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The Energy Department’s Possibly Illegal Move to Fund a Fossil-Fired Steel Furnace
https://heatmap.news/politics/doe-grant-review-cleveland-cliffs
Published: May 16, 2025 19:09
The Department of Energy announced on Thursday that it’s reviewing some 179 awards made by the Biden administration worth $15 billion to ensure they were “consistent with Federal law and this Administration’s policies and priorities.”But what happens when…
Republicans Waver Over Cost, Energy Ahead of Budget Vote
https://heatmap.news/climate/budget-energy-republicans-climeworks
Published: May 16, 2025 12:06
Current conditions: It’s peak storm season in the U.S., with severe weather in the forecast for at least the next six days in the Midwest and East • San Antonio, Texas, is expected to hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit today • Monsoon rains have begun in Sri…
How the GOP Tax Bill Would Supercharge Renewable Energy NIMBYs
Published: May 15, 2025 22:18
This week I chatted with Jillian Blanchard, vice president of climate change and environmental justice with Lawyers for Good Government, an organization that has been supporting beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act navigate the uncertainties…
Is Wall Street Wrong About the IRA?
https://heatmap.news/economy/wall-street-ira-budget
Published: May 15, 2025 22:09
Is Wall Street too sanguine about the House of Representatives’ proposal to gut the Inflation Reduction Act? When the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled its language on the law on Monday — phasing out tax credits, implementing strict restrictions on…
It’s Hard Out Here for a Tiny Solar Farm in Upstate New York
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/hotspots/delaware-river-solar-madrid
Published: May 15, 2025 21:58
1. St. Lawrence County, New York – It’s hard out here for a 2-megawatt solar project in upstate New York.A Delaware River Solar project proposed in the town of Madrid is sparking fire concerns, with county officials now supposedly seeking guidance from the…
Offshore Wind Opponents Zero in on Their Next Two Targets
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/trump-burgum-sunrise-wind-revolution-wind-orsted
Published: May 15, 2025 21:50
The sharks of opposition are circling the American offshore wind industry, as they await the federal government’s next victims. This week, we received news that Equinor – developer of the Empire Wind project – is inching towards potentially canceling…
Why Everyone Will Miss Energy Star — Even Trump — According to One of Its Architects
https://heatmap.news/energy/energy-star-interview
Published: May 15, 2025 17:03
Last fall, my colleagues and I at Heatmap put together a comprehensive (and award-winning!) guide on how to Decarbonize Your Life. Though it contained information on everything from shopping for an EV to which fake meats are actually good, as my colleague…
EPA Rescinds PFAS Protections in the Name of ‘Flexibility’
https://heatmap.news/pfas-zeldin-epa-china-solar
Published: May 15, 2025 11:46
Current conditions: Today marks the start of the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season, and meteorologists are monitoring two potential areas of tropical development • Millions in the Great Plains and Eastern U.S. face risks of thunderstorms, large hail, and…
The Unsung Hero of the Clean Energy Economy Is Now on the Chopping Block
https://heatmap.news/politics/gop-budget-transferability
Published: May 14, 2025 14:43
One of the most powerful innovations in the Inflation Reduction Act was a new vehicle to finance clean energy projects. In addition to expanding the nation’s tax credits for climate-friendly projects, Congress gave developers freedom to sell these credits…
Saudi Arabia Deal Includes New Aramco Investments in U.S.
