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Jonathan Mingle

@jmingle.bsky.social

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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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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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

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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.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

"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 · 11d

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 · 13d

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) ...

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 14d

Page One in Cincinnati.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

"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 · 15d

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

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 19d

Thanks. Hope you enjoy it!

Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 20d

Widespread confusion about natural gas convinced me to, uh, write a book on the subject.

And to devote its first two pages to tackling that confusion head-on.

Most Americans don't think natural gas is a fossil fuel.

Most also don't know that it is primarily *methane.*

That's not an accident.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20d

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 21d

a man with a beard is standing in the woods holding a sword .

ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the woods holding a sword .

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 23d

"They’re taking the technologies that have added 85% of everything that was added to the grid last year and predicted to be added over the next 3 years and saying, 'We are going to have a high-profile war against these technologies.'"
—@jigarshahdc.bsky.social

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Kathleen J. Frydl @kfrydl.bsky.social · 25d

“With this move, they’re taking away the practical and material capacity of the federal government to do the basic elements of climate policymaking”

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 27d

wrote a book about how grassroots folks in rural Virginia defeated 2 huge energy firms' 600-mile fossil gas pipeline. won some awards but more importantly several friends+family who self-describe as 'not big readers' read the whole. damn. thing.

most importantly, I built this timber frame woodshed:

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