Molly Wood
@mollywood.co
Tech journalist turned climate tech journalist. Telling stories about solutions to the climate crisis on the Everybody in the Pool podcast. Climate tech investor. mollywood.co
Creating change can be hard, slow, collaborative work and @buildingdecarb.org is doing it. I love the pragmatism and the hope and the successes that came out of this interview!
On the Everybody in the Pool podcast, BDC’s Panama Bartholomy discusses with host @mollywood.co how building decarbonization is both an energy affordability and clean air solution, and the path forward to an #AllElectric future. #EnergyAffordability #HeatPump #EnergySky bit.ly/46O7EWi
E120: Panama Bartholomy and taking pollution out of buildings | Everybody in the Pool
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February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Creating change can be hard, slow, collaborative work and @buildingdecarb.org is doing it. I love the pragmatism and the hope and the successes that came out of this interview!
But the IOC was like nah, we're cool with him. It really is wild how the individuals of the Olympics can be so inspiring and the entire structure around it is utterly revolting. Possibly a metaphor for society but I'm too nauseated to play it all the way out.
Breaking WSJ:
Casey Wasserman is putting his talent and marketing agency up for sale, he said in a memo to staff Friday night.
The move follows the release of suggestive emails he exchanged years ago with Ghislaine Maxwell and the departure of high-profile talent from his firm.
Casey Wasserman is putting his talent and marketing agency up for sale, he said in a memo to staff Friday night.
The move follows the release of suggestive emails he exchanged years ago with Ghislaine Maxwell and the departure of high-profile talent from his firm.
Exclusive | Casey Wasserman Putting His Talent Agency Up for Sale After Epstein Fallout
Wasserman has said he “never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” and told staff he felt that he had “become a distraction” to the firm’s work.
www.wsj.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM
But the IOC was like nah, we're cool with him. It really is wild how the individuals of the Olympics can be so inspiring and the entire structure around it is utterly revolting. Possibly a metaphor for society but I'm too nauseated to play it all the way out.
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The Trump administration finally issued its justifications for repealing the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
Now the big question: Will they hold up in court?
@emilypont.bsky.social walks through the arguments:
heatmap.news/climate/epa-...
Now the big question: Will they hold up in court?
@emilypont.bsky.social walks through the arguments:
heatmap.news/climate/epa-...
The 3 Arguments Trump Used to Gut Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Whether any of them will hold up in court is now the big question.
heatmap.news
February 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The Trump administration finally issued its justifications for repealing the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
Now the big question: Will they hold up in court?
@emilypont.bsky.social walks through the arguments:
heatmap.news/climate/epa-...
Now the big question: Will they hold up in court?
@emilypont.bsky.social walks through the arguments:
heatmap.news/climate/epa-...
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“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
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Right-wing paramilitary rounding people up by race at government behest. No amount of quibbling over due process or "policing standards" or whether or a person is "legal" can address this, much less begin to heal it. It must be stopped, and those responsible must face consequences.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Right-wing paramilitary rounding people up by race at government behest. No amount of quibbling over due process or "policing standards" or whether or a person is "legal" can address this, much less begin to heal it. It must be stopped, and those responsible must face consequences.
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Embarrassing. For all of us.
"Sir, to show our appreciation, the trophy says 'the undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal'"
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Embarrassing. For all of us.
This is wonderful, and indeed, we will not have our dogs used like this.
February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
This is wonderful, and indeed, we will not have our dogs used like this.
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"The end of the Chevron deference means that judges 'must more carefully assess scientific evidence when interpreting the law.'"
But "a federal agency has deleted a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after complaints from 27 Republican state attorneys general."
Gift link
But "a federal agency has deleted a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after complaints from 27 Republican state attorneys general."
Gift link
Climate Change Is Erased From a Manual for Federal Judges
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
"The end of the Chevron deference means that judges 'must more carefully assess scientific evidence when interpreting the law.'"
But "a federal agency has deleted a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after complaints from 27 Republican state attorneys general."
Gift link
But "a federal agency has deleted a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after complaints from 27 Republican state attorneys general."
Gift link
More than that -- and it is that, in the strongest possible terms -- it is also a green light to pollute our cities, towns, and states, and perhaps it will help to speak of it that way.
