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FEMA has canceled all local emergency manager trainings due to the DHS shutdown — except for those related to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Here’s @jeva.bsky.social with the story:
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Scoop: I’ve learned the solar permitting thaw is real, according to documents I can exclusively report.
Contrary to what MAGAworld and beltway pundits want you to think,
It’s probably a maneuver for Trump to avoid losing in federal court.
Via @heatmap.news
#greensky #energysky #climatesky
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I’m joined by @gbrew24.bsky.social to discuss the new US-Israeli war on Iran, different scenarios for how it could unfold (10 days vs five weeks), and how the war has already changed the global energy calculus: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
The energy market is on edge. Iran was exporting almost its entire daily oil production in the last few weeks, IRGC-linked news outlets say the Strait of Hormuz is "effectively closed," Saudi says the Eastern Province was attakced, the US hit Iranian naval assets heatmap.news/energy/trump...
There’s a neat new network of fire researchers … back East: heatmap.news/adaptation/e...
Lunar Energy Raises $232 Million to Scale Virtual Power Plants
The startup — founded by the former head of Tesla Energy — is trying to solve a fundamental coordination problem on the grid.
By @kbrigham.bsky.social via @heatmap.news
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A bipartisan House group — including Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Don Bacon (R-NE) — have proposed bill text that curtails the president’s ability to yank permits from individual energy projects that have already been approved, @alexckaufman.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/politics/fre...
The Other Startup Promising 100 Hours of Cheap Energy Storage
Noon Energy just complete a successful demonstration of its reversible solid-oxide fuel cell.
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the grid by and large survived the storm — what issues we had were poles and wires, not load shedding — but now the grid has to face a week of very low temperatures, which means persistent high demand heatmap.news/energy/winte...
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
The DOE revealed today that it cancelled some $30 billion in loan guarantees for Biden-era clean energy projects and is "revising" another $53 billion worth. Those numbers include public cancellations from last year like Grain Belt, but the remainder is ????
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The U.S. oil takeover in Venezuela is bad for the planet, of course. But we don’t know exactly the ways in which it’ll be bad for *Venezuela* because the region is yet another blind spot for science in the Global South. heatmap.news/climate/vene...
Vineyard Wind is sounding the alarm that Trump's stop work order is getting in the way of its efforts to replace the defective blades that caused the 2024 broken blade fiasco, paradoxically creating new hazards.
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Zanskar Raises $115 Million to Propel Geothermal Discoveries
By @kbrigham.bsky.social via @heatmap.news
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![Burgum didn’t win the 2024 nomination, and he wasn’t — as some hoped — picked for vice president on the ticket, either. But he won control of Trump’s energy agenda. Today, Burgum not only runs the Interior Department, but also chairs the National Energy Dominance Council, an ad hoc body that oversees energy and environment policy.
He’s kept talking about freedom in his new role — and he connects liberty to the eternal human struggle to flourish. “Human flourishing in this world has always been dependent on affordable and reliable energy,” he told Stanford students last year.
Which is why I was astounded to see this post last week:
[a tweet from Burgum consisting of a map describing flight times between Anchorage, Washington DC, and Greenland's capital Nuuk, labeled "The New Interior"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv5oyzuuatuizbqifq6xcdcg/bafkreic6nkfsysqa5uy3aw6t3h6fyknjrxksofotg2harvncpn7t7llite)
Burgum didn’t win the 2024 nomination, and he wasn’t — as some hoped — picked for vice president on the ticket, either. But he won control of Trump’s energy agenda. Today, Burgum not only runs the Interior Department, but also chairs the National Energy Dominance Council, an ad hoc body that oversees energy and environment policy. He’s kept talking about freedom in his new role — and he connects liberty to the eternal human struggle to flourish. “Human flourishing in this world has always been dependent on affordable and reliable energy,” he told Stanford students last year. Which is why I was astounded to see this post last week: [a tweet from Burgum consisting of a map describing flight times between Anchorage, Washington DC, and Greenland's capital Nuuk, labeled "The New Interior"]
Now, Burgum is a light-hearted guy, and obviously, we’re meant to chuckle. It’s a joke. Alaska and Washington, D.C., are part of the “old interior,” but Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, is the “new interior” — future American territory. Burgum defended himself on Fox News last Thursday. “Who knew that posting a factual map of Alaska and Greenland would be triggering to those folks who do not fully understand the importance of Greenland and the strategic nature of protecting the United States of America?” he said. Burgum is wrong. His map was not factual: Greenland is not part of the American interior; it is part of Denmark. To describe it as the “interior” of America should humiliate Burgum’s liberty-loving soul. But what we can tell from this tweet is that Burgum is mentally preparing himself for a terrible betrayal of the values and ideas he once celebrated. What would that betrayal be? Nothing less than the open theft of Greenlanders’ most fundamental freedoms. On Fox, Burgum said that Trump wanted to “buy” Greenland — but this is such a twisting and abrasing of the truth as to make a patriot yelp. Trump desires Greenland by any means, and he is willing to use the military to bully Denmark and the Greenlandic people into selling their sovereignty. This is not friendly commerce between two equals, as a free market requires, but rather petty and corrupt gangsterism. Trump is shoving a gun in Denmark’s face, muttering, We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Burgum claims to see nothing wrong with this degeneracy.
