Tom DiChristopher
@tdichristopher.bsky.social
Energy reporter. Gas utilities, building electrification, low-carbon fuels, pipeline safety. Opinions & comic book commentary mine. Go Bills.
Dear new parents: Fantastic Four: First Steps will destroy you. Bring tissues. Or just wipe your face with Wet Ones.
July 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Dear new parents: Fantastic Four: First Steps will destroy you. Bring tissues. Or just wipe your face with Wet Ones.
Triggering flashbacks of covering the slow-motion unraveling of Scott Pruitt’s brief tenure as EPA administrator.
BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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April 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Triggering flashbacks of covering the slow-motion unraveling of Scott Pruitt’s brief tenure as EPA administrator.
In which Bezalel Smotrich says the quiet part out loud: The chief goal of the war is not to return Israeli hostages to their families; it’s to annex the Gaza Strip and permanently remove Palestinians from their land.
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Israeli minister says returning hostages not ‘the most important goal’
Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should conquer and reoccupy the Gaza Strip for “total victory” against Hamas.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
In which Bezalel Smotrich says the quiet part out loud: The chief goal of the war is not to return Israeli hostages to their families; it’s to annex the Gaza Strip and permanently remove Palestinians from their land.
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It is shocking how difficult it is as a lone father to find a place to change your baby at Moynihan Station. Ended up changing my son in a booth at the Food Hall, which seems like not the outcome anyone wants. It is the year of our Lord 2025, @amtrak.com, @mta.info
April 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It is shocking how difficult it is as a lone father to find a place to change your baby at Moynihan Station. Ended up changing my son in a booth at the Food Hall, which seems like not the outcome anyone wants. It is the year of our Lord 2025, @amtrak.com, @mta.info
"I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career” — Trump’s energy and trade policy undermines the US oil and gas industry that he aims to bolster, executives say in the latest Dallas Fed Survey. From my colleague Bill Holland.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career” — Trump’s energy and trade policy undermines the US oil and gas industry that he aims to bolster, executives say in the latest Dallas Fed Survey. From my colleague Bill Holland.
www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
Slams work laptop shut until August. My second stretch of parental leave starts just in time for baseball season. See you just before Bills preseason, folks.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Slams work laptop shut until August. My second stretch of parental leave starts just in time for baseball season. See you just before Bills preseason, folks.
Boston partners with Eversource Energy and National Grid on a $150M program to install 5,000 electric heat pumps and weatherize 10,000 buildings over the next three years, via my colleague Noah Schwartz at @spci.bsky.social. Read more here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
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March 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Boston partners with Eversource Energy and National Grid on a $150M program to install 5,000 electric heat pumps and weatherize 10,000 buildings over the next three years, via my colleague Noah Schwartz at @spci.bsky.social. Read more here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
California's Future of Gas proceeding is entering a major new phase: Determining near-term steps to facilitate a managed transition away from natural gas use, including by requiring gas utilities to consider non-pipeline alternatives to fossil fuel projects. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
March 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
California's Future of Gas proceeding is entering a major new phase: Determining near-term steps to facilitate a managed transition away from natural gas use, including by requiring gas utilities to consider non-pipeline alternatives to fossil fuel projects. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
A US district court upheld NYC's gas ban for new buildings, the 1st major decision since a US appeals court knocked down Berkeley's ban in 2023. Here's what this could mean for the many legal challenges to US building decarb policy that followed the Berkeley ruling: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A US district court upheld NYC's gas ban for new buildings, the 1st major decision since a US appeals court knocked down Berkeley's ban in 2023. Here's what this could mean for the many legal challenges to US building decarb policy that followed the Berkeley ruling: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
For anyone who wants a helpful framework for how to think about and process the competing economic visions within the Trump admin — especially as it applies to tariffs — I found this conversation with FT columnist Gillian Tett very useful.
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Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/14/2025 · 1h 1m
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March 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
For anyone who wants a helpful framework for how to think about and process the competing economic visions within the Trump admin — especially as it applies to tariffs — I found this conversation with FT columnist Gillian Tett very useful.
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Hey hey! 11 years ago today, this fresh-faced reporter with baby duck hair was about to board a plane to visit his sister in China.
March 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hey hey! 11 years ago today, this fresh-faced reporter with baby duck hair was about to board a plane to visit his sister in China.
