DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was meant to
be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

🔔 Check out @canarymedia.com’s “Chart of the week” column by @danmccarthy.bsky.social featuring our newest Siting Solutions Project legislative insight report co-authored by Nelson Falkenburg.

📍Click on the link to read the full column

California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social

Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits.

It’s the only tactic that appears to work against the Trump administration’s crusades.

Now, the Danish are giving it a go.

My latest on the Revolution Wind saga:

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

When you cover a field in solar panels, you don’t cover everything. And in a warming world, that leftover shaded space is invaluable, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work.

When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet.

This time, they spoke to me.👇

NEW: Trump's DOE has re-upped an emergency order forcing an oil and gas power plant to stay online, one week after renewing a similar directive for a coal plant.

It's the latest signal that Trump is committed to blocking all fossil-fueled power plants closures.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

And despite it all… solar plants are still be built at record speed in America.

For now.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

My story about Revolution Wind dropped. Trump just halted construction of the offshore wind farm due to "national security."

NEW: Navy, Army Corps, and Coast Guard raised "no major military issues" during a 2009-2015 federal task force that sited Rev Wind where it's now being built, says insider.

DOI's "capacity density" metric uses fossil fuel cheerleaders' talking points to erect more barriers to solar and wind. Critics say it's an "absurd metric" and "red herring." @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/lan...

The Trump admin is forcing a Michigan coal plant slated to close this year to keep running through November. Critics say it's part of a broader plan to use emergency powers to keep dirty and expensive fossil fuel power plants running, no matter the cost
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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💴 “‘Come to America and lose a billion dollars’ should be the headline of your article.”

👇 my latest

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Webinar alert! Join @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ for a conversation on renewables’ rise — and challenges — with Canary’s @alisontakemura.bsky.social‬ on Aug. 27:

UPDATE:

🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.

😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

Join @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ and @alisontakemura.bsky.social‬ on Aug. 27 for a live online discussion of how solar and wind power became mainstream — and how to overcome the headwinds threatening their progress with @Sundayofaction.bsky.social:

The Trump administration has terminated Solar for All. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims the “big beautiful bill” authorizes clawback of $7B in contracted funds — a claim that Sen. Moore Capito (R) has called "ridiculous." Cue the court challenges: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky

This chart.

Damn.

And I've heard not a peep from the GOP lawmakers who went to all those ribbon cutting ceremonies at the factories.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

(chart by @danmccarthy.bsky.social)

Very cool: @motherjones.com has republished the scoop in my newsletter yesterday about the a top regulator resigning from the NRC.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My new column for @canarymedia.com kinda sums up what I’ve learned over 20 years of climate reporting. It’s about what the transformation of the (fucked up but improving) energy sector can teach us about the (fucked up and not improving) food/ag/land sector. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

A new investigation by @kmkowalski.bsky.social and @canarymedia.com, with documents obtained by Fieldnotes, reveals a coordinated effort by oil lobbyists to write and introduce carbon capture and storage legislation. www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

REAP has been an economic lifeline for U.S. farmers for two decades, helping them save on energy and make money from solar.

The Trump administration has thrown the program into chaos — including by abruptly canceling a planned application window on July 1.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Energy experts say DOE's report claiming 100x increase in blackout risk by 2030 dramatically undercounts the new energy — clean and dirty — that can be added to the grid by then. Why? to back Trump's push to force fossil fuel power plants to stay open:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
#energysky

Last week, the Department of Energy issued a report that energy analysts agree is designed to push Trump's pro-coal agenda — and which experts say relies on dubious math to reach its conclusions.

@jeffstjohn.bsky.social has the details:

www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

This year, $2.2 trillion will be invested in clean energy, efficiency, and electrification globally, double the $1.1 trillion that will flow toward fossil fuels.

It's a remarkable change from a decade ago, but still not enough, @danmccarthy.bsky.social writes:

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...