Sarah Hall
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Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.
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NREL has produced 1000 patents and 50,000 publications and billions of dollars in economic benefit and the people in charge probably want to kill it
NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled.
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.
www.gravityisgone.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
NREL has produced 1000 patents and 50,000 publications and billions of dollars in economic benefit and the people in charge probably want to kill it
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Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
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Holy shit. NREL is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies?!
In the early days of DOGE people there were whispering about a name change to avoid the ire of MAGAs. It pissed me off - prioritizing the preservation of the institution at the expense of its state mission? So disappointing.
In the early days of DOGE people there were whispering about a name change to avoid the ire of MAGAs. It pissed me off - prioritizing the preservation of the institution at the expense of its state mission? So disappointing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Holy shit. NREL is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies?!
In the early days of DOGE people there were whispering about a name change to avoid the ire of MAGAs. It pissed me off - prioritizing the preservation of the institution at the expense of its state mission? So disappointing.
In the early days of DOGE people there were whispering about a name change to avoid the ire of MAGAs. It pissed me off - prioritizing the preservation of the institution at the expense of its state mission? So disappointing.
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It's also just really bizarre how an outlet like Fox is able to frame this as "entire women's soccer team goes crazy from woke" instead of "most female athletes see trans and intersex inclusion as a nonissue"
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It's also just really bizarre how an outlet like Fox is able to frame this as "entire women's soccer team goes crazy from woke" instead of "most female athletes see trans and intersex inclusion as a nonissue"
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Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
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DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was meant to
be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
How Trump gutted the team meant to build America’s energy future
The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations had over $25 billion to help companies scale novel low-carbon technologies. Trump is working to erase it.
www.canarymedia.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was meant to
be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
be a launchpad for ambitious projects that could help the U.S. lead on everything from decarbonizing factories to boosting rural energy resiliency. Now it's a shell of itself. My latest for @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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In Pam Bondi's America bakers may refuse to make cakes for gay or trans people, medical pros may refuse to provide women with complete healthcare, military personnel may refuse vaccination orders—all for "religous" or "conscience" reasons—but an Office Depot employee may not refuse to print a flyer.
Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’
Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk.
The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
In Pam Bondi's America bakers may refuse to make cakes for gay or trans people, medical pros may refuse to provide women with complete healthcare, military personnel may refuse vaccination orders—all for "religous" or "conscience" reasons—but an Office Depot employee may not refuse to print a flyer.
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The Administration’s cancellation of a near-complete wind power farm will raise the cost of your electricity bill. Every month, look at your bill. It’s too high and it’s going to go up because of this. For what?
A $5 billion wind farm project off the New England coast was 80% complete when it got the stop-work from the Trump administration. A small army of workers and suppliers are in limbo.
Trump’s War on Wind Has This Construction Crew Stuck 15 Miles Out at Sea
A $5 billion wind farm project off the New England coast was 80% complete when it got the stop-work from the Trump administration. A small army of workers and suppliers are in limbo.
on.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The Administration’s cancellation of a near-complete wind power farm will raise the cost of your electricity bill. Every month, look at your bill. It’s too high and it’s going to go up because of this. For what?
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The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry.
Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
September 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry.
Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
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Not the first to make this point, but it really is wild to see the administration declare an energy national emergency while simultaneously blocking so many projects that would provide local, abundant energy
Trump Plans to Block Development of Another Offshore Wind Farm
The Trump administration is working to halt development of an offshore wind project planned near Maryland, in the latest escalation of the White House’s war on the clean energy source loathed by the p...
www.bloomberg.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Not the first to make this point, but it really is wild to see the administration declare an energy national emergency while simultaneously blocking so many projects that would provide local, abundant energy
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"Don't worry. The states will still lead on climate action."
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Don't worry. The states will still lead on climate action."
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if they start threatening wind energy executives with jail time over bird deaths, just remember that oil pits kill three times as many birds per year, according to the federal government’s own data
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
if they start threatening wind energy executives with jail time over bird deaths, just remember that oil pits kill three times as many birds per year, according to the federal government’s own data
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The Trump Administration is waging an all-out war against wind power in the United States, attempting to ban a resource that provides over 1 in 10 kilowatt-hours nationwide and is a critical source of new supply required to meet surging demand.
Also in my scoop-filled wind feature today in @heatmap.news
Anti-wind advocates and renewables supporters alike say the Trump team is laying the groundwork to potentially rescind permits held by wind projects that are *currently providing electrons to the grid*
#greensky #energysky
Anti-wind advocates and renewables supporters alike say the Trump team is laying the groundwork to potentially rescind permits held by wind projects that are *currently providing electrons to the grid*
#greensky #energysky
Trump’s Total War on Wind Power
Since July 4, the federal government has escalated its assault on wind development to previously unimaginable heights.
heatmap.news
August 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Trump Administration is waging an all-out war against wind power in the United States, attempting to ban a resource that provides over 1 in 10 kilowatt-hours nationwide and is a critical source of new supply required to meet surging demand.
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Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program.
Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.
Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.
August 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program.
Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.
Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.
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How about high-speed rail on earth?
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How about high-speed rail on earth?
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A lot of the technical assistance work I did at NREL - which provided analyses of different energy technologies’ generating capacity and impacts on jobs and tax revenue - was predicated on the availability of federal lands for siting… especially in rural coal regions. All blown up.
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 2:28 AM
A lot of the technical assistance work I did at NREL - which provided analyses of different energy technologies’ generating capacity and impacts on jobs and tax revenue - was predicated on the availability of federal lands for siting… especially in rural coal regions. All blown up.
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DOE for cringiest department of Trump 2.0 by a landslide.
July 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
DOE for cringiest department of Trump 2.0 by a landslide.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is cutting funding for wind, solar, and electric vehicles despite a signed federal budget that preserved those levels, prompting accusations of unlawful spending violations. 😡😡😡
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is cutting funding for wind, solar, and electric vehicles despite a signed federal budget that preserved those levels, prompting accusations of unlawful spending vi...
www.dailyclimate.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is cutting funding for wind, solar, and electric vehicles despite a signed federal budget that preserved those levels, prompting accusations of unlawful spending violations. 😡😡😡
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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Really important.
"The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."
"The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
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I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
heatmap.news
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really important.
"The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."
"The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."
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What’s striking about the SCOTUS stay here is not just (!) the risk that the govt will ship people off to countries where they may face serious danger, but that the Court is tacitly rewarding the govt’s repeated defiance of the district court
Remember when Trump tried to deport people to South Sudan, right after he tried to deport people to Libya, right after he shipped people to Gitmo and then deported them to CECOT? All those were in the same case www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
June 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What’s striking about the SCOTUS stay here is not just (!) the risk that the govt will ship people off to countries where they may face serious danger, but that the Court is tacitly rewarding the govt’s repeated defiance of the district court
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Senator Heinrich with a spot-on summary of the Senate Finance bill's clean energy provisions: "a slightly mitigated disaster" in contrast to the "unmitigated disaster" that is the House bill. *chefs kiss*
June 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Senator Heinrich with a spot-on summary of the Senate Finance bill's clean energy provisions: "a slightly mitigated disaster" in contrast to the