ICYMI: All of the scenario planning conducted to inform New Jersey's next Energy Master Plan found that natural gas demand will plunge more than 70% by 2050 as the state pursues its climate goals. Meanwhile, electricity demand will roughly double. Read here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
March 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
ICYMI: All of the scenario planning conducted to inform New Jersey's next Energy Master Plan found that natural gas demand will plunge more than 70% by 2050 as the state pursues its climate goals. Meanwhile, electricity demand will roughly double. Read here: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
No Deal: President Trump & NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ended today's WH meeting without an energy bargain - but will keep talking about trading Hochul's support for the defunct Constitution Pipeline project for Trump's backing of NYC congestion pricing & other items. More: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
March 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
No Deal: President Trump & NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ended today's WH meeting without an energy bargain - but will keep talking about trading Hochul's support for the defunct Constitution Pipeline project for Trump's backing of NYC congestion pricing & other items. More: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
Freshman Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, will chair the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, the subcommittee with oversight of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and that typically has a hand in crafting periodic pipeline safety bills.
February 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Freshman Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, will chair the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, the subcommittee with oversight of the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and that typically has a hand in crafting periodic pipeline safety bills.
Perhaps the least believable thing in Captain America: Brave New World is that the top priority in the president’s first 100 days agenda is a foreign policy issue.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Perhaps the least believable thing in Captain America: Brave New World is that the top priority in the president’s first 100 days agenda is a foreign policy issue.
Puget Sound Energy will partner with Modern Hydrogen to help large gas utility customers deploy on-site hydrogen production & carbon capture and utilization tech. The goal is to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, which face tough Washington emission limits. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
January 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Puget Sound Energy will partner with Modern Hydrogen to help large gas utility customers deploy on-site hydrogen production & carbon capture and utilization tech. The goal is to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, which face tough Washington emission limits. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
Regulators in climate-focused states are mulling the idea of retiring parts of gas utility systems. Last week, NY's regulator directed 2 gas utilities to explore decarbonization strategies like building electrification rather than replace leak-prone pipe. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
January 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Regulators in climate-focused states are mulling the idea of retiring parts of gas utility systems. Last week, NY's regulator directed 2 gas utilities to explore decarbonization strategies like building electrification rather than replace leak-prone pipe. Read: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...
Reversal of Biden's building electrification initiatives. Tax credits for RNG. A lighter-touch on methane leak detection rules. Permitting reform that limits pipeline project challenges.
With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reversal of Biden's building electrification initiatives. Tax credits for RNG. A lighter-touch on methane leak detection rules. Permitting reform that limits pipeline project challenges.
With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
With Trump in office, gas utilities see a more constructive backdrop. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
Casual Friday
January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Casual Friday
Reposted by Tom DiChristopher
TVA, Bechtel partner on initial planning for a small modular nuclear reactor in Tennessee that could be the nation's first utility-scale SMR. 🔌💡
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January 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
TVA, Bechtel partner on initial planning for a small modular nuclear reactor in Tennessee that could be the nation's first utility-scale SMR. 🔌💡
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And now that the baby is fed just before my 5:15am alarm goes off, it’s off to get an early start on writing up some gas transition regulation in New York and Colorado.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And now that the baby is fed just before my 5:15am alarm goes off, it’s off to get an early start on writing up some gas transition regulation in New York and Colorado.
Today’s 3:30am baby feeding reading: How the deepening of Canada-US pipeline interconnection in recent decades complicates Canada’s ability to exploit US reliance on Canadian crude in a looming trade war. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump's threats reveal the trouble with Canada's pipelines running through the U.S. | CBC News
Canada's crude oil exports give this country powerful leverage in any trade war with the United States. But interconnectedness is a double-edged sword: the U.S. also controls pipelines that flow into ...
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January 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Today’s 3:30am baby feeding reading: How the deepening of Canada-US pipeline interconnection in recent decades complicates Canada’s ability to exploit US reliance on Canadian crude in a looming trade war. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The Buffalo Bills Have a Kansas City Chiefs Problem. The Solution Weighs 1,909 Pounds.
When the Bills face the NFL’s reigning champion in Sunday’s AFC Championship, they will be bringing a new offensive wrinkle known as the jumbo package.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Welcome to the party, WSJ. Can I interest you in a bowling ball shot? Perhaps a trip through one of our fine folding tables? www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
One of my 1st stories of the 2nd Trump admin: The handoff from Biden augurs a sharp pivot from 4 years of federal support for the building electrification movement and an energy efficiency campaign that fueled a culture war over gas stoves and other appliances. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
January 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One of my 1st stories of the 2nd Trump admin: The handoff from Biden augurs a sharp pivot from 4 years of federal support for the building electrification movement and an energy efficiency campaign that fueled a culture war over gas stoves and other appliances. Read: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
New boss, pictured here, has approved my return to work after 6 weeks away from the downstream fuels and clean heat beat. Dispatches on federal, state and local building decarbonization, low-carbon fuel and geothermal policy coming at you soon. Go Bills.
December 29, 2024 at 9:35 PM
New boss, pictured here, has approved my return to work after 6 weeks away from the downstream fuels and clean heat beat. Dispatches on federal, state and local building decarbonization, low-carbon fuel and geothermal policy coming at you soon. Go Bills.