The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet The biomass industry is warming up the South's economy, but many experts worry it's doing the same to the climate. Will the Biden Administration embrace it, or cut it loose?

Oh yeah

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Burning trees for energy is as bad as burning crops for energy. New paper by the protagonist of a recent book!

Federal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under Trump The administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration.

Trump has a new biofuels-boosting policy. It’s terrible for consumers, the climate, the hungry, and the country, writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social.

By the way, very few of the Bluesky Climate Warriors - the hall monitors who chastise all deviations from their maximalist rhetoric as climate denial - have much to say about this significant and metastasizing threat to the climate.

If someone leaked an internal document about the president believing something this insane it would be a scandal, but since he just says it everyone’s like huh weird ok whatever.

Another crystal clear banger form @mikegrunwald.bsky.social . Biofuels have gone from maybe plausible and politically tough to fight to clearly terrible and somewhat easier to fight. Long past time for climate folks and enviros to focus.

Will @nrdc.org (hi @manishbapna.bsky.social) and
@envdefensefund.bsky.social (hi Fred Krupp) and
@worldwildlife.org (hi Carter Roberts) ever join the fight against this massive and growing threat to the global environment? Or are they too 🐓 to take on 🌽?

A few liberal Dems (like Sen. Peter Welch) and a few Big Oil Dems (like Rep. Henry Cuellar) have stood up to the biofuel lobby but the rest of the party has caved. I singled out Sen. Klobuchar and Gov. Pritzker but they at least have a semi-excuse, what's wrong with Dems outside the Corn Belt?

Yes, you guys have been great - I quoted Drew in the book talking about how he supported them until the new science changed his mind. More groups should do that!

I once tried to argue with Sherrod about this. I'll just say that he's no worse than other Midwestern Dems!

“The badness is bipartisan”

Can't find anything on the websites of @nrdc.org or @envdefensefund.bsky.social or @worldwildlife.org or @nature.org about Trump's latest assault on tens of millions of acres of wilderness. They don't want to offend farmers!

Credit where it's due: @earthjustice.org,
@biologicaldiversity.org, @foeus.bsky.social and
@worldresources.bsky.social are all calling out the environmental awfulness of Trump's biofuel boondoggles. But the silence from America's other green groups is deafening.

Federal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under Trump The administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration.

I wrote about how Trump is making America's terrible biofuel policies even worse - and how most Democrats and environmentalists are too afraid to fight back. @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

Opinion | Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.

Here are gift links for the columns:

A defense of Roundup: nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
An attack on Trump's farm policies: nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
A clowning of USDA:
nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

A cool honor, my @nytimes essays won first place for column writing from the North American Agricultural Journalists. Also Story of the Year! www.naaj.net/2026-naaj-wr...

Workshopping more oppo:

The pope only cares about thee/thou.
The pope literally drives around in a bubble.
The pope thinks he's infallible.
The immigrant pope is letting foreigners invade the Vatican.

We're at war to open the strait that was open before the war.
OK we'll stop the war and you can toll the strait.
We're back at war with you, and also anyone who pays your toll.

Climate hawks and climate realists and everyone who cares about the climate ought to embrace the Al Davis strategy: Just win, baby. libertiesjournal.com/articles/cli...

To borrow @volts.wtf ’s fancy philosophy words, it’s a reliable heuristic!

Can confirm! @sentientmedia.org sentientmedia.org/how-does-agr...

It does seem obvious to me but hey, my career has mostly consisted of pointing out obvious stuff hidden in plain sight.

You didn’t read the piece. Or even the excerpts I posted!

😍😍😍

Credit where it’s due!

No more Ivory Soap environmentalism.

The punchline

The nut graf

Here’s the link. There’s one foolproof strategy for climate progress - @volts.wtf calls it One Weird Trick - but it’s awkward for a lot of us to admit it.

libertiesjournal.com/articles/cli...

I wrote the lead essay in the new Liberties Journal about climate policy and politics in the Trump era. The orange man is very bad. But the climate movement hasn’t always faced the implications of his badness.