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Mark Chediak
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Journalist for Bloomberg News writing about utilities, renewables and climate disasters. Opinions are my own.
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Do not miss this stunning investigation that reveals how a Koch-funded machine and Silicon Valley's new found interest is behind the dangerous advanced nuclear hype in the US.

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The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again
A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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“.. a nagging worry is beginning to grow louder on Wall Street: What if these kinds of collapses, capable of taking bonds from par to cents on the dollar in a matter of days or weeks, are not an aberration after all?” 👀

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October 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Solar panel installations in China slowed again in August to hit the lowest since late 2022, as producers turned to overseas markets amid sluggish domestic demand
China’s Solar Installations Fall to Near Three-Year Low
Solar panel installations in China slowed again in August to hit the lowest in nearly three years, as producers turned to overseas markets amid sluggish domestic demand.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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President Donald Trump said his administration will use funds collected from tariffs to assist US farmers, who have thus far been hit hard by his trade policies
Trump Says Tariff Revenue Will Fund Relief for US Farmers
President Donald Trump said his administration will use funds collected from tariffs to assist beleaguered US farmers, who have thus far been hit hard by his trade policies.
bloom.bg
September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Chinese carmaker BYD just broke the speed record for a production car, and it's all electric. 308 mph.
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A good reminder to *have an earthquake kit*. Headlamp, gloves, water, protein, radio,🔋, chocolate

If you made one ages ago that canned food is expired
September 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492
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September 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
mchediak.bsky.social
Felt the shaking intensely in central Berkeley. Knocked a few things over but everyone is ok.
September 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.”

@weisenthal.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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ICYMI - News from late last night on the Trump administration seeking to void the permit of a Maryland offshore wind farm. 👇🏼
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Sep 13
The Trump administration asked a federal court to cancel the approval of a $6 billion wind project planned off the coast of Maryland as part of a wider effort to halt the development of the offshore clean- energy resource.
Trump Files to Cancel Approval of Maryland Offshore Wind Farm
The Trump administration asked a federal court to cancel the approval of a $6 billion wind project planned off the coast of Maryland as part of a wider effort to halt the development of the offshore clean- energy resource.
bloom.bg
September 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
mchediak.bsky.social
A thoughtful and important take on the online culture that pervades our lives 👇🏻
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 13
said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into. For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ICYMI👇🏼
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Sep 2
The Trump administration plans to reconsider a permit issued to a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, the latest move in its campaign to stymie the US offshore wind industry.
Trump to Review Approval of Wind Farm Off Massachusetts Coast
The Trump administration plans to reconsider a permit issued to a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, the latest move in its targeted campaign against the clean energy resource.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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NEW: An anti-offshore wind group is targeting a Brown researcher who studies climate obstruction. It's not the first time they've done it, but there's a new twist: They're threatening to go to the Trump administration unless the university retracts the work
Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher
The group asked for the retraction of work led by Timmons Roberts and said it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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How can something like the Spanish blackout be prevented from happening again? Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi and Laura Millan discuss on the Zero podcast
The 100-Ton Rotating Mass That Can Stop Blackouts
How can something like the Spanish blackout be prevented from happening again? Bloomberg Green’s Laura Millan joins Zero to discuss.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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“This is a happy industry, and this is a pretty unhappy time to be in it.” Trump's tariffs add unexpected costs to Christmas decorations
Christmas Decorations Come With Higher Price Tag This Holiday Season Thanks to Tariffs
Higher levies already added millions of dollars in unexpected expenses in a sector that orders artificial trees and ornaments months ahead of time
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August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Vanguard suggests a 70% bond and 30% stock portfolio for the next decade, per BI
August 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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President Trump’s tariff war is accelerating Beijing’s trade and investment push into developing nations known as the Global South, according to research by S&P Global
Trump Tariffs Seen Fostering New China-Global South Trade Order
President Donald Trump’s tariff war is accelerating Beijing’s trade and investment push into developing nations known as the Global South, according to research by S&P Global, potentially creating a new trade order dominated by Chinese firms.
bloom.bg
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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NEW -> Solar stocks rose Friday after the Trump Administration issued guidance on the phase out of solar and wind tax breaks that wasn't as bad as feared. Story w/ @arinatter.bsky.social

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Trump’s Latest Attack on Wind and Solar Squeezes Tax Breaks
Clean energy stocks soared after the Trump administration released new guidance on eligibility requirements for tax credits that weren’t as punitive as the industry had feared.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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July 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ICYMI 👇🏼
August 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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ICYMI - Story with @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @arinatter.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s moves to stop #solar and #wind development and support other energy sources.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 7
The pace and range of the moves against renewables -- alongside several others that prop up fossil fuels and nuclear power -- have whipsawed wind and solar developers that had grown accustomed to federal support.
Trump's Latest Attacks Stun Wind and Solar Industries
President Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on wind and solar power from the rhetorical to the tangible, mounting a rapid-fire campaign that exceeds the industries’ worst fears.In just the past few weeks, the Trump administration instituted permitting reviews that threaten US wind and solar developments. It imposed standards that would essentially prevent new developments on federal land. It rescinded Biden-era decisions earmarking coastal waters for future wind turbines. And on Wednesday
bloom.bg
August 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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WH: Trump to Nominate Stephen Miran as Fed Governor - Bloomberg
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August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I don’t think people are prepared for where this growing movement toward maximum partisan gerrymandering is headed
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Scoop -> California Governor Gavin Newsom pushing for legislation to shore up a state wildfire insurance fund for utilities that's at risk of being depleted after the deadly LA #wildfires. Story with California reporter Eliyahu Kamisher.

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Newsom Seeks $18 Billion for Utilities’ Wildfire Fund as California Faces Future Blazes
California Governor Gavin Newsom is circulating a legislative proposal to shore up a state fund for utilities that’s at risk of being depleted following the deadly wildfires that struck Los Angeles Co...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM