Mik Aidt
@mikaidt.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster, communicator. Lived in Denmark many years, had a record company, spent 4 years in Africa, visited 60 countries. Since 2013 settled in Australia with three teenage kids. Doing what I can to empower #thegreentransition
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Mik Aidt
@mikaidt.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Unlocking the global transition in Australia
Mik Aidt’s proposal to adopt the Danes’ term ’Den Grønne Omstilling’ as a unifying phrase for addressing the climate crisis.
climatesafety.info
#Australia, we need a new, stronger, more united and positive narrative about what is happening and where we are going.
Here's what I propose: Unlocking the phrase 'the green transition' (or 'the global transition'?) in Australia
climatesafety.info/theglobaltra...
Here's what I propose: Unlocking the phrase 'the green transition' (or 'the global transition'?) in Australia
climatesafety.info/theglobaltra...
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Pretending that fossil fuels can be harmless is 100x worse than denying climate science. Not sure I've seen anything that lay it out with such efficient density as this @danrepacholimp.bsky.social speech.
I lay it all out at @crikey.com.au for you -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
I lay it all out at @crikey.com.au for you -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Pretending that fossil fuels can be harmless is 100x worse than denying climate science. Not sure I've seen anything that lay it out with such efficient density as this @danrepacholimp.bsky.social speech.
I lay it all out at @crikey.com.au for you -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
I lay it all out at @crikey.com.au for you -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
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"Fossil fuel companies, in order to maintain their garish profits—& Big Oil executives, in order to buy their 4th homes & private jets &, increasingly, luxury bunkers—knowingly stole humanity’s best chance to address climate change on a timeline that would have averted apocalypse."
"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution
In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.
newrepublic.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Fossil fuel companies, in order to maintain their garish profits—& Big Oil executives, in order to buy their 4th homes & private jets &, increasingly, luxury bunkers—knowingly stole humanity’s best chance to address climate change on a timeline that would have averted apocalypse."
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The Climate Change Apocalypse will encourage people to go on KILLING sprees
mol.im/a/15235137 via @DailyMail
mol.im/a/15235137 via @DailyMail
The apocalypse will encourage people to go on KILLING sprees
A terrifying simulation has revealed how humanity's darkest instincts might reign supreme at the very end.
mol.im
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Climate Change Apocalypse will encourage people to go on KILLING sprees
mol.im/a/15235137 via @DailyMail
mol.im/a/15235137 via @DailyMail
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#TheSustainableHour #571:
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→ Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab...
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation, ACF - @ausconservation.bsky.social
#climatejustice
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Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation, ACF - @ausconservation.bsky.social
#climatejustice
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#TheSustainableHour #571:
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→ Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab...
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation, ACF - @ausconservation.bsky.social
#climatejustice
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab...
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation, ACF - @ausconservation.bsky.social
#climatejustice
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The Australian Conservation Foundation has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court to challenge Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas hub extension.
ACF to challenge NW Shelf approval in Federal Court
The Australian Conservation Foundation has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court to challenge Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of…
www.acf.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The Australian Conservation Foundation has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court to challenge Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas hub extension.
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Australia’s ‘environment protection’ law does no such thing. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Woodside case proves what we’ve long suspected: Australia’s ‘environment protection’ law does no such thing
Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Australia’s ‘environment protection’ law does no such thing. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global solar boom tempers climate change pessimism
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: www.semafor.com/article/10/...
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Global solar boom tempers climate change pessimism
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: www.semafor.com/article/10/...
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Global solar boom tempers climate change pessimism
There is already four times as much solar capacity worldwide as analysts in 2010 had forecast for 2035.
www.semafor.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Global solar boom tempers climate change pessimism
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: www.semafor.com/article/10/...
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Global solar boom tempers climate change pessimism
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: www.semafor.com/article/10/...
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Excellent assessment of @australianlabor.bsky.social's deeply flawed environmental law reform package. Thank you @zalisteggall.bsky.social.
www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_th...
www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_th...
Zali Steggall MP speaks on the Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025
www.zalisteggall.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Excellent assessment of @australianlabor.bsky.social's deeply flawed environmental law reform package. Thank you @zalisteggall.bsky.social.
www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_th...
www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_th...
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I was hollering and pounding on the table even before I saw this was a @colinreports.bsky.social job
I am doing my damnedest to do and advocate for climate work that makes a big positive impact on people’s daily lives, and not center the C word, in my community
IMO that’s the way forward
I am doing my damnedest to do and advocate for climate work that makes a big positive impact on people’s daily lives, and not center the C word, in my community
IMO that’s the way forward
“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Means for New York's Climate Politics
The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.
nysfocus.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I was hollering and pounding on the table even before I saw this was a @colinreports.bsky.social job
I am doing my damnedest to do and advocate for climate work that makes a big positive impact on people’s daily lives, and not center the C word, in my community
IMO that’s the way forward
I am doing my damnedest to do and advocate for climate work that makes a big positive impact on people’s daily lives, and not center the C word, in my community
IMO that’s the way forward
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“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Means for New York's Climate Politics
The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.
nysfocus.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
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Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
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"There are substantial risks that natural gas could crowd out investments in renewable technologies or delay the broader adoption of zero emission energy systems," the report said."
Secret report challenges government claim WA gas will help world decarbonise
A secret report undermines the WA government's claim that domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise, while the state's own greenhouse gas emissions rise.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"There are substantial risks that natural gas could crowd out investments in renewable technologies or delay the broader adoption of zero emission energy systems," the report said."
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🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed.
Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.
Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.
Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.
Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.
Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed.
Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.
Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.
Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.
Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.
Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...
