Brad Plumer
@bradplumer.bsky.social
Reporter, NYT Climate.
email: brad.plumer@nytimes.com
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email: brad.plumer@nytimes.com
signal: bradplumer.54
If you’re asking me, sure, put it on Google calendar….
September 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you’re asking me, sure, put it on Google calendar….
full list of canceled awards here....
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
full list of canceled awards here....
excellent news, congrats!!
April 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
excellent news, congrats!!
oh for sure, i'm just curious what drove the earlier decline
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
oh for sure, i'm just curious what drove the earlier decline
This chart makes it look like Tesla’s decline in Germany has been happening for awhile and not really related to any recent DC stuff, no?
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This chart makes it look like Tesla’s decline in Germany has been happening for awhile and not really related to any recent DC stuff, no?
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Update 2/2: Dept of Justice memo directs all agencies to comply with Friday's federal Court injunction prohibiting any arbitrary suspension of federal grants & assistance due to OMB memo or Trump's Executive Orders! Effective Monday 9am. Hat tip @benjaminwittes.bsky.social & @azevin.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Update 2/2: Dept of Justice memo directs all agencies to comply with Friday's federal Court injunction prohibiting any arbitrary suspension of federal grants & assistance due to OMB memo or Trump's Executive Orders! Effective Monday 9am. Hat tip @benjaminwittes.bsky.social & @azevin.bsky.social
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“These are real human beings. We have one woman in her 80s who lives alone, and if she does not get her roof fixed, well, we’re going to have a senior in her late 80s who is homeless."
More on the human cost of this illegal freeze of obligated grants
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c... 🎁🔗
More on the human cost of this illegal freeze of obligated grants
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c... 🎁🔗
Trump’s Halt on Climate Spending Freezes Jobs and Stalls Projects
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“These are real human beings. We have one woman in her 80s who lives alone, and if she does not get her roof fixed, well, we’re going to have a senior in her late 80s who is homeless."
More on the human cost of this illegal freeze of obligated grants
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c... 🎁🔗
More on the human cost of this illegal freeze of obligated grants
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c... 🎁🔗
That said I do think @liamdenning.bsky.social makes a bunch of great points here — there's a lot of risk for the nuclear industry in counting on AI-driven load growth to drive the development of small modular reactors. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
DeepSeek Is Coming for Sam Altman’s Other Company Too
Oklo’s prospects depend on AI’s insatiable need for electricity fueling demand for carbon-free electricity and expensive nuclear projects.
www.bloomberg.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
That said I do think @liamdenning.bsky.social makes a bunch of great points here — there's a lot of risk for the nuclear industry in counting on AI-driven load growth to drive the development of small modular reactors. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
that is a very good question
January 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
that is a very good question
oh for sure, i've definitely had developers tell me they avoid federal lands because of NEPA (among other things).
January 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
oh for sure, i've definitely had developers tell me they avoid federal lands because of NEPA (among other things).
Fair point, for scale, NREL says about 4% of utility-scale renewable energy capacity is currently on federal land (wind/solar/geothermal). www.nrel.gov/analysis/ren...
Doesn't include proposed projects though. There is a lot of solar potential on federal lands, fwiw.
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Doesn't include proposed projects though. There is a lot of solar potential on federal lands, fwiw.
bsky.app/profile/rose...
Before you freak out about this, it's a good idea to ask just how much #solar is being developed on US federal land vs. private land.
In my experience, the large majority is on private land. But would love to see some robust numbers around this.
In my experience, the large majority is on private land. But would love to see some robust numbers around this.
New Interior memo orders a 60-day pause on new approvals for all renewable energy development on federal land—not just wind, this one also affects solar. www.doi.gov/document-lib...
(Very similar to an early Biden DOI memo ordering a 60-day freeze on new fossil fuel authorizations on public lands.)
(Very similar to an early Biden DOI memo ordering a 60-day freeze on new fossil fuel authorizations on public lands.)
January 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fair point, for scale, NREL says about 4% of utility-scale renewable energy capacity is currently on federal land (wind/solar/geothermal). www.nrel.gov/analysis/ren...
Doesn't include proposed projects though. There is a lot of solar potential on federal lands, fwiw.
bsky.app/profile/rose...
Doesn't include proposed projects though. There is a lot of solar potential on federal lands, fwiw.
bsky.app/profile/rose...
oh interesting i'll look/ask
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
oh interesting i'll look/ask
that is what i'm hearing although certainly could be wrong — though i think the 2021 version of this memo was in effect a pause on fossil fuel authorizations no? www.doi.gov/sites/doi.go...
www.doi.gov
January 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
that is what i'm hearing although certainly could be wrong — though i think the 2021 version of this memo was in effect a pause on fossil fuel authorizations no? www.doi.gov/sites/doi.go...
oh yeah, just meant the language is extremely similar except swapping "fossil fuels" with "renewables." obviously very different real world impact!
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
oh yeah, just meant the language is extremely similar except swapping "fossil fuels" with "renewables." obviously very different real world impact!
Possibly relevant... bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "We don't want windmills in this country. We're putting an order on it. I've already sort of done it. We don't want windmills ... you know what else people don't like? Those massive solar fields."
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possibly relevant... bsky.app/profile/atru...
DOE and nuclear folks talk a lot about how a lot of lessons were learned from the Vogtle project in Georgia and that the next AP-1000s could be built more efficiently, with fewer problems and overruns.
TBD whether anyone wants to test that out — and what kind of federal backing they'd need.
TBD whether anyone wants to test that out — and what kind of federal backing they'd need.
January 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
DOE and nuclear folks talk a lot about how a lot of lessons were learned from the Vogtle project in Georgia and that the next AP-1000s could be built more efficiently, with fewer problems and overruns.
TBD whether anyone wants to test that out — and what kind of federal backing they'd need.
TBD whether anyone wants to test that out — and what kind of federal backing they'd need.