Anti-Mask Sentiment Is Making It Hard to Protect People From Wildfire Smoke The COVID-era political divide is still having ripple effects.

For @heatmap.news today, I wrote about this problem and how — given the low snowpack and the bad fire season we're almost certainly in for — breaking through that stigma will be life-or-death. heatmap.news/masks-wildfi...

Check out Heatmap's founding executive editor @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on @volts.wtf!

Exclusive: Where We’re At in the Race to Save the Planet Investor and philanthropist John Doerr shares a refresh to his Speed & Scale climate action tracker.

New this morning from @kbrigham.bsky.social, an EXCLUSIVE on the latest update to the Speed & Scale climate action tracker:

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Trump’s $1 Billion TotalEnergies Deal Is ‘Worthless’ On Eli Lilly’s nuclear, Sunrise Wind, and Brazil’s minerals

TODAY in Heatmap AM:

🛢️ Oil prices jump as Iran War ceasefire crumbles
🔖 Trump’s billion dollar deal with TotalEnergies “worthless” to taxpayers, document shows
💊 Eli Lilly joins nuclear energy rush

Start your week with the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

New documents reveal the U.S. deal with TotalEnergies canceling offshore wind leases actually required no new investment from the company, contradicting the Trump admin’s claims it will lead to new fossil fuel investments

Via @heatmap.news @emilypont.bsky.social

New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

Trump’s offshore wind deal didn't actually require new investment from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

bill gates' climate-tech VC, breakthrough energy ventures, recently backed a startup building quantum computers for AI. in this week's installment of funding friday, i ask: is that really climate tech? and more!

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Carbon Removal After Microsoft Though the tech giant did not say its purchasing pause is permanent, the change will have lasting ripple effects.

What happens to an industry when 80% of its market suddenly dries up?

That’s the question @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social set out to answer after his scoop on Microsoft pausing its carbon removal purchases.

Read what he found out here:

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The Nation’s Biggest Renewables Project Ever Comes Online On Minnesota mining, DAC being back, and desalination dividends

In Heatmap AM today:

🌬️ SunZia, the largest U.S. renewable project ever, comes online
🛶 Senate votes to open Minnesota Boundary Waters to mining
↩️ Energy Department brings back DAC, funding two hubs

Cap off your week with the low-down from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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This American Nuclear Startup Aims to Supply India’s Reactor Boom Chicago-based Clean Core is set to announce a pilot deal to manufacture thorium-based fuel.

SCOOP for @heatmap.news: The democratic world's leading effort to commercialize thorium energy just took a big step forward.

Clean Core Thorium Energy has inked a deal with the Canadian National Labs to produce its first commercial products.

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The Data Center Transmission Brawls Are Just Getting Started What happens when one of energy’s oldest bottlenecks meets its newest demand driver?

Massive hyperscaler data centers can demand cities worth of power.

I spent the last few weeks trying to understand how the grid will keep up with them. What I learned is that we're all about to fight over that too, very soon.

My latest feature for @heatmap.news

Scoop: How Trump Is Paying Off TotalEnergies New documents add to doubt over President Trump’s deal to buy back the multinational energy company’s U.S. offshore wind leases.

SCOOP from @emilypont.bsky.social:

New documents show how the Trump administration is planning to fund its deal with TotalEnergies, raising new questions about the agreement’s legality

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Inertia Enterprises Links With Livermore Lab to Commercialize Fusion Energy The deal represents one of the largest public-private partnerships in the history of the national labs.

Lawrence Livermore National Lab is still the only fusion lab to achieve scientific breakeven.

Now, the lab is partnering with Inertia Enterprises to commercialize the technology by the 2040s.

@kbrigham.bsky.social has the story:

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Scoop: Iran War Has Already Cost Americans $17 Billion At the Pump “It’s coming right out of your pocket.”

NEW: In addition to the human cost, Brown University researchers found that Trump’s war on Iran has already cost the U.S. economy roughly $17 billion—a number that will continue to increase the longer this pointless conflict continues. @heatmap.news

Trump Withholds NOAA Grants On California geothermal, Vineyard Wind, and Congolese metals

TODAY in Heatmap AM:

🔙 Trump admin withholds funding from NOAA grants
🏛️ Energy Secretary Wright set for congressional hearing Wednesday
💰 Customs and Border Protection details tariff refund plan

Browse the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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How Virginia, Texas, and Other States Are Starting to Regulate Data Centers Though the issue already dominates U.S. politics, policymaking has lagged behind.

