NEW: The Biden administration is set to announce the winners of the first-round of funding for technology that fights climate change by sucking carbon from the air.

Projects by Occidental and Climeworks are said to be front-runners.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 🔓w/ Brian Kahn

Some personal news: I am over at The Other Place now too

Thread 🧵1) With monsoon season fast approaching, #Pakistan has already seen heavy rains and strong winds resulting in dozens of fatalities. This year, though, the rain is falling on a country still reeling. bloomberg.com/news/features/… w Faseeh Mangi

📢Also, calling all Los Angeles-based climate tech founders, researchers, investors and policy people! I just made a cross-country move and am looking to get acquainted with the climate tech community here, so please DM me if you're LA-based and down for a coffee chat.

Excited to share the cover of my first book. It lays out a framework for scaling climate solutions through success stories from around the world.

🚨 If you pre-order, send the receipt and an address ([email protected]), I'll mail a signed bookplate bit.ly/climate-capita…

FYI, this story contains ZERO on-record comment from NYC pizzeria owners who say climate rules would harm them or affect quality of pizza.

The only source who says that is an anonymous 'pizza restaurateur,' who gave no reason for anonymity

nypost.com/2023/06/25/nyc…

The Loan Programs Office from US govt

2010: $465 million to Tesla
2023: $9200 million to Ford

That's 20x.

bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

Have you ever wondered what would happen if net zero were put to a popular vote? One, you are such a nerd. And two, we're about to find out this weekend bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up By Brian Kahn
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Brian was extraordinarily polite about me accidentally texting him my itinerary updates and, much more importantly, had really interesting and deep questions about the future of carbon removal.

its LAUNCH DAY over here!

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Uhhhhhh... 'A flight from Paris to New York powered solely by waste biofuels such as animal fats requires some 8,800 dead pigs' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Can't stop singing 'baby nuke' like it's 'baby shark,' someone please help me bloomberg.com/news/articles/…