NEW: I traveled to Flint in anticipation of the 10 year anniversary of the start of the water crisis. I door knocked and spoke w/ folks at the library & local coney island spots. They all had the same response: The Flint Water Crisis is far from over.
capitalbnews.org/flint-water-cr…

White House senior adviser John Podesta said the Biden admin is going to release best practices for the voluntary carbon market to to help establish 'guardrails' to bring more confidence to the market, @POLITICO's Zack Colman reports. Story: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

Also in Global Playbook, interviews with Joseph E. Stiglitz WB chief Ajay Banga via Zack Colman and pressure on #Georgieva do deliver during next five-year term from ONE and others

#SpringMeetings

Berkeley Lab Clifford Krauss Jennifer Hiller Ivan Penn brad plumer ChristopherMMatthews Evan Halper Maxine Joselow Shannon Osaka Rebecca Smith Jeff Brady 900 gigawatts of new projects entered the queues in 2023, meaning nearly 2,600 GW of generation and storage capacity are now actively seeking grid interconnection. This is 8x higher than in 2010. 2/x

No Labels Will Abandon 2024 Presidential Campaign Effort wsj.com/politics/elect…

Many of the biggest new oil and gas fields from the past two years have been discovered by companies with net-zero targets.

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Environmental Defense Fund will lay off some US staff ow.ly/RcoI105nlqy

Xcel Energy acknowledges their involvement in the ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle.
New for Texas Tribune

texastribune.org/2024/03/07/xce…

Asking GOP politicians 'Do you support IVF?' is the wrong question.

Reporters have to ask: 'Do you support IVF *as it's commonly practiced in the U.S., which involves the production of excess fertilized embryos that are sometimes discarded*?'

politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

NEW - Michigan Dems fear Biden campaign isn't taking base voters, furious over Israel-Gaza, seriously enough.

'I feel like this is 2016 all over again.'

Spent time w/ 'Uncommitted' campaign, urging Dem primary voters to send Biden message on Tuesday:

politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

love it when the inbox unread hits an even number

Slowing electric car sales, anxious union workers and the president’s campaign difficulties in (the greatest state of) Michigan are complicating one of Biden's most ambitious climate policies.

politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

Environmental activists urging Biden to wage a stronger fight against climate change are facing an agonizing strategic decision: How hard can they push him without risking throwing the election to Trump? politico.com/news/2024/02/1…

Biden needs his young climate activists. But they’re angry about the war in Gaza. ow.ly/mi0K105eYQO

Incorrect.

We’re looking for a reporter to cover the companies, technologies, and VCs at the forefront of the energy transition for Heatmap News: heatmap.news/heatmap-is-hir…

been down bad since sunday but this helps.

What I've been telling young/aspiring journalists for years--(&, until now, only those who specifically ask me, because who the hell am I, really) is to find a job at a trade publication & fully embrace the expertise that comes from having to get really into the weeds.

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It takes a special kind of evil morons to screw up Literally Sports Illustrated this badly.