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Corbin Hiar

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Climate and business reporter at POLITICO's E&E News. Also a dad, cyclist, PEN Guild supporter and lapsed Minnesotan. Email: [email protected] | Signal: CorbinHiar.80

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · Jul 27

EXCLUSIVE: A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted test of a cloud-making machine.  

But behind the scenes, they were planning a larger and potentially riskier study of tech that could dim the sun's rays, internal documents show. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.

Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel.

www.politico.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 6h

Strong defense of organized labor from one of Trump's top Silicon Valley supporters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

ANDREESSEN: "The employment shifts everybody’s worried about are .. not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think .. because a significant percentage of jobs in the U.S. are licensed or unionized .. in a way where they literally cannot be replaced.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1c...

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley

YouTube video by Stripe

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

Another month of US transit agency data is just in, and DC's WMATA remains the fastest-growing major US transit agency, with ridership up 13% compared to last year

King County Metro (Seattle) & SEPTA (Philly) have also performed well, while LA Metro & NJTransit have lost riders

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 2d

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto announces that she’s running for D.C. delegate to Congress, becoming the second member of the D.C. Council looking to replace longtime Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. (At-Large Councilmember Robert White is also running.)

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 5d

Energy Secretary Wright and Interior Secretary Burgum have both cited "pollution" from offshore wind turbines as one of the reasons they need to be scrutinized or shut down.

Joe Lyou @jklyou.bsky.social · 5d

Chevron refinery in El Segundo exploded and burned last night. Here's the view from my house. Some things to know. 🧵

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 5d

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 5d

I live in Ward 4, Pinto represents Ward 2, but this showed up in my mailbox.

When a DC council member sends mailers to residents who aren't her constituents... she's definitely eyeing higher office.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 6d

A good way to honor, and understand, the global impact of Jane Goodall. RIP films.nationalgeographic.com/jane-the-movie

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 7d

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards.

Tell POLITICO management to follow it's own rules for accurate, ethical journalism and sign our petition.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 7d

New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 8d

The European Union's basic research funding program this year had a 400 percent increase in applications from U.S.-based academics.

“Thanks to Trump we are seeing this brain gain,” said the president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

www.politico.eu

Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 8d

The artificial intelligence hype cycle is off the charts. Literally.

AI deals now account for a record 63 percent of all venture capital investments in the past year, according to data compiled by PitchBook. pitchbook.com/news/article...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

DALLAS FED Manufacturing Survey:

“.. I may have to close the company. Orders have stopped coming in, and we do not know why.”

“.. all we can attribute it to is the crazy tariff-induced environment we are living in.”

www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 12d

Typically measured commentary from a Trump administration spokesperson: “Can’t say this is very ‘newsy.’ However, love to see fundraising dollars going towards pitching the E&E News echo chamber on this radical climate group’s antics.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Disruptive climate activists retool for Trump era

“The terrain is getting harder, but we are going to bring that exact same energy to the fight,” said the leader of the group Climate Defiance.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14d

Page One in Cincinnati.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14d

Donald Trump and Republicans fought hard to build this 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It’s paying dividends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15d

“Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.”

Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 15d

🔥 “It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far.”

Ukraine’s drone strike campaign against Russia’s oil refineries has left Russian fuel exports approaching their lowest level since 2020, disrupting a key source of revenue for the Kremlin. www.ft.com/content/8f8c...

Russian fuel exports drop as Ukraine intensifies its strikes on oil refineries

Kyiv accelerates drone campaign aimed at reducing Moscow’s ability to fund its war

www.ft.com

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16d

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

www.science.org

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 16d

Climate Action Tracker has downgraded the US's climate action under Trump from insufficient to critically insufficient, "in the most significant rollback of policies the project has ever analysed."

USA

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 16d

The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

Graphic showing Earth during the June solstice and September equinox. At the equinox, sunlight is evenly distributed along the equator. Text notes Fall Equinox 2025 occurs Sept 22 at 2:19 pm EDT.

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 17d

Washington's professional men's soccer team, which had been unbeaten under a new coach, faced off against one of the greatest players of all time... And the Washington Post gave the match a three-paragraph write up.