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Bob King
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Wait, you mean electric vehicle sales aren't collapsing?
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Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. www.politico.com
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Bob King
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Wait, you mean electric vehicle sales aren't collapsing?
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Bob King
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Reasons people give for not prepping for hurricanes include: 1) Hurricane denial ("They don't come here anymore," "islands/sandbars will protect us") 2) Hurricane amnesia (forgetting the times they DID come here) 3) Hurricane fatigue ("we've been hit so many times I can't even respond anymore")
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And yes, I said oil and gas EXPORTS. As in, the United States makes so much (as the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas) that it is selling a lot of it to other countries. Contrary to what some people you may have heard have been implying.
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Beryl has already been the first Category 4 hurricane to form in the North Atlantic in June (in records dating back to 1851), and the earliest-ever Cat 5. Though now a tropical storm, it's expected to regain hurricane strength before hitting the Gulf Coast in the coming days.
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#HurricaneBeryl forecasts turning more worrisome for Texas: Corpus Christi, a major hub for oil and gas exports, is right now in the center of the predicted swath of the fiercest winds. People in Galveston, Houston and Louisiana should keep alert too. www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...
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"Call the police, he’s on drugs," the foreman said of the disoriented laborer. But Gabriel Infante was suffering from heatstroke in Texas' 100-degree weather.
He died hours later, at age 24.
No federal rules existed to help him.
By @arielwittenberg.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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OSHA typically moves slowly, but it's racing ahead with a rule to protect workers from dangerously hot weather. But Biden's rule could be in trouble if Trump wins. By @arielwittenberg.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Brendan Nyhan
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Real news in 2024. Not a drill. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Bob King
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An interesting question is why one side seems to be having so much trouble selling its vision to the voters.
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In contrast, the Trump administration was the one arguing that consumers should pay higher electricity prices to keep economically ailing coal plants running because "what's the cost of freedom?" www.politico.com/story/2017/1...
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This article is about the political situation in Europe, but it should be noted that in the U.S. the Democrats got this message on climate policy decades ago. Here, their message is ALL ABOUT climate action equaling jobs, new tech and lower costs for consumers.
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In truth, if reelected, Donald Trump would be unlikely to quit NATO outright. But that doesn’t mean the alliance would survive a second Trump term intact.
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And this time, pulling out of Paris might just be the start: Conservatives are also drafting an executive order "that could remove the US from the entire UN framework underpinning global climate talks, a step that could do lasting damage to the effort to limit the Earth’s warming."
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Ben Lefebvre
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Yeah we all knew this was going to happen. But still - scoop.
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Bob King
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For those keeping score at home, Trump is not the actual U.S. president.
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Trump haunts stalled global climate talks: Despite him not being president, "the specter of his return hung over two weeks of diplomatic negotiations in Bonn, where nearly 200 countries met for talks but got little accomplished," Zia Weise reports from Bonn.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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And if you can't pay the enormous daily fee for the prison time you didn't even serve, you're ineligible to work in certain occupations. (I'm guessing this also prevents you from regaining your right to vote.)
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Biden's fuel efficiency rules for SUVs and pickups are significantly less stringent than what DOT proposed a year ago. It's part of a recent pattern of rollbacks in green rules in DC, New York and elsewhere.
www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
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Bob King
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The results from writing Perl while on LSD would be much more interesting.
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Remembering the brilliant, talented and determined Susan Spencer-Wendel on the 10th anniversary of her death from ALS, a fight she chronicled in a best-selling book she mostly wrote on a phone with her thumb. Thinking of you and your family always, @SpenWen.
www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/a...
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And El Niño, which normally tamps down Atlantic hurricane formation, is going away: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...
So buckle up this summer.
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What's the big air safety problem you've been reading about since January?
The one that launched investigations, whistleblower complaints and media deep dives?
Starts with a B.
Congress is passing a 1,000-page aviation bill that doesn't try to fix it:
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Speaking of oil, in the past week we've seen:
⏩ FTC accuses oil exec of colluding w OPEC subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...
⏩ Congressman charged w taking bribes from Azerbaijan oil co. www.politico.com/live-updates...
⏩ Trump to oil execs: Gimme $1B www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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POLITICO: Oil execs writing executive orders they want @realDonaldTrump to sign www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
WaPo: Trump asked oil execs for $1 billion www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
POLITICO: "This is a scandal," but probably legal www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Bob King
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"Spoon feeding the administration": @bjlefebvre has the scoop on the oil industry's plans to hand Trump executive orders for him to sign if he returns to the White House"
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Oil lobbyists support @realDonaldTrump but worry he'd be too distracted, unfamiliar with details and surrounded by D-list appointees to do what they need. So they're preparing executive orders for him to sign, "spoon feeding the administration."
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Industries will "have to prop up a second Trump administration with expertise," writing executive orders for him to sign, one energy lawyer tells @bjlefebvre. That's because they don't trust @realDonaldTrump to know the policy or hire talented staff.
