.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The high temperatures, dry soils, and windy weather fueling terrible wildfires in Europe were made twice as likely in France and 20x as likely in Spain by climate change. Now a once-per-six-year risk for central Spain. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Electricity prices are getting out of hand 📈 CAP's new plan would freeze or lower rates and save over $900 per household over 4 years. Learn how our plan works: www.americanprogress.org/article/fa…
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Lucero Marquez @lucerowx.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
People need immediate relief from rising electricity prices. @americanprogress.bsky.social has 3 policy proposals: 1. A rate relief fund, 2. A national AI data center fair share policy, and 3. A program to build a better, bigger power system Check it out: www.americanprogress.org/article/a-pl...
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A Plan for American Electricity Affordability
CAP’s plan is a combination of immediate relief and investment to lower electricity system costs and deliver more than $125 billion in residential consumer savings, or around $900 per household, over ...
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Jasia Smith @jasia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Offshore wind projects that were set to power over 1.3 million U.S. homes were traded for…zero added energy capacity, actually. 🤦🏽‍♀️ As Emily says in this article, “Americans’ side of the bargain appears to be worthless”. heatmap.news/energy/total...
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New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal
There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Trump administration's attack on electric vehicles has endangered the U.S. auto industry—failing both American workers and consumers. www.americanprogress.org/article/th…
An infographic titled "How did the Trump administration stall out the EV industry so fast?" Three points are listed with checkmarks: Frozen funds (unlawfully froze billions for EV chargers and battery mineral processing), Killed tax credits (canceled the $7,500 EV tax credit), and Lowered standards (gutted fuel economy rules). The graphic features a road at the bottom.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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How the spike in gas prices is jolting California's giant economy
The sharp rise in gas and diesel prices due to the Iran war is quickly rippling through the world's fourth-largest economy.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Supply shocks are inflationary. The article has examples of the current implications for air travel, freight, semiconductors, aluminum. The longer the war in Iran continues, the more it is likely to increase the price you pay. This profits the fossil fuel industry at everyone else’s expense.
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The War in Iran Will Raise Fuel Prices and Costs Throughout the Economy
The war in Iran will cost Americans more at the pump as well as on their utility and grocery bills while continuing to also cost U.S. military service members and civilians their lives.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Natural gas is about 80 percent of the cost of producing fertilizer, and you can see how fuel price fluctuations show up in in grocery prices:
A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in food prices, fertilizer prices, and natural gas prices since 2010.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Electricity rates are increasingly influenced by global natural gas prices, too:
A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in electricity prices and natural gas since 2010.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Check out the graphs showing the correlation between fuel prices internationally and domestically (thanks especially to increasing export infrastructure built in the last ten year). Here's the impact on gasoline prices since 2010:
A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in gasoline and crude oil since 2010.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our new piece breaks down how these price increases for oil and gas will flow through to the U.S. economy, raising the prices of gasoline, electricity, fertilizer, and more. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The War in Iran Will Raise Fuel Prices and Costs Throughout the Economy
The war in Iran will cost Americans more at the pump as well as on their utility and grocery bills while continuing to also cost U.S. military service members and civilians their lives.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This reckless war on Iran has raised energy prices like no other. It's outpacing even Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A line chart from the Center for American Progress shows that crude oil futures have increased 41 percent in the nine days since Operation Epic Fury began, which outpaces similar price increases following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and other recent conflicts.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
From Politico: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices
White House aides and Cabinet officials are coming under intense pressure to reverse the spike in energy prices caused by the start of the war in the Middle East.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Suzie Wiles needs some help thinking of ideas to lower gas prices. Any suggestions? How about: • Don't bomb Iran. • Restore fuel economy standards. • Offer rebates to people who want an EV but can't yet afford one.
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Climate Power @climatepower.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump's empty promise that AI data centers will lower electricity prices isn’t backed by reality. Americans support data centers powered by clean energy—not fossil fuels that risk even higher utility bills.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump and his family have already taken more than $2 billion for themselves since he was elected by selling the presidency. www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...
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Trump’s Take: Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn't believe." Fact check: true.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
When Trump says he likes the way this economy is running, it's because he likes making you pay coal and gas execs more money.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And his long-sought destruction of all vehicle efficiency standards is going to INCREASE gasoline prices for everyone.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Turns out that blocking clean energy is a bad plan. His policies are set to cut the amount of new energy that will be added over the next decade in HALF. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Is Crushing America’s Electricity System
More than half of all new capacity added to the grid over the next 10 years will be lost if federal clean energy investment is terminated, threatening a failure to meet U.S. energy demands, to raise e...
