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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15d

Solar panel installations in China slowed again in August to hit the lowest since late 2022, as producers turned to overseas markets amid sluggish domestic demand

China’s Solar Installations Fall to Near Three-Year Low

Solar panel installations in China slowed again in August to hit the lowest in nearly three years, as producers turned to overseas markets amid sluggish domestic demand.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15d

President Donald Trump said his administration will use funds collected from tariffs to assist US farmers, who have thus far been hit hard by his trade policies

Trump Says Tariff Revenue Will Fund Relief for US Farmers

President Donald Trump said his administration will use funds collected from tariffs to assist beleaguered US farmers, who have thus far been hit hard by his trade policies.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17d

Chinese carmaker BYD just broke the speed record for a production car, and it's all electric. 308 mph.

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 19d

A good reminder to *have an earthquake kit*. Headlamp, gloves, water, protein, radio,🔋, chocolate

If you made one ages ago that canned food is expired

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San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social · 19d

M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 19d

Felt the shaking intensely in central Berkeley. Knocked a few things over but everyone is ok.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25d

“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.”

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 28d

ICYMI - News from late last night on the Trump administration seeking to void the permit of a Maryland offshore wind farm. 👇🏼

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28d

The Trump administration asked a federal court to cancel the approval of a $6 billion wind project planned off the coast of Maryland as part of a wider effort to halt the development of the offshore clean- energy resource.

Trump Files to Cancel Approval of Maryland Offshore Wind Farm

The Trump administration asked a federal court to cancel the approval of a $6 billion wind project planned off the coast of Maryland as part of a wider effort to halt the development of the offshore clean- energy resource.

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 28d

A thoughtful and important take on the online culture that pervades our lives 👇🏻

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 28d

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into.

For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · Sep 3

ICYMI👇🏼

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Sep 2

The Trump administration plans to reconsider a permit issued to a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, the latest move in its campaign to stymie the US offshore wind industry.

Trump to Review Approval of Wind Farm Off Massachusetts Coast

The Trump administration plans to reconsider a permit issued to a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, the latest move in its targeted campaign against the clean energy resource.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW: An anti-offshore wind group is targeting a Brown researcher who studies climate obstruction. It's not the first time they've done it, but there's a new twist: They're threatening to go to the Trump administration unless the university retracts the work

Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher

The group asked for the retraction of work led by Timmons Roberts and said it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 22

How can something like the Spanish blackout be prevented from happening again? Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi and Laura Millan discuss on the Zero podcast

The 100-Ton Rotating Mass That Can Stop Blackouts

How can something like the Spanish blackout be prevented from happening again? Bloomberg Green’s Laura Millan joins Zero to discuss.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 21

“This is a happy industry, and this is a pretty unhappy time to be in it.” Trump's tariffs add unexpected costs to Christmas decorations

Christmas Decorations Come With Higher Price Tag This Holiday Season Thanks to Tariffs

Higher levies already added millions of dollars in unexpected expenses in a sector that orders artificial trees and ornaments months ahead of time

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Aug 21

Vanguard suggests a 70% bond and 30% stock portfolio for the next decade, per BI

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 19

President Trump’s tariff war is accelerating Beijing’s trade and investment push into developing nations known as the Global South, according to research by S&P Global

Trump Tariffs Seen Fostering New China-Global South Trade Order

President Donald Trump’s tariff war is accelerating Beijing’s trade and investment push into developing nations known as the Global South, according to research by S&P Global, potentially creating a new trade order dominated by Chinese firms.

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW -> Solar stocks rose Friday after the Trump Administration issued guidance on the phase out of solar and wind tax breaks that wasn't as bad as feared. Story w/ @arinatter.bsky.social

🎁 Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Latest Attack on Wind and Solar Squeezes Tax Breaks

Clean energy stocks soared after the Trump administration released new guidance on eligibility requirements for tax credits that weren’t as punitive as the industry had feared.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · Aug 11

ICYMI 👇🏼

Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · Aug 8

Companies with a climate proposition are juggling a trade war, rolled back federal support, jittery investors, you name it.

Amid all the chaos, one industry has been propping up clean tech: artificial intelligence.

My latest with @mchediak.bsky.social:
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Money Is Raining Down on Green-Tech Firms That Have an AI Story

Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable of delivering round-the-clock electricity to power artificial intel...

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · Aug 7

ICYMI - Story with @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @arinatter.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s moves to stop #solar and #wind development and support other energy sources.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 7

The pace and range of the moves against renewables -- alongside several others that prop up fossil fuels and nuclear power -- have whipsawed wind and solar developers that had grown accustomed to federal support.

Trump's Latest Attacks Stun Wind and Solar Industries

President Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on wind and solar power from the rhetorical to the tangible, mounting a rapid-fire campaign that exceeds the industries’ worst fears.In just the past few weeks, the Trump administration instituted permitting reviews that threaten US wind and solar developments. It imposed standards that would essentially prevent new developments on federal land. It rescinded Biden-era decisions earmarking coastal waters for future wind turbines. And on Wednesday

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 7

Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report of today's top stories. Hear the latest news, updated throughout the day, covering global business stories in just a few minutes.

WH: Trump to Nominate Stephen Miran as Fed Governor - Bloomberg

Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report of today's top stories. Hear the latest news, updated throughout the day, covering global business stories in just a few minutes.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jul 30

I don’t think people are prepared for where this growing movement toward maximum partisan gerrymandering is headed

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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · Jul 30

Scoop -> California Governor Gavin Newsom pushing for legislation to shore up a state wildfire insurance fund for utilities that's at risk of being depleted after the deadly LA #wildfires. Story with California reporter Eliyahu Kamisher.

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Newsom Seeks $18 Billion for Utilities’ Wildfire Fund as California Faces Future Blazes

California Governor Gavin Newsom is circulating a legislative proposal to shore up a state fund for utilities that’s at risk of being depleted following the deadly wildfires that struck Los Angeles Co...

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Jul 30

I strongly advise media outlets and government officials who are confusing the meaning of these official statements issued by NOAA to refer to the official NOAA website that describes their intended meaning:
www.tsunami.gov/?pag...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · Jul 30

How common are earthquakes this big? Here are all of the events with a magnitude of 8.5 or larger since 1960: only ten of them!

Screencap of USGS earthquake search results, showing a map and the following earthquakes:
2025 8.8 Kamchatka
2012 8.6 Sumatra
2011 9.1 Japan
2010 8.8 Chile
2005 8.6 Indonesia
2004 9.1 Sumatra
1965 8.7 Aleutians
1964 9.2 Alaska
1963 8.5 Kamchatka
1960 9.5 Chile

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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · Jul 28

EPA will move tomorrow to revoke the endangerment finding, the foundation for all US climate regulations, and emissions limits for cars and trucks.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the announcement in Indiana.

w/ @chemnick.bsky.social

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POLITICO Pro: EPA to launch plan Tuesday for undoing climate rule cornerstone

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is planning to announce the move at an Indiana transportation facility.

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