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Biden seems miffed that some people are giving Trump credit for building stuff:
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Couldn't be more proud to work with the reporting team behind this deep-dive look at Biden's massive attempt at a climate/energy/infrastructure legacy: Jessie Blaeser, Benjamin Storrow, Kelsey Tamborrino, Zack Colman and David Ferris
www.politico.com/interactives...
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And be sure to read ALL of @politico's coverage of Biden's Billions: www.politico.com/news/biden-f...
Stories include:
➡️The $200B+ energy loan program that has lent just $26B www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
➡️Biden's high-tech problem in Michigan www.politico.com/news/2024/02...
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Trump, of course, had his infamous series of "infrastructure weeks," proposed a $1.5T infrastructure bill (with basically no new federal money) that vanished in a GOP-led Congress, and held an infrastructure event that devolved into a defense of "many fine people on both sides."
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I already see heads exploding about this poll result: Biden, whose signed a huge infrastructure law that's paying for projects right now, has only a 3-point edge over Trump on who “has done more to promote infrastructure improvements and job creation.”
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And that's not all!
➡️4 takeaways from our reporting: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
➡️Many voters are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about whether this spending is making a difference, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Biden made his $1.6 trillion bet to transform America with four sweeping laws.
But less than 17% of the $1.1 trillion those laws provided for direct spending on climate, energy and infrastructure has been spent as of April, according to our analysis.
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Biden signed 4 signature laws to allot the $1.1 trillion for direct government spending: ➡️2021 American Rescue Plan (aka pandemic relief) ➡️2021 infrastructure law ➡️2022 CHIPS and Science Act ➡️2022 Inflation Reduction Act We tracked how the money is, or isn't, being spent 👇
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Joe Biden is betting that $1.6 trillion in climate and infrastructure money can transform America, create green jobs and outcompete China. But most of the funds remain unspent, six months before his rematch with Donald Trump.
A @politico.com deep dive: www.politico.com/interactives...
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"I could show you a light show/I could show you a light show/I could show you a light show/I could show you a storm"
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Also relevant: Much of the anti-Trump resistance from 2017-2021 is exhausted. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Also important to note that much of this list is stuff Trump didn't do, couldn't do (because rulings like Dobbs hadn't happened yet, courts blocked him, or his top aides were either trying to soften his agenda or pursuing their own things) or didn't even attempt the first time.
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Put another way: This election goes way beyond a clash of personalities. Two vastly different policy agendas are colliding in the choice between Biden and Trump. My @Politico colleagues will continue diving deep into what future each candidate is proposing to bring about.
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A 2nd Trump term could bring abortion bans in red & blue states, shredding of federal climate science, wider trade wars, crackdowns on "woke" school policies, military attacks inside Mexico and free rein for crypto -- and much more, supporters & foes say. www.politico.com/news/2024/02...
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Big picture: The U.S. has become an energy superpower in the past two decades — world's largest oil producer, biggest natural gas exporter, also ramping up with increasing supplies of wind and solar power. The standard political rhetoric surrounding energy hasn't quite caught up to that reality.
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Other fun talking points in this debate: GOP: This 15-month freeze on new gas export permits (which will still allow export capacity to DOUBLE by 2028) is a "ban." Biden folks: No, it's not a ban. It's a pause while we study the impact on prices & climate change. Greens: We HOPE it will be a ban!
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The partisan fight over Biden's freeze on natural gas export permits enters Bizarro World: Democrats say "Yay!" for lower domestic fuel prices, while one top Republican warns it will cause asthma attacks in Nancy Pelosi's city. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/arti...
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Passenger etiquette on DC's Metro system leafs a lot to be desired.
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Zia Weise
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The war in Gaza crashed into this year’s United Nations climate talks on Friday, with global warming taking a backseat as Iran walked out and leaders held urgent discussions on the conflict.
Our wrap story from Day 2 of COP28: www.politico.eu/article/isra...
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Zack Colman
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You can read all this on our COP28 page, and follow/send tips/well-wishes and coffee to the @politico.com team in Dubai — myself, @ziaweise.bsky.social @bkingdc.bsky.social , Karl, Charlie and Sara will all be on the ground.
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Former refugee Dilan Yeşilgöz is now leading the polls ahead of tomorrow's election in the Netherlands and could become the first female PM in Dutch history.
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@politico.com has you covered on all things #COP28. A 🧵 with stories by our great team of reporters - Sara Schonhardt, Karl Mathiesen @ziaweise.bsky.social , Charlie Cooper, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social, @benlefebvre.bsky.social, edited by human battery @bkingdc.bsky.social
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But when you look at these numbers, it reinforces the idea that time is not on our side when it comes to a changing climate. Aside from the human loss and suffering, climate change is already costing us trillions.
www.politico.eu/article/cop2...
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