![He should. Less than two years ago, Burgum praised the Constitution and “the historic and aspirational vision presented by our Founding Fathers.” That cohort’s insight — the reason we remember its members now, despite their flaws — was that the most fundamental political freedom is political self-determination. “All men are, by nature, equal and free,” wrote James Wilson, one of only six men to sign both the Declaration and the Constitution. “No one has a right to any authority over another without his consent: all lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it.”
Yet Burgum would help establish Trump’s authority over more than 55,000 Greenlanders without their consent and over their objections — a government that would reek of illegality from its birthpangs. And Burgum would be its midwife. The Office of Insular Affairs, which he oversees as part of the Interior Department, manages America’s territories and freely associated states, such as Puerto Rico and Palau. Greenland could soon fall under its purview, too. Burgum could easily become Greenland’s colonial governor, its federal subjugator.
All lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it. I have been to Greenland. It is an austere and beautiful country, home to a population of independent and freedom-loving people who want to prosper, raise their families, farm, hunt, thrive, and flourish. It should sound familiar: Greenlanders are not so far from Burgum’s old North Dakota constituents.
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He should. Less than two years ago, Burgum praised the Constitution and “the historic and aspirational vision presented by our Founding Fathers.” That cohort’s insight — the reason we remember its members now, despite their flaws — was that the most fundamental political freedom is political self-determination. “All men are, by nature, equal and free,” wrote James Wilson, one of only six men to sign both the Declaration and the Constitution. “No one has a right to any authority over another without his consent: all lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it.” Yet Burgum would help establish Trump’s authority over more than 55,000 Greenlanders without their consent and over their objections — a government that would reek of illegality from its birthpangs. And Burgum would be its midwife. The Office of Insular Affairs, which he oversees as part of the Interior Department, manages America’s territories and freely associated states, such as Puerto Rico and Palau. Greenland could soon fall under its purview, too. Burgum could easily become Greenland’s colonial governor, its federal subjugator. All lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it. I have been to Greenland. It is an austere and beautiful country, home to a population of independent and freedom-loving people who want to prosper, raise their families, farm, hunt, thrive, and flourish. It should sound familiar: Greenlanders are not so far from Burgum’s old North Dakota constituents. [quote continues, should be visible to OCR]
I wrote about US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who has spent his entire career praising liberty: heatmap.news/politics/dou...
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NEW: A federal judge has lifted Trump’s stop-work order for New York’s Empire Wind project, allowing construction to continue and dealing yet another legal blow to the president’s war on offshore wind
@jael.bsky.social reports:
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NOW ONLINE:
Heatmap’s 2026 Climate Insider Survey
This is our annual questionnaire of climate academics, business leaders, engineers, and former officials…
…answering some of the biggest open questions in the field.
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At least 25 data centers were canceled last year as communities organized and pushed back against them. That's four times as many as 2024, according to Heatmap News.
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Google is spending tens of billions of dollars a year on its data center buildout and its hiring some human capital too: some of America’s most prominent energy wonks heatmap.news/energy/googl...
100% this. The market for ever-more-expensive cars and trucks is showing signs of being tapped out, leaving a lane wide enough for affordable, reasonably-sized EVs to drive through - if manufacturers can deliver.
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It's not every day we get to welcome a totally new clean energy technology into commercial operation. Today on Shift Key, we talk with Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald about how the company brought online the first-ever closed-loop geothermal heat & power project this month in Germany! 🔌💡
My latest for @heatmap.news:
It’s now safe to say the “all-of-the-above” Republican Party is dead.
A new anti-renewables movement is gaining steam in Congress and could derail the chances of a comprehensive deal to change the federal permitting process. And they nearly sank it today.
New "foreign entity of concern" clean energy tax credit restrictions will kick in Jan 1, but the Trump admin has still not published guidance that was due in August, so nobody really knows yet what they'll need to do to adhere to them.
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This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. I wrote about the biggest change to global climate politics since its passage: The climate story *is* the China story now, and how countries pursue decarbonization is itself a wager on China’s future. heatmap.news/climate/pari...
New feature in @heatmap.news:
When the Energy Department gave out $800 million to GE-Hitachi and Holtec's reactors last week, I couldn't help but wonder: What happened to NuScale?
The company was once the leading SMR project.
But forerunners ≠ frontrunners.
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Out: bans on natural gas hookups or appliances
In: bans on central air conditioners that can't do heating
Once again, California is testing it out first.
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@heatmap.news and especially its podcast Shift Key w @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessejenkins.bsky.social. Catch up on basics w summer school episodes. And their guest list has been incredible.
New: Key Senate Democrats told @jael.bsky.social they want a permitting deal that supports transmission and clean energy, and that the current House proposal, the SPEED Act, "does not meet that standard."
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