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump said he'd cut energy prices in half. Electricity is up 13 percent. What gives?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Trump’s EPA has gutted lifesaving environmental protections, including limits on harmful chemicals and toxic pollution produced by: -Gas and coal power plants -Oil and gas refineries -Petrochemical & chemical manufacturers -Pesticide manufacturers “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK Jr’s healthy America promise, report finds
Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicate
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Trump administration is putting Big Oil first once again with its plans to withdraw from the UNFCCC, the bedrock of all international climate cooperation—and Americans will pay the price.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Last night, the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—the foundational 1992 treaty that established the entire framework for international climate cooperation. This is unprecedented and dangerous.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today is the one year anniversary of one of California's deadliest wildfires. There's no denying climate change is fueling these deadly fires, which haven taken everything from survivors like Katie and Marco.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Roughly 1//3 of the families who would have switched to an EV in the coming decade will instead continue to drive on gasoline because of Trump's disastrous policies. The way we'll experience that: higher prices and worse selection. The best cars just won't be available in America.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
New York Times reports that "The focus on Venezuela intensified after late May, when Mr. Trump was upset about tough negotiations involving Chevron. Venezuela’s oil has been more central to Mr. Trump’s deliberations than previously reported."
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Now NYT is reporting that Trump had to let Chevron's claims expire in order to win the votes of some anti-Maduro members of Congress for passage of OBBBA. But Chevron wanted back in, and this was part of the deliberations in the White House about escalating attacks.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What do oil companies get out of war with Venezuela? It is cheaper to produce oil there, and companies are desperate for resources that will remain profitable to extract even as global EV sales start to crush oil prices. Chevron is the only one with rights to produce there...
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Link: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
americanprogress.org
The House Republican Plan To Increase Gas and Electricity Prices
Terminating almost all federal clean energy investments will increase electricity rates and raise the price of gasoline by between 25 cents and 37 cents per gallon, costing households more than $400 b...
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I can hardly believe that the Trump team's plans for fuel economy standards are so bad that — not only will car buyers have to pick from a market full of gas guzzlers — but so many more people will be buying so much more gas that prices will rise by more than $0.25 a gallon.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"rising home insurance premiums, driven higher by climate change, are cascading into the broader real estate market and eating into home values in the most disaster-prone areas."
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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
6 Senators defected in both March and November to empower Trump: Cortez Masto, Durbin, King, Fetterman, Hassan, Shaheen. 4 Senators defected in March but not November: Schumer, Schatz, Gillibrand, Peters. 2 Senators defected in November but not March: Kaine, Rosen.
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Lucero Marquez @lucerowx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social and @nrdc.org --> 65% of all U.S. electric and 59% of all U.S. natural gas utility costumers face increased or proposals for increased utility rates by 2027. Find out some reasons why in our new report: www.americanprogress.org/article/resi...
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Residents of 49 States and Washington, D.C., Face Increasing Electric and Natural Gas Bills
This updated utility rate tracker shows rate increases or proposals set to go into effect over the next two years that, coupled with Trump administration actions, could mean that households and busine...
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
By changing the names of public places, censoring historical exhibits, and reducing access to public areas, the Trump administration is erasing the multicultural and multiracial stories of the people who shaped this country. ampr.gs/48ILAhV
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The Trump Administration Is Erasing American History Told by Public Lands and Waters
Through a series of executive orders targeting place names, signage on, and access to public lands and waters, the Trump administration is erasing important chapters of American history.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here's a great map (if you love maps) of how the charging network has grown. The job is not yet done, but never forget that our country is capable of doing great things.
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See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy
There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.
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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
NEW: President Trump and RFK Jr. promised to “Make America Healthy Again” but the administration’s assault on environmental safeguards will expose kids and families to more cancer-causing pollution as RFK Jr. cuts cancer research and treatment: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution
The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 28/08/2025
Molly O'Toole: "On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 27/08/2025
This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.
Masked officers in camoMasked armed men watch a mother and her children go to school.
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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing. This is wildly illegal. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
NEWS: President Trump is federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department, which means he will control it for up to 30 days. He is also deploying the D.C. National Guard, all to fight what he says is an increase in crime.
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Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet @ordonezlancet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
140M+ Americans are under heat alerts this week. Our new report breaks down how climate change is supercharging this deadly heat, driving up bills, straining hospitals and power grids, and hitting working-class, Black, and brown communities hardest. www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...
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Climate Change Is Subjecting More Americans to Unbearable Extreme Heat
Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, driving up utility bills, straining ecosystems, and deepening inequality.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America. See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.
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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Is this abundance? This project was approved under FAST-41, meaning it had expedited permit approvals. It also had labor, domestic supply chain, power offtake agreements for communities attached to it... meaning a whole lot of high quality American jobs and affordable energy just went up in flames.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up."
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