Brian Hubbell
@hubbell.bsky.social
Ex-legislature, current Maine state policy advisor: appropriations, energy, climate, science, R&D, and the built environment. Born at 314 ppm.
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Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power #CBarchive
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December 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power #CBarchive
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You know a great way to drive up energy costs?
Have the government block energy projects that have already been under construction for years, forcing companies to take billion dollar losses while delivering no energy at all.
Have the government block energy projects that have already been under construction for years, forcing companies to take billion dollar losses while delivering no energy at all.
There will be litigation, but realistically this could well mark the end of any new offshore wind projects in the USA until Trump leaves office.
Multiple gigawatts of wind power at sites already under construction are likely to be abandoned.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/c...
Multiple gigawatts of wind power at sites already under construction are likely to be abandoned.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump suspends all large offshore wind farms under construction, threatening thousands of jobs and cheaper energy | CNN
In the latest blow for the US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration announced Monday it is suspending the federal leases for all large offshore wind projects currently under construction, c...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You know a great way to drive up energy costs?
Have the government block energy projects that have already been under construction for years, forcing companies to take billion dollar losses while delivering no energy at all.
Have the government block energy projects that have already been under construction for years, forcing companies to take billion dollar losses while delivering no energy at all.
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Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work
The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.
heatmap.news
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
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I am here for this sitting Congressman eviscerating a truly annoying pundit.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am here for this sitting Congressman eviscerating a truly annoying pundit.
Pretty much the same way as dismantling smoke detectors fixes "fire alarmism."
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/t...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR
Federal lawmakers representing Colorado called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.”
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Pretty much the same way as dismantling smoke detectors fixes "fire alarmism."
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/t...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/t...
Born in an America that enjoyed immense benefits owed to alliances stemming from the Marquis de Lafayette through the Marshall Plan, I now wonder what future could ever reconstruct a bipartisan belief in common economic good of spending 3% of GDP on foreign aid.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision
Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Born in an America that enjoyed immense benefits owed to alliances stemming from the Marquis de Lafayette through the Marshall Plan, I now wonder what future could ever reconstruct a bipartisan belief in common economic good of spending 3% of GDP on foreign aid.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
With rare primary endorsement, environmental PAC backs Hannah Pingree for Maine governor mainemorningstar.com/briefs/with-...
With rare primary endorsement, environmental PAC backs Hannah Pingree for Maine governor • Maine Morning Star
A key environmentally-focused political group in Maine is backing Hannah Pingree for governor. Maine Conservation Voters Action Fund announced its support for the Democrat at a news conference…
mainemorningstar.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Excerpt from Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' (1/2):
Septimus:
So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.
Valentine:
The heat goes into the mix.
Thomasina:
Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.
Septimus:
So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.
Valentine:
The heat goes into the mix.
Thomasina:
Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Excerpt from Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' (1/2):
Septimus:
So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.
Valentine:
The heat goes into the mix.
Thomasina:
Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.
Septimus:
So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.
Valentine:
The heat goes into the mix.
Thomasina:
Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.
To redeem the moral soul of our country, we need trials right up the full height of the command stack for this.
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wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
To redeem the moral soul of our country, we need trials right up the full height of the command stack for this.
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
This is a good endorsement list which I'm proud to join as a former legislator.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
#MEpolitics
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
#MEpolitics
I’m honored to have the support of more than 100 current and former Maine legislators and elected officials from all across the State. I couldn’t be more proud to have their support in this Governor’s race as we continue to build momentum to win this important campaign.
Endorsements - Hannah Pingree for Governor
Speaker Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, Speaker of the House
hannahforgovernor.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is a good endorsement list which I'm proud to join as a former legislator.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
#MEpolitics
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
#MEpolitics
This is a good endorsement list which I'm proud to join as a former legislator.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
I’m honored to have the support of more than 100 current and former Maine legislators and elected officials from all across the State. I couldn’t be more proud to have their support in this Governor’s race as we continue to build momentum to win this important campaign.
Endorsements - Hannah Pingree for Governor
Speaker Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, Speaker of the House
hannahforgovernor.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is a good endorsement list which I'm proud to join as a former legislator.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
I have confidence in Hannah's values and her proven record of policy accomplishments for the state. Maine will greatly benefit from her experience and leadership. Good things ahead on this course.
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scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed
Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.
heatmap.news
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Biff Brewster revival
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Biff Brewster revival
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
About 200 filling both sides of the Narraguagus bridge in tiny Cherryfield, Maine #NoKings #MEpolitics
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MIT retains integrity.
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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October 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
MIT retains integrity.
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/rfDct2VtkYyI...
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Penobscot Narrows, Maine
Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Switching off the headlights now because the highway curves are biased.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
This administration has had some real success responding to Maine's urgent need for much more affordable housing - and there's important continuing work to be done in this area. Glad to see Hannah highlighting this in her gubernatorial campaign. #MEpolitics
Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/10/h...
Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’ • Maine Morning Star
Democratic candidate Hannah Pingree said making affordable housing accessible to more Mainers needs to be a top issue for whoever becomes the state’s next governor.
mainemorningstar.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This administration has had some real success responding to Maine's urgent need for much more affordable housing - and there's important continuing work to be done in this area. Glad to see Hannah highlighting this in her gubernatorial campaign. #MEpolitics
Maysles Brothers' Little Women
Nora Ephron's Un Chien Andalou
Disney/Pixar's The Exorcist
September 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Maysles Brothers' Little Women
Offshore wind projects, now blocked by the current federal government, could have reduced New England's wholesale electric costs by 11%, saving consumers $400M per year.
Who benefits from the status quo?
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Who benefits from the status quo?
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renew-ne.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Offshore wind projects, now blocked by the current federal government, could have reduced New England's wholesale electric costs by 11%, saving consumers $400M per year.
Who benefits from the status quo?
renew-ne.org/wp-content/u...
Who benefits from the status quo?
renew-ne.org/wp-content/u...
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
August 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's not complicated. There's a straight line between these two events with a common purpose of converting increased American consumers' energy costs into profits for politically-connected fossil fuel companies.
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This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands
The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.
heatmap.news
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...