The US Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to repeal a policy that provides the legal foundation for a raft of rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions, marking President Donald Trump’s most consequential retreat from the fight against climate change
Trump’s EPA to Scrap Landmark Emissions Policy in Major Rollback
The US Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to repeal a policy that provides the legal foundation for a raft of rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions, marking President Donald Trump’s most consequential retreat from the fight against climate change.
bloom.bg
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 AM
More than that -- and it is that, in the strongest possible terms -- it is also a green light to pollute our cities, towns, and states, and perhaps it will help to speak of it that way.
I am reminding myself in this moment that other countries are forging ahead without us, that states will make their own rules because people don't actually want massive pollution and out of control corporations poisoning land, water, air, and animals. But it's still pretty monstrous.
🎁Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I am reminding myself in this moment that other countries are forging ahead without us, that states will make their own rules because people don't actually want massive pollution and out of control corporations poisoning land, water, air, and animals. But it's still pretty monstrous.
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939
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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
February 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
The fact that these two stories appeared back to back in my feed. Sigh.
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The fact that these two stories appeared back to back in my feed. Sigh.
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Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
Notes on winter
When the world turns whimsical
billmckibben.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
This is the dissertation I immediately wished for as soon as the halftime show was over. In. Credible. Thank you, @beckyhammer.bsky.social!!!
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 AM
This is the dissertation I immediately wished for as soon as the halftime show was over. In. Credible. Thank you, @beckyhammer.bsky.social!!!
But maybe like a week. time.com/4008060/wome...
The Day Women Went on Strike
The Women's Strike for Equality March took place on Aug. 26, 1970
time.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
But maybe like a week. time.com/4008060/wome...
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The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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I will move the entirety of my 401ks to whatever provider allows me to avoid exposure to this bag of hurt. Just give me an S&P-E fund and you can charge me 0.1%.
The tone of this article reads like the private equity industry trying to get access to 401(k)’s to dump their bags there:
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I will move the entirety of my 401ks to whatever provider allows me to avoid exposure to this bag of hurt. Just give me an S&P-E fund and you can charge me 0.1%.
Remember when he had that Bezos Earth Fund? And started the Climate Pledge? People at Amazon told me that he was one of the major drivers of climate efforts and they withered on the vine when he stepped away. But apparently I surely as money and power chip away at empathy, they destroy values, too.
I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Remember when he had that Bezos Earth Fund? And started the Climate Pledge? People at Amazon told me that he was one of the major drivers of climate efforts and they withered on the vine when he stepped away. But apparently I surely as money and power chip away at empathy, they destroy values, too.
The losses are almost too great to tally today, but this is a big one.
I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The losses are almost too great to tally today, but this is a big one.
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Jfc. Even if this weren't extinction acceleration, it is a retrograde, stupid, filthy, inefficient way to get energy. It's the last possible recourse. It's nonsensical caveman fuel.
‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel
‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel
Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’
Donald Trump’s administration has turned to an unusual weapon in its attempt to resurrect coal mining – a cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, called ‘Coalie.’
The administration’s new mascot, kitted out with a helmet, boots and gloves, was introduced in a seemingly artificial intelligence-generated picture posted online by Doug Burgum, Trump’s interior secretary. “Mine, Baby, Mine!” Burgum wrote on X, adding that Coalie will act as a “spokesperson” for Trump’s “American Energy Dominance Agenda.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Jfc. Even if this weren't extinction acceleration, it is a retrograde, stupid, filthy, inefficient way to get energy. It's the last possible recourse. It's nonsensical caveman fuel.
The Wall Street Journal is doing some really good Epstein reporting. Unfortunately it's all behind paywalls and they don't do gift articles. 😔
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The Wall Street Journal is doing some really good Epstein reporting. Unfortunately it's all behind paywalls and they don't do gift articles. 😔
What's wild is I have been trying to tell people for years that Peter Thiel was masterminding the destruction of this country for profit but it turns out it was Epstein all along hahahahaha I think I might have hit my limit now.
February 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
What's wild is I have been trying to tell people for years that Peter Thiel was masterminding the destruction of this country for profit but it turns out it was Epstein all along hahahahaha I think I might have hit my limit now.