The G7 has a preliminary agreement to phase-out all its coal-fired power station by 2035 ('first half of the 2030s').

Coal still accounts for ~30% of electricity generation in two G7 nations (Japan and Germany), and ~20% in another one (US).

#EnergyTransition #CoalTwitter

The structure of 'forever chemicals,' or PFAS, allows them to migrate and exist indefinitely in the most remote corners of our world— from the summit of Mount Everest to the bottom of an ocean, 3,000 feet deep and untouched for 100s of years.

My latest: washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-…

How did Foxtrot/Dom's grocers implode? Not clear yet.

Sign outside one store says, '$180,000,000 in the hole :/'

AP: 'The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.' apnews.com/article/alaska…

In his speech at our wedding my father-in-law read a journal entry they had found from my husband when he was 8. In it he was mad at his family because he had been grounded and he ended the entry with, 'one day I'll show them all. I just need to star in one major motion picture.'

Humanity has just two years left “to save the world,' UN Climate Change chief Simon Stiell warns at London's Chatham House, stressing the need for nations to take more urgent action on climate, emissions reductions

Full remarks here: unfccc.int/news/two-years…

Biden admin urged Congress to fully fund the reconstruction of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in a letter to key lawmakers, Lillianna Byington reports.

100% federal cost share would be consistent with past major bridge collapses, including in Minnesota in 2007, Shalanda Young…

New: Few stations and $200 to fill up: Life on California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway.” The state committed more than $250 million toward building out a network of stations for hydrogen fuel cell cars. It’s not going great. Free link.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

ME this am: House GOP's dicey Ukraine-LNG gambit. I confirmed Speaker Johnson is considering linking those issues in a bid to extract a concession from Dems to overturn Biden gas export pause. Why the strategy looks risky & unlikely to work. 'The vote coalition just isn’t there”

Jam-packed EU election playbook just landed, with the latest developments on what's already being dubbed 'Russia-gate' at the European Parliament; plus Fidesz gossip, who's NOT running, and a dispatch from Slovakia where no-one cares about the election.

politico.eu/newsletter/eu-…

Cherry Blossom Update: A few windy days have knocked some blossoms off the cherry trees, but the walk through the park is still gorgeous. Even with some rain coming, we expect the blossoms to look good through the weekend. 🌸🌸🌸
#cherryblossom #WashingtonDC

The #CERAWeek conference view:

If the energy transition was a Facebook relationship status, the evolution would be something like:

2020: single
2021: in a relationship
2022: engaged
2023: married
2024: it’s complicated

The Panama Canal has avoided the worst of a shipping crunch that threatened to upend the global economy — but at a cost to marine life and the Latin American country’s supplies of potable water. trib.al/NK3wwgk

The battle against those fires in the Texas Panhandle continues.

Gov. Greg Abbott just released an update on status of the containment of each of the big fires up there right now.

The Smokehouse Creek Fire remains just 15% contained.

NEWS—Biden issues national security memorandum on “safeguards and accountability” for U.S. military aid

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) tells us this is in keeping w/his amendment to the foreign aid bill that would require recipients of U.S. aid to comply w/int’l humanitarian law

As president of the @WHCA, selecting our dinner's headline entertainer is a big task and one far different than my day to day duties.I feel extraordinarily fortunate that Colin Jost said yes!! He will be superb. nbcnews.com/politics/white…