https://heatmap.news/climate/trump-aramco-ira-tax-credits
Published: May 14, 2025 11:54
Current conditions: Highs in Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin could break 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday afternoon, with ERCOT anticipating demand could approach August 2023’s all-time high of 85,500 megawatts • Governor Tim Walz has called in the…
Why Undoing the IRA Could Set Up a Gas-Fueled Power Price Shock
https://heatmap.news/energy/electricity-prices-inflation
Published: May 14, 2025 10:04
The Trump administration’s policy of increased natural gas exports abroad, plus increased industrial and artificial intelligence investment at home, plus cuts to green energy tax credits could add up to more energy price volatility for Americans.On Monday,…
How a House GOP Proposal Would Essentially Gut the IRA’s Biggest Tax Credits
https://heatmap.news/politics/house-gop-budget
Published: May 13, 2025 21:25
On Monday, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee released the first draft of its rewrite of America’s clean energy tax credits. The proposal might look, at first, like a cautious paring back of the tax credits. But the proposal amounts to a…
Congress Could Break Tesla’s Revenue Model
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/house-budget-tesla-revenue
Published: May 13, 2025 11:47
It’s shaping up to be a very bad week for Tesla. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s draft budget proposal released Sunday night axes two of the primary avenues by which the electric vehicle giant earns regulatory credits. Congress also appears…
GOP Budgets Propose Biggest Blows Yet to the IRA
https://heatmap.news/climate/gop-budget-ira-clean-energy
Published: May 13, 2025 11:40
Current conditions: Eighty of Minnesota’s 87 counties had red flag warnings on Monday, with conditions expected to remain dry and hot through Tuesday • 15 states in the South and Midwest will experience “extreme” humidity this week • It will be 99 degrees…
Shift Key Special Edition: The Fight Over the Inflation Reduction Act Has Arrived
https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-s2-e39-ways-and-means
Published: May 13, 2025 09:10
The fight over the Inflation Reduction Act has arrived. After months of discussion, the Republican majority in the House is now beginning to write, review, and argue about its plans to transform the climate law’s energy tax provisions. We wanted to…
The House GOP Tax Proposal Would Effectively Kill The IRA
https://heatmap.news/politics/ways-and-means-budget
Published: May 12, 2025 20:48
The House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax policy, released its initial proposal to overhaul the nation’s clean energy tax credits on Monday afternoon. These are separate and in addition to the extensive cuts to Inflation Reduction Act grant…
House Republicans Plan Big Cuts to the IRA’s Clean Energy Grants
https://heatmap.news/politics/house-energy-commerce-budget
Published: May 12, 2025 17:02
Republicans on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce unveiled their draft budget proposal Sunday night, which features widespread cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act and other clean energy and environment programs. The legislative language is part…
The Real Problem With ‘Climate Realism’
https://heatmap.news/ideas/climate-realism-initiative
Published: May 12, 2025 14:55
Let’s start with two basic facts.First, the climate crisis is here now, killing people, devastating communities, and destroying infrastructure in Los Angeles and Asheville and Spain and Pakistan and China. And it will get worse.Second, Donald Trump is the…
U.S., China Agree to Lower Tariffs
https://heatmap.news/climate/trade-deal-tariffs-catl
Published: May 12, 2025 12:11
Current conditions: The high will be 88 degrees Fahrenheit in the Twin Cities today after Minneapolis-Saint Paul hit 90 on Sunday, breaking the 125-year daily record • Localized flooding is expected in the Florida Panhandle due to a slow-moving atmospheric…
Why Air Products Investors Revolted Against Clean Hydrogen
https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/air-products-clean-hydrogen
Published: May 9, 2025 21:10
After a proxy fight, a successful shareholder revolt, and the ousting of a CEO, Air Products, the largest hydrogen company in the world, is floundering. In early May, it posted a $1.7 billion net loss for the second quarter of the fiscal year. While Air…
Don’t Look Now, But China Is Importing Less Coal
https://heatmap.news/sparks/china-coal-imports-april
Published: May 9, 2025 18:48
Exactly where China is in its energy transition remains somewhat fuzzy. Has the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases already hit peak emissions? Will it in 2025? That remains to be seen. But its import data for this year suggests an economy that’s…
The Little Kid In Me Is Psyched for Electric Bulldozers
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/electric-bulldozers
Published: May 9, 2025 16:58
Construction is a dirty business, literally and figuratively. Mud and gunk and tar come with the territory for those who erect buildings and pave roads for a living. And the industrial machines that provide the muscle for the task run on hulking diesel…
Senators Curtis and Hickenlooper on Why the IRA Will Survive
https://heatmap.news/politics/senators-curtis-hickenlooper-inflation-reduction-act
Published: May 9, 2025 16:01
Will Republicans’ reconciliation bill successfully gut the Inflation Reduction Act? A Democratic and Republican senator speaking last week at Heatmap’s Energy Entrepreneurship 2025 event predicted that it will not. A proposal effectively killing the IRA…
