Great Smoky Mts NP's forest centerpiece is recovering, but not out of the woods as climate change bears down. Guests say southern Appalachia's spruce-firs forest "looks like Canada," but Dave G. Anderson's John Caveny says they may be gone in a "blink". subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Media outlets use his company's measurements to denounce EVs, but he thinks they're a great idea. Emissions Analytics CEO Nick Molden yells "full steam ahead" on decarbonization, but says "we need to be cognizant of the side effects," like "tire emissions." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s spruce and fir forests are rebounding from overlogging and acid rain but may be no match for higher temperatures trib.al/kx9nVKD

Biden's strategy for modern passenger rail? Grant $66 B to American rail, focusing on shorter-distance corridors that were historically under-funded. "We've never seen that," Alan Fisher tells me. eenews.net/articles/why-b…

As a new EPA rule pushes trucking further from diesel, Michael D Roeth says "Don't bet against battery." But Arjun Thangaraj Ramshankar tells me "electrifying trucks poses a much bigger challenge" than EV cars. I examine 3 techs that can support truck electrification. eenews.net/articles/3-way…

Dengue fever infected more people in the Americas in the last 3 months than all of 2023 -- which was the previous worst year on record. If you live in the southern US, especially FL, you may want to buy some mosquito repellent for the summer. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Solar drives renewables milestone in California ' "38 of the past 46 days, renewables have met the state’s full energy demand for part of the day" "It’s never happened before to this scale." politi.co/4aNg2pg POLITICO

At 5:01 May 13, officials carried out a controlled explosion of the Key Bridge collapse debris. People walking their dogs and jogging along the harbor promenade stopped as the boom echoed over the water. Smoke began rising in the distance seconds thereafter.

This month, multiple outlets said Venezuela 🇻🇪 was the first country to lose all of its glaciers in modern times (largely due to climate change). I thought I'd write the same, but as I delved deeper, I found Slovenia 🇸🇮 beat them to the punch in the 1980s. eenews.net/articles/slove…

The largest U.S. renewable bus depot broke ground last week, but are new hydrogen buses worth their $1.3 M lifetime premium? Advocate Alan Fisher : Better to increase ridership. Montgomery County, MD - County Exec Marc Elrich : We want more riders, but the new buses are still worthwhile. eenews.net/articles/maryl…

Happy to get syndicated by Scientific American again! Chelsea Harvey and I brought microbiology and glaciology together for this piece highlighting fascinating new research from Greenland: viruses may be keeping further sea level rise at bay. scientificamerican.com/article/giant-…

New Pew Research Center poll: shows ~12% point drop in American support for renewables. Author Alec Tyson tells me: "Although there remains broad public support for renewable energy, the breadth of that support is less widespread than it was 4 years ago." eenews.net/articles/ameri…

A California company says it has developed a novel way of making concrete that doesn’t contribute to global warming trib.al/SUzHn02

Just saw a tweet from March that said "warming stopped years ago" ... So that didn't age well.

This looks bad. But FERC doesn’t penalize market participants based on narratives. FERC’s approach is to parse the rules (RTO tariffs in this case) and decide whether the conduct violated the FERC-approved document. I don’t think this case is so clear-cut.