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Jonathan Mingle

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climate/energy journalist author of GASLIGHT and FIRE AND ICE words in @nytimes.com @nybooks.com @yalee360.bsky.social @undark.org and more website: jonathanmingle.com signal contact: jmingle.74

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · Feb 19

I'm truly honored that my book GASLIGHT has been named winner of the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award presented by @selc.bsky.social.

Its David v. Goliath tale of grassroots power overcoming corporate energy interests seems more relevant than ever.

www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...

Celebrating the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award winners

The Southern Environmental Law Center congratulates this year’s winners of its 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award. Through their work, winners Jonathan Mingle, Jared Kofsky, Maia Rosenfe...

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 12h

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 1d

And if you want a quick summary of WHY this race (and other public utility commission elections/appointments) is so important, I've got you covered:

www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/o...

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 1d

Back in 2022 @simonmahan.bsky.social told me*:

"I know folks who know Congress reps’ phone # by heart but they don’t know the PUC even exists."

Maybe this Georgia election will also be an inflection point for public awareness of PUCs' huge power.

*for this piece:
www.nybooks.com/online/2022/...

The Groaning Grid | Jonathan Mingle

One could be forgiven for thinking that it’s only Senator Joe Manchin who gets to decide these things, but here’s a little-known fact: precisely 201

www.nybooks.com

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 1d

Public utility commissions — so hot right now.

This one goes straight to the top of my listening queue.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2d

NEW @ember-energy.org report out today | Renewables now produce more electricity than coal worldwide ⚡️

Renewables produced 5,072 TWh (34.4% share) in the first half of 2025 overtaking coal for the first time which stood at 4,896 TWh (33.1%.)

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 2d

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Adding more wind and solar to the grid have one guaranteed effect: They make electricity more expensive."

US Energy Information Administration: "Nope that's wrong"

EIA data show that states with more renewables have lower electricity prices.

Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA’s energy narrative erodes quickly:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

www.politico.com

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 10d

I know there's a lot going on.

But this really deserves more attention:

"Trump administration ... officials want to decommission and possibly destroy two NASA satellites that monitor greenhouse gases and cost more than $800 million to launch."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem

www.nytimes.com

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 10d

My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social:
Can Trump's Energy Dominance/trade war agenda overcome market forces (oversupply+softening demand) + other countries' climate/energy security concerns to keep US LNG booming past 2030?
Plenty of analysts find reasons for skepticism.

e360.yale.edu/features/tru...

It’s a 'Golden Age' for U.S. LNG Industry, But Climate Risks Loom

Under the Trump administration’s policies, new liquefied natural gas terminals are moving ahead, with exports of LNG expected to double by 2028. But as the U.S. pressures trade partners to buy more fo...

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 10d

Energy Secretary Wright made tens of millions of dollars as the CEO of a fracking company, so he certainly knows that the natural gas he brought to market is the primary cause of the decline of the coal industry.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 11d

Now on the Energy Dept’s banned words list: “Climate change,” “green” and “emissions.”

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 13d

If India really wants to be seen as a climate leader, its government might want to reconsider today's decision to arrest Sonam Wangchuk, the country's most prominent climate activist.

www.ndtv.com/india-news/c...

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 13d

"Perhaps GOP lawmakers are betting that voters won’t connect the dots and punish them for spiking energy bills... But it would be foolish to assume that rolling blackouts and spiking electricity bills will fail to produce any political backlash."

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 13d

And about how the Big Beautiful Bill is going to drive electricity prices even higher, in every single state:

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15d

New statement from WHO:

"The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy." www.who.int/news/item/24...

WHO statement on autism-related issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...

www.who.int

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 15d

Your electricity bill is going to give the price of gas at the pump a run for its money in 2026 as the most politically important election-year number.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

Page One in Cincinnati.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 16d

Trump's unexpected contribution (carbon emissions trajectory forecast?) to Climate Week in NYC:

"Your countries are going to hell."

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Live Updates: Trump Attacks U.N. and Lectures Nations in Address to General Assembly

www.nytimes.com

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 16d

"Outspoken business leaders have suddenly lost their tongues. Since they have the most to lose, those with power and wealth are among the softest targets."

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16d

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 17d

Happy Climate Week to those who celebrate.

"Governments say they will cut their own climate-warming pollution, yet they plan to continue producing the fossil fuels that are driving that pollution far beyond what their climate targets would allow."

insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets - Inside Climate News

A report finds that the top producers of coal, gas and oil are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030 than they were two years ago.

insideclimatenews.org

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 20d

amen. it takes as long as it takes.
and because it takes so much time/effort (and financial opportunity cost) i've concluded that the only reason to pursue this kind of project is if you cannot imagine NOT doing it.
it starts to exert its own gravity.

(really looking forward to reading your book!)

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 21d

Love this.
Roger Shattuck's old house is just a couple miles from my own here in rural VT. I drive almost every day past the field where he used a scythe to make hay. A SCYTHE. Dude even won the hand-mowing contest at our county fair. Legend.

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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 21d

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year than car crashes. It’s about to get worse.

The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks. Hope you enjoy it!