I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

Don’t think the discourse has caught up yet to the fact that since the reconciliation bill passed on July 4, the Trump admin has moved quickly to smother the wind and solar industries. The pace and intensity of anti-renewable policy has intensified *significantly* post-OBBBA.

Wow. 12 GWs of natural gas plants have unplanned outages in Texas right now, more than twice the amount the grid is supposed to be able to handle. Batteries keeping the lights on as we speak.

Great piece by Matthew Yglesias today on “Avoiding a data center electricity price apocalypse” open.substack.com/pub/matthewygl…

Thanks for admitting climate change is real. Now stop turning clean energy into a culture war while gutting private-sector solutions to the very challenge you just named. Clean energy isn’t partisan. Innovative solutions—not political theater—are how we overcome challenges.

Just a casual few blocks from where I live in case you’re wondering how my DC neighborhood feels about our new Big Brothers

Can we make DC safe again?

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions. nytimes.com/2025/08/27/opi…

If we wrapped the entire planet in solar, we would produce more power in one HOUR than the world consumes in a YEAR. It's not either/or... its both/and.

Since this was posted, more solar energy has reached Earth than has been consumed in the history of civilization. Why is this Administration hindering our planet’s most abundant energy source?

What’s gas worth when valves freeze? What’s nuclear worth when cooling water is too hot or too low? What’s hydro worth in a drought? Every source of generation is weather-dependent. Some sources are contributing to fewer weather-related outages. Others are exacerbating them.

Fact check: when thermal ramps down for renewables, your electricity prices go down. The Secretary is saying that given the choice between free fuel and expensive fuel, the grid should choose expensive fuel. Why is that?

Exhibit A in the War on (Clean) Energy. Fueled by Intermittent Energy Derangement Syndrome. Amplified by political language designed to make lies sound truthful.

Regularly scaring people and exhibiting Intermittent Energy Derangement Syndrome while dismissing clean energy’s value to the grid is a failing model. But i agree energy dominance is about taking the conversation back to common sense, not fear mongering.

This is many things. Normal is not one of them.

I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on nearly every political issue — but he was a child of God. He was our sibling. Our brother. A human being endowed with infinite worth. Political violence has no place in America.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Huge strain on economy. “It’s hard to see utility bills coming down in this decade,” said Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, a power sector consulting firm. Electricity bills in states with the most data centers are surging cnbc.com/2025/11/14/dat…

Talk about a rebrand that wastes taxpayer dollars just to advance a stupid culture war against clean energy nrel.gov/news/detail/pr…'

“While the solar industry values the continued bipartisan engagement on permitting reform, the SPEED Act, as passed out of committee, falls short of addressing this core problem: the ongoing permitting moratorium”--Abby Hopper