FEMA Replaces Administrator 23 Days Out From Hurricane Season
https://heatmap.news/rewiring-america-fema-hurricanes
Published: May 9, 2025 11:44
Current conditions: It’s heating up in the West, where temperatures could hit triple digits in parts of California’s Central Valley today • Despite a soggy start to Friday in the Northeast, conditions will clear up in time for a warm and sunny Mother’s Day…
Rewiring America Slashes Staff Due to Trump Funding Freeze
https://heatmap.news/sparks/rewiring-america-layoffs
Published: May 8, 2025 22:27
The Trump administration’s funding freeze has hit the leading electrification nonprofit Rewiring America, which announced Thursday that it will be cutting its workforce by 28%, or 36 employees. In a letter to the team, the organization’s cofounder and CEO…
The National Park Service is Fighting a Solar Farm
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/geenex-solar-mammoth-cave-national-park
Published: May 8, 2025 21:49
A national park is fighting a large-scale solar farm over potential impacts to an endangered shrimp – what appears to be the first real instance of a federal entity fighting a solar project under the Trump administration. At issue is Geenex Solar’s…
Ben Carson vs. the Anti-Solar Movement
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/hotspots/ben-carson-maryland-solar-farm
Published: May 8, 2025 21:49
1. Dukes County, Massachusetts – The Supreme Court for the second time declined to take up a legal challenge to the Vineyard Wind offshore project, indicating that anti-wind activists' efforts to go directly to the high court have run aground. The more…
Meet the Avatar Fan Fighting for Offshore Wind
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/qa/george-povall-all-our-energy
Published: May 8, 2025 21:45
Today’s chat is with George Povall, director of the All Our Energy pro-offshore wind environmental group. Povall – who told me he was inspired to be an environmentalist by the film Avatar – has for more than a decade been a key organizer on the ground in…
Sunrun Tells Investors That a Recession Could Be Just Fine, Actually
https://heatmap.news/sparks/sunrun-recession-tariffs
Published: May 8, 2025 17:22
The residential solar company Sunrun is, like much of the rest of the clean energy business, getting hit by tariffs. The company told investors in its first quarter earnings report Tuesday that about half its supply of solar modules comes from overseas,…
Global Solar Market Expected to Slow in 2025
https://heatmap.news/solar-growth-orsted-hornsea-4
Published: May 8, 2025 11:58
Current conditions: The first cicada broods have begun to emerge in the Southeast as soil temperatures hit 64 degrees Fahrenheit • Hail and even snow are possible across parts of Spain today • Forecasters have identified a risk zone for tropical storm…
A Literal 11th-Hour Budget Amendment Would Privatize 11,000 Acres of Public Land
https://heatmap.news/politics/house-natural-resources-public-lands
Published: May 7, 2025 18:57
Late last week, the House Committee on Natural Resources released the draft text of its portion of the Republicans’ budget package. While the bill included mandates to open oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, increase logging…
A New Green Hydrogen Partnership? In This Economy?
https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/ecolectro-hydrogen-manufacturing
Published: May 7, 2025 13:15
By all outward appearances, the green hydrogen industry is in a state of arrested development. The hype cycle of project announcements stemming from Biden-era policies crashed after those policies took too long to implement. A number of high profile clean…
Coal Overlooked as a Methane Emitter, IEA Says
https://heatmap.news/climate/coal-methane-energy-star
Published: May 7, 2025 12:02
Current conditions: Storms continue to roll through North Texas today, where a home caught fire from a lightning strike earlier this week • Warm, dry days ahead may hinder hotshot crews’ attempts to contain the 1,500-acre Sawlog fire, burning about 40…
Spain’s Blackout and the Miracle of the Modern Power Grid
https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-s2-e38-spain-blackout
Published: May 7, 2025 09:10
Last week, more than 50 million people across mainland Spain and Portugal suffered a blackout that lasted more than 10 hours and shuttered stores, halted trains, and dealt more than $1 billion in economic damage. At least eight deaths have been attributed…
Constellation’s CEO Opts Out of Load Growth Mania
https://heatmap.news/energy/constellation-data-center-demand
Published: May 6, 2025 19:21
Just how big is the data center boom, really? How much is electricity demand going to expand over the coming decades? Business plans, government policy, and alarming environmental forecasts are all based on the idea that we’re on an unrelenting ride…
17 States Sue Over Wind Pause
https://heatmap.news/climate/wind-lawsuit-eu-russia-gas
Published: May 6, 2025 12:19
Current conditions: A state of emergency is in effect in Manitoba, Canada, due to multiple wildfires • 17 million people in the south-central U.S. are at risk of severe storms on Tuesday • The Interior Department has reportedly suspended air quality…
Permitting Reform Is Back — and Buried in Trump’s Tax Bill
https://heatmap.news/energy/permitting-reform-trump-tax-bill-nepa
Published: May 6, 2025 09:55
A powerful House Republican committee has proposed shaking up one of the country’s key permitting laws as part of the ongoing process to write President Trump’s tax bill. A new bill, drafted by the House Natural Resources Committee would transform the…