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Nick Cunningham
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The Constitution Pipeline has lost its commercial rationale, and is floundering. That comes despite political support from Trump and Dem governors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump-Backed Gas Pipeline to New York Struggles for CustomersWhen US President Donald Trump revived a long-stalled pipeline project to bring more natural gas to the Northeast, he vowed to use the force of the federal government to make it happen.www.bloomberg.comDropsite News reporting that 1) Ecuadorian official investigating US drone strikes on boats was assassinated 2) boat survivors were held and tortured by men in US military uniforms, and then rendered to El Salvador www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
Renewables surpass coal in global power sector In 2026, renewable energy is expected to generate more electricity around the world than coal. Gas-fired power remains flat. gasoutlook.com/analysis/ren...
Renewables surpass coal in global power sector - Gas OutlookIn 2026, renewable energy is expected to generate more electricity around the world than coal. Gas-fired power remains flat.gasoutlook.comRahm has gone from 0% to 0% since last October
Max BergerAOC leads a new poll of the 2028 New Hampshire presidential primary. scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...
Gas industry has known for decades that it had a methane problem, and a indoor air pollution problem. It downplayed those, and engaged in PR to depict gas as "clean" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Article)The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.www.nytimes.comUS gov is comically grotesque US ambassador to Italy will tour Italian cities in his $450 million yacht. Italian politicians/business execs will board to meet him. Yacht has swimming pool and helipad. Italy shoulders extra security costs This is US "diplomacy" www.ft.com/content/f577...
Trump envoy’s tour on $450mn superyacht stirs anger in ItalyRome declines to reveal cost of security for billionaire businessman Tilman Fertitta’s ‘coastal diplomacy’www.ft.comEU unveils the Electrification Action Plan - calls for the economy to reach 46 percent electrification by 2040, double current levels -key move is lower electricity tax so that elec is not taxed more than gas But lots of work ahead to solidify into law gasoutlook.com/analysis/eu-...
EU unveils electrification plan for security and competitiveness - Gas OutlookThe Electrification Action Plan calls for the economy to reach 46 percent electrification by 2040, double current levels. The plan would improve energy security, competitiveness, and lower energy cost...gasoutlook.comworth noting that LNG does not compete in the power sector in China, despite years of industry claims that LNG is "replacing" coal China has pursued a coal+renewables strategy www.reuters.com/graphics/IRA...
a must read. Great work as always Hilary!
Hilary BeaumontNEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...
Unacceptable. Existence of arrest quotas have been extensively reported on. here's wapo in January *2025* www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... And the Stephen Miller ramp up in May 2025 www.axios.com/2025/05/28/i...
Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrestsThe administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.www.washingtonpost.comSahil KapurANGUS KING says that pressure on ICE agents to meet an arrest quota has contributed to shootings like this one in Maine. SUSAN COLLINS, when asked about such pressure/quotas: “I would be concerned if I knew that to be true. But I have not heard that at all.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
xAI burning gas in 59 gas turbines to power data center in MS "The number of unpermitted turbines identified by Reuters is about double what xAI has publicly acknowledged" www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communitiesExploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.www.reuters.comLNG traffic through Hormuz grinds to a halt again gasoutlook.com/analysis/lng...
LNG traffic through Hormuz grinds to a halt again - Gas OutlookThe return of war and the battle for Hormuz could once again result in an extended outage. After several weeks of relative calm, volatility has returned to global oil and gas markets.gasoutlook.comEra of cheap U.S. gas to end — new analysis “As the highest-quality portions of Marcellus, Permian and Haynesville are developed, remaining inventory will be less productive and more geologically complex" gasoutlook.com/analysis/era...
Era of cheap U.S. gas to end — new analysis - Gas OutlookThe U.S. has become the largest LNG exporter in the world because of enormous volumes of cheap gas. But that may soon come to an end.gasoutlook.comGreat piece here
Julia SimonIn today's story about the ongoing Iran war, oil and gas analysts write: "If China's car industry were handing out a salesman of the year award for 2026 President Trump would be a leading contender." They're talking about Chinese EVs, folks. IEA projects oil demand to fall this year🛢️ More here ⬇️
cuts to Oregon Health Plan of $421 million, a little bit more than the $365 million the state wants to use to subsidize renovations at the Moda Center on behalf of its rich owners
OPBMajor cuts are coming to the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s free healthcare program covering 1.4 million children and low-income adults. But the group of experts Gov. Tina Kotek charged with minimizing the harm of those cuts has given her no definitive recommendations.