I wrote this in July 2025 after the Big Beautiful Bill passed and gutted the Inflation Reduction Act. A year later we're seeing the results, as the AI boom converges with Trump's war on renewables + coal/gas boosterism: US fossil fuel spending now surpasses China's. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Senators Gallego and Schatz, Governors Shapiro and Healey, just to name a few www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/c...

Great thread by @davidfickling.bsky.social. And it's worth noting: the outlook for LNG demand in Asia was weaker than generally appreciated even *before* the Hormuz shutdown alerted importing countries to the huge risks of making their energy systems LNG-dependent. e360.yale.edu/features/tru...

Tapping the sign again 👇

I couldn't agree more: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Can't imagine why people are so mad at data centers, hmm... 🤔

JP Morgan underpants gnomes hard at work:

Dems in the southeast: why aren't you talking about the (climate-driven) home insurance affordability crisis? Smdh. Political malpractice.

Dems in the mountain west: why aren't you talking about the (climate-driven) megadrought crisis?

Dems in the northeast: why aren't you talking about the (climate-driven) tick-borne disease crisis?

Different grim climate indicator, similar shaped curve: reported tick bites are triple the average for this time of year

Worth noting: Justin Pearson cut his teeth fighting—successfully—an oil pipeline slated to cut through a key aquifer and Black neighborhoods in Memphis. His words close out the last chapter of my book GASLIGHT, about another pipeline fight: "Because we will never quit, we know we will win.”

"The amount of power consumed by US data centers is likely to more than double to 106 gigawatts in the decade through 2035, with natural gas set to play a key role" – @bloomberg.com

Natural Allies has been diligently wooing Democrats to embrace the gospel of gas for a while now. Their work is a lot easier today than it was 3 years ago, when I wrote about them in the final chapter of my book GASLIGHT. Back when methane's brand was "on the wane."

Quebec, Nova Scotia — shut down the (Cabot) Strait!! Denying these ships access to the Gulf (of St. Lawrence) is the only way to protect Vermont's syrupy leverage over the global economy.

This is a remarkable historical document. Trump spent hours "orbited by...recording artist Vanilla Ice...Dan Bongino...manosphere shepherd Joe Rogan. At one point, the Mortal Kombat theme song played as Mr. Rubio and the president leaned in to speak to each other." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Evidence piling up for another @70sbachchan.bsky.social line I couldn't quite fit in the essay: “Every country right now is saying 'we should have more strategic energy reserves, more homegrown energy, more electrification to insulate our economy against these shocks.” bsky.app/profile/jrfh...

I'm old enough to remember that just one year ago interior secretary Doug Burgum declared that world peace was the natural outcome of Trump's foreign and energy policy agendas. "We're literally going to stop war," he said.

Peace through Energy Dominance how it started vs. how it's going: Doug Burgum March 2025: Thanks to new US LNG export projects "we’re literally going to stop war.” Doug Burgum March 2026: War is great for US LNG export projects' sales to Asia: “They’re looking to diversify their energy supplies.”

hmm let's see how the "State of the Union could help the president shift the narrative" discourse is faring today

Another option if you're looking for something to do instead of watch SOTU tonight: check out the 2024 version of GASLIGHT a.co/d/0dh6PkhQ

Just this week the Trump administration has moved to: --boost production/use of glyphosate weedkillers (carcinogen) --ease caps on coal plant emissions of mercury (neurotoxin) --ignored legal deadline for ID'ing areas where people are breathing too much soot (asthma/dementia/heart disease trigger)

Late 1990s climate denier talking points resurfacing time is a flat circle etc

In 2023 I wrote about the "crash to come" in the US housing market for @nybooks.com, as insurers price in climate risk and home valuations drop: "It’s safe to predict that this economic crisis will turn into a political one." Here are two senators sounding worried. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

same. gave up wearing nightguards because i just chew them to pieces. sometimes when i wake up in the morning i recall this 2007 NYT piece that informed me i've been applying 250 pounds of pressure to my jaw all night. that number seems low tbh. www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/h...

Yeah, Dominion got a much friendlier response when it lobbied Trump 1.0 Interior officials for another big energy project. Maybe because that was a 600-mile fossil gas pipeline? Just spitballing... Gonna leave relevant section of my book on that subject here for the "leopards eating faces" file:

Need a resolution for 2026? Kierkegaard's got you: "Keep on walking" "I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it... Even if one were to walk for one's health and it were constantly one station ahead—I would still say: Walk!"

Useful summary of where things stand here from NYT, but hooboy... this glaring error jumped out at me before they fixed the headline. Emissions are still going up! Small detail that's, uh, somewhat important if you're trying to frame the climate story circa 2025. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You mean... let FERC rubber-stamp them? With a 99.5% approval rate? And tell opponents to go pound sand?