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🚨 NEW | As renewables boom, an ‘agricultural revolution’ for energy is underway – advancing us from foraging scarce fossil fuels to harvesting abundant sunlight instead ☀️
And storage holds the key to this new revolution 🔑🔋 Ember’s four takes 🧵 1/5
ember-energy.org/lat...
And storage holds the key to this new revolution 🔑🔋 Ember’s four takes 🧵 1/5
ember-energy.org/lat...
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨 NEW | As renewables boom, an ‘agricultural revolution’ for energy is underway – advancing us from foraging scarce fossil fuels to harvesting abundant sunlight instead ☀️
And storage holds the key to this new revolution 🔑🔋 Ember’s four takes 🧵 1/5
ember-energy.org/lat...
And storage holds the key to this new revolution 🔑🔋 Ember’s four takes 🧵 1/5
ember-energy.org/lat...
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Is using "1.5°C" as shorthand for "required action" counterproductive? As in this from yesterday, for instance:
climateanalytics.org/comment/why-...
climateanalytics.org/comment/why-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Is using "1.5°C" as shorthand for "required action" counterproductive? As in this from yesterday, for instance:
climateanalytics.org/comment/why-...
climateanalytics.org/comment/why-...
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One RRA figure has made many dozens of submissions denouncing every new wind, battery or solar project around #Auspol as catastrophic for biodiversity.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
They're all AI generated pseudo-science, full of faked citations.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One RRA figure has made many dozens of submissions denouncing every new wind, battery or solar project around #Auspol as catastrophic for biodiversity.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
They're all AI generated pseudo-science, full of faked citations.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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One RRA figure has made many dozens of submissions denouncing every new wind, battery or solar project around #Auspol as catastrophic for biodiversity.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
They're all AI generated pseudo-science, full of faked citations.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One RRA figure has made many dozens of submissions denouncing every new wind, battery or solar project around #Auspol as catastrophic for biodiversity.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
They're all AI generated pseudo-science, full of faked citations.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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“To watch a glacier collapse is to feel the full weight of climate change.”
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.
North to Alaska: America’s Climate Warning
Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State
www.meidasplus.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“To watch a glacier collapse is to feel the full weight of climate change.”
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.
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Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
October 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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What's stopping us? 🤷🏻♀️
The #climatecrisis can provoke overwhelming emotions...
Fear, anger, grief - and sometimes numbness or shutting down. If we’re not equipped to process these emotions, we will struggle to take the action needed. [1/4]
The #climatecrisis can provoke overwhelming emotions...
Fear, anger, grief - and sometimes numbness or shutting down. If we’re not equipped to process these emotions, we will struggle to take the action needed. [1/4]
August 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
What's stopping us? 🤷🏻♀️
The #climatecrisis can provoke overwhelming emotions...
Fear, anger, grief - and sometimes numbness or shutting down. If we’re not equipped to process these emotions, we will struggle to take the action needed. [1/4]
The #climatecrisis can provoke overwhelming emotions...
Fear, anger, grief - and sometimes numbness or shutting down. If we’re not equipped to process these emotions, we will struggle to take the action needed. [1/4]
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#FORCEOFLIFE #1:
The elders’ revolt, awe, and reinventing the world
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes: climatesafety.info/forceoflife1
with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders
#ForceofLife #TorNørretranders #senioruprise #awe #commons #ServiceToLife
The elders’ revolt, awe, and reinventing the world
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes: climatesafety.info/forceoflife1
with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders
#ForceofLife #TorNørretranders #senioruprise #awe #commons #ServiceToLife
October 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
#FORCEOFLIFE #1:
The elders’ revolt, awe, and reinventing the world
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes: climatesafety.info/forceoflife1
with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders
#ForceofLife #TorNørretranders #senioruprise #awe #commons #ServiceToLife
The elders’ revolt, awe, and reinventing the world
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes: climatesafety.info/forceoflife1
with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders
#ForceofLife #TorNørretranders #senioruprise #awe #commons #ServiceToLife
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#TheClimateRevolution podcast episode 10:
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS ROOTED IN SERVICE TO LIFE ON EARTH
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→ Notes and transcript: climatesafety.info/climaterevol...
Featuring the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
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REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS ROOTED IN SERVICE TO LIFE ON EARTH
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→ Notes and transcript: climatesafety.info/climaterevol...
Featuring the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
🧵→
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
#TheClimateRevolution podcast episode 10:
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS ROOTED IN SERVICE TO LIFE ON EARTH
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes and transcript: climatesafety.info/climaterevol...
Featuring the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
🧵→
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS ROOTED IN SERVICE TO LIFE ON EARTH
→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u...
→ Notes and transcript: climatesafety.info/climaterevol...
Featuring the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
🧵→
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I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.
In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
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In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
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Climate chaos is coming for us.
Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
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Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
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October 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.
In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
🧵1
In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
🧵1
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Posting a thread here on things I saw/heard/learned at #ClimateWeekNYC. First off, I was there as part of @climatecrisisag.bsky.social ‘s efforts to support science informed decision making. They are a great group that I’m lucky to be a part of! www.ccag.earth
Climate Crisis Advisory Group
Climate Crisis Advisory Group is a collection of the world’s most influential, diverse, and interdisciplinary climate experts.
www.ccag.earth
September 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Posting a thread here on things I saw/heard/learned at #ClimateWeekNYC. First off, I was there as part of @climatecrisisag.bsky.social ‘s efforts to support science informed decision making. They are a great group that I’m lucky to be a part of! www.ccag.earth
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.
It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.
Via @heatmap.news
It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.
Via @heatmap.news
How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart
The administration argued in the name of national defense — but Orsted had receipts.
heatmap.news
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.
It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.
Via @heatmap.news
It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.
Via @heatmap.news