Corbin Hiar
@corbinhiar
Climate and business reporter at POLITICO's E&E News. Also a dad, cyclist, union steward and lapsed Minnesotan. Email: chiar@eenews.net | Signal: CorbinHiar.80
Shot: www.eenews.net/articles/gop... Chaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR3...
Super excited to announce that @karlmathiesen.bsky.social and I won an award from @spj-posts.bsky.social for our coverage of solar geoengineering. www.spj.org/sdx25/#print... The judges said we had “important impact and compelling writing with each story.” youtu.be/793dRna5st4?...
🇬🇧 Chuffed to bits to be named a finalist for the Steve Connor Award for investigative science journalism. The winner will be announced June 24 🤞 Here's what the @absw.bsky.social judges said about our story. www.absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...
The full announcement from Banerjee. A terrible loss for NPR and the nation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
🛢️ Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub predicts that the "hangover effect" of the war in Iran "is going to cause [oil] shortages, and probably starting by mid-next year." She also told CNBC that "oil prices are a bit suppressed now" and said that they would likely rise "by mid-summer."
Investor asks Berkshire Hathaway leaders how and when the company will offer insurance to ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz. "It depends on the price," vice chairman Ajit Jain responded.
Honored to have been named a finalist for the climate change reporting prize of the @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, along with the great @karlmathiesen.bsky.social. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
Wild to see @tamarakeithnpr.bsky.social describe in detail how rambling Trump's unscripted speeches can be. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...
In Trump's second term, he has approved just 23 percent of blue-state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states. There has never been such a sharp partisan disparity in the approval of federal disaster funds since FEMA was created in 1979. www.eenews.net/articles/its...
Lots of E&E News greats are walking out the door today. A true tragedy.
The most-read story on POLITICO right now is from @timothycama.bsky.social and yours truly. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
When you're watching a series at night to unwind and it *really* starts to feel like your day job.
"A clear message." Climate conference press event cancelled because of a climate-related flooding subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
NEW: Sequoia Capital and other top venture capital firms are backing startups developing risky tech to cool the planet — with unknown side effects. “These are trillion-dollar market opportunities,” one VC said. www.eenews.net/articles/betting-on-climate-failure-these-investors-could-earn-billions/
Describing an attraction that's outside the beltway as in Washington, D.C., seems like deceptive advertising. (Relatedly, it's a stretch to call Washington Dulles International Airport a Washington airport.)
The idea that Bowdoin College is one of many schools that have become "feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy" because it offers a degree in Africana studies is belied by the data. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u... Nearly all of the top major at Bowdoin are related to finance or science.
I live in Ward 4, Pinto represents Ward 2, but this showed up in my mailbox. When a DC council member sends mailers to residents who aren't her constituents... she's definitely eyeing higher office.
The artificial intelligence hype cycle is off the charts. Literally. AI deals now account for a record 63 percent of all venture capital investments in the past year, according to data compiled by PitchBook. pitchbook.com/news/article...
Washington's professional men's soccer team, which had been unbeaten under a new coach, faced off against one of the greatest players of all time... And the Washington Post gave the match a three-paragraph write up.
We found that the Trump-backed crypto company disclosed risks from climate-related disasters, contradicting the president's efforts to downplay concerns about rising temperatures. www.eenews.net/articles/don... The piece also included another wildly informative chart my colleague Paroma.
I was about to recycle this. But taking a page from @fahrenthold.bsky.social, here was the first draft of the graphic Paroma Soni made for my story about the Trumps and American Bitcoin. The connections between these companies were so complex that I really needed a visual aid to understand them.