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President Donald J. Trump boldly took action to protect the independence of the United States' energy, signing an executive order called “Protecting American energy from excessive harm to the state.” The action, announced on April 8, 2025, reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to unleashing the vast U.S. energy resources while driving what the White House calls “ideologically driven state intervention.” For those who have long watched the fight between federal energy priorities and the state-level climate agenda, this EO marks a seismic shift, a welcome turn. According to the White House fact sheet, the order targets “state laws and policies that…
[Editor’s note: President Trump signed an executive order today lifting many restrictions on coal plants] Internal Press Release Department Action will restore the role of the coal industry in driving the economy, protecting employment and strengthening national energy security 04/08/2025 The last edit was 04/08/2025 Date: April 8, 2025 Washington – The Interior Department is reaffirming its commitment to the Trump administration’s goals for U.S. energy domination and refocus on coal. Through the executive order of President Donald J. Trump, the ministry will position coal as the cornerstone of its national energy strategy by ensuring federally managed land remains open…
David Middleton Tips for Mrs. Middleton’s hat… Climate Ready: New York City's Evidence Shows Rapid Glacier Melting Causes Real-Time Effects Dani Beckstrom WABCFriday, March 28, 2025 New York City (WABC) – Not only in the movies; the ice on our planet melts faster than we think. This melting occurs not only in the Arctic and Antarctic. “From the relatively small glaciers we use to look at in the shapes, the Alps, the Rockies, the glaciers in Alaska, the Alps, the Rockies, the relatively small glaciers in Alaska,” said Robin Bell, a geophysicist and glacierologist. […] “There is a tidal gauge…
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to revitalize coal-fired power plants and the U.S. coal industry, a White House official said. [emphasis, links added] According to White House officials, the upcoming order will direct administration officials to reclassify coal into minerals under the terms of Executive Order 14241, which Trump signed in March to unlock and release the country's coal resources and take many other steps to promote the sick industry. In recent years, coal production and its use to generate electricity have been largely attributed in the United States in recent years to the active regulations and…
Eric Worrall's paper “…Thinking like thickening sea ice to prevent collapse…may have once seemed extreme. We passed the 1.5C climate threshold. We must now explore extreme options David KingMonday, April 7, 2025 19.00 Aest We have no luxury goods that reject solutions until we thoroughly investigate its risks, tradeoffs and feasibility As a lifelong scientist, I have always thought that if possible, we could find a way to achieve it. However, one of the worst reality we face now is that the world has failed to achieve its climate goals. Last year marked a historic and disturbing threshold: It was…
The Trump administration has raised logging quota by 25% in the U.S. national forests, part of increasing timber production when facing tariffs and preventing fires by removing fuel and causing fire-proof explosions. [emphasis, links added] this San Francisco Chronicles Report: Amid moves that could reshape California’s natural landscape, the USDA issued an emergency order on Friday to accelerate the harvest of nearly 113 million acres of national forest. The directive, announced by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, calls for a 25% increase in national timber quotas, with special focus on areas in California, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Los Padres and…
More than thirty years ago, Congress launched an initiative called the US Global Change Research Program [USGCRP]. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year to enhance the capacity of free climate scientists to spread the doom of climate change. [emphasis, links added] The government panel said its role is to provide a “scientific foundation for climate change to support informed decision-making across the United States.” This is done by producing five national climate assessment reports that are considered “the crown jewelry” of climate research. Although funding was obtained from at least ten separate government agencies, making the report seemed…
No one knows Paul Homewood H/T Hugh Sharman Major U.S. power grid operators are raising alarms about the looming capacity tightening. Power has a story: “Six major U.S. power grid operators have issued a unified alarm about the upcoming capacity tightening, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand (including from data centers, manufacturing and electrification) has caused pre-qualified errors and accelerated retirement and transmission constraints for generators’ retirement agencies. exist At a hearing of the Housing Energy and Business Subcommittee on March 25, Top U.S. power systems are under increasing pressure and the ability to maintain reliable power…
In the town of Morrovis in the heart of Puerto Rico, there is about 1,950 acres of green maze. The place is famous for its numerous caves, it preserves the stories of ancient Bim, rock art and petroglyphs, from paleobotany, unique fauna studies in the Caribbean, and many other stories about life and subsequent industrialization in Puerto Rico before Spanish colonization. These stories can be heard in one of the many tours offered by Cabachuelas Project of Cabachuelas Work Cooperative, a community co-operative founded in 2018 by residents of the town of Morrovis to preserve and manage the land found…
Transcript: Texas summers are very hot. But winter will get colder. When temperatures drop, millions of homes in the state rely on inefficient heating systems for strain residents’ wallets and power grids. Nadall: “Texas has had problems with extreme weather. During the winter storm Uri, they were unable to provide enough power and there were major power outages, a lot of freezing pipes, etc.” Steve Nadel is the U.S. Energy Saving Economics Council. His team analyzed how much money and energy can be saved if Texas homes currently use central AC and resistive heating next time they replace the system.…