This is my two cents on the Caputo resignation at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Still holds today. The path to success on climate for the US runs through the Capitol, not the Reagan Building. wapo.st/44TLsd6

Michael Grunwald They just enshrined 10 years of support for clean firm power in the US tax code and tax credits for manufacturing energy components in the US, including solar. It's a walkback of the IRA sure, but if that were the original IRA it would have been called a victory. And substantial

Listen to Emmet

I got a copy of NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo's resignation letter. Updated on my initial scoop:

Hydro🤝 fracking

Some of what's going on, I think, is people taking the norm of not publicly criticizing people in startup culture (which is perfectly fine there) and applying it to actors in the federal government (where it's a ridiculous norm)

Yeah, the reality is that the DOGE folks were making policy — and often policy that ran orthogonal to Pres. Trump’s own goals. You saw this with a number of the early layoffs, where DOGE and the political who headed the office would be in an active negotiation with one another.

New: EPW Chair Shelley Moore Capito is headed to the floor to discuss permitting reform being a “high priority” for post recess, she tells me. The committee’s top Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is expected to join and make remarks as well on shared interest

By general agreement, Buttigieg's best format is on-camera interviews where he can field any Q and explain himself. That was where this answer came from (NPR). But the discourse I see is largely screenshots of a headline about half the answer. No one immune to post-literacy.

ERCOT is headed for a two-year electricity demand expansion not seen since the state’s boom years of the 1960s and running about five-times the national growth rate.

Amazing that this is US trade policy

NG CCS is being built for data centers! Tallgrass and Crusoe Energy are partnering on a 1.8GW (capacity to scale to 10 GW) facility powered by renewables and natural gas with CCS.

“This is not just a tragedy — it’s a moral failure”

We’ve got a new geothermal report!

If you're using the term "clanker," you're almost certainly beyond help. Sorry to say.