The politics of data centers has been largely at the local level. Now, it's rising to the level of state governors. I talked with @jael.bsky.social of @heatmap.news on what states are starting to do: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

Trump Threatens His Own Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz On Hungary’s political earthquake, mining in Argentina, and the Sam Altman attack

In today’s Heatmap AM:

🚢 Trump threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary could disrupt nuclear project
🧊 Argentina modifies glacier protection law to promote mining

Start your week with the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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NEW:

Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases

The tech giant has been the overwhelming buyer of carbon removal technologies, accounting for 90%+ of industry volume last year. Now sources tell me it’s pausing its voluntary buying.

a @heatmap.news exclusive

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In Friday’s Heatmap AM:

🗳️Clean energy supporters win control of Arizona’s biggest utility
💰Iran War has cost Americans $17 billion on gas
💧Scientists at Princeton map out U.S. groundwater

Conclude your week with the latest from
@alexckaufman.bsky.social:

The Iran war has cost the U.S. economy roughly $17 billion solely by increasing prices for gasoline and diesel fuel, a new analysis finds.

Why the Iran Ceasefire Hasn’t Ended the Energy Crisis Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer · April 9 · 49m

On this EMERGENCY SHIFT KEY episode:

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social talks with @roryjohnston.bsky.social about the ceasefire with Iran, whether it can actually hold, and where global energy policy goes from here.

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New Jersey Legalizes Nuclear On BYD slavery, a deep sea mining giant, and H2 woes

NEW in Heatmap AM:

☢️ New Jersey repeals moratorium on new nuclear reactors
🇧🇷 Brazil adds BYD to its “dirty list” for poor labor conditions
🤝 Two deep-sea mining firms merge to form $1B giant

Read @alexckaufman.bsky.social for all the latest:

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New exclusive up on @heatmap.news this morning:

Energy Vault has pivoted from long-duration storage to just storage in general. Now the Swiss-Californian company is making a bid for the Japanese market at just the moment when East Asia is in an energy crisis.

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China Is the Big Winner of the Iran Ceasefire The losers are myriad and most definitely include Gulf oil producers.

China is the big winner of the Iran ceasefire, @zeitlin.bsky.social writes.

Read all about the other winners — and a few losers, too — in his story below:

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Trump Finally Found a Carbon Tax He Can Love A toll on oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz isn’t technically a carbon tax ... but it also isn’t not.

A toll on the Strait of Hormuz isn’t technically a carbon tax, but ... it still kind of is?

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social does the math of what Trump’s latest astounding act of climate policy means:

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Trump and Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire On oil taxes, Indian nuclear, and Germany hydropower

In Heatmap AM today:

🇮🇷 Iran, Trump agree to two-week ceasefire
✅ EPA finalizes changes to Biden-era methane rule
💰 U.S. oil majors pay most of their taxes to other countries

Get the full picture on these stories and more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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The End of Range Anxiety Is in Sight Who even wants to drive more than 400 miles without taking a break to recharge — literally or metaphorically?

The first EVs with 400 miles of range are getting release dates, which stands to resolve one of EVs' biggest pain points.

Because after all, as @andrewmoseman.bsky.social writes, who even wants to drive 400 miles without a break?

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Will Trump Bomb Iran’s Power Plants? On data center politics, plastics, and Polestar’s American factory

Today in Heatmap AM:

⏱️ Trump’s deadline to bomb Iran’s power plants approaches
💵 White House budget continues war on renewables
⏩ U.S. plastics manufacturers are in overdrive

Read up on the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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The Total Wreckage of Trump’s Energy Policy The U.S. and Israel’s war of choice has already destroyed many things, including the president’s domestic energy strategy.

The Iran War has broken the bargain that Trump promised to strike between American consumers and the oil industry — and its left his energy policy dead in the water. I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

If you haven't subscribed to @heatmap.news yet, you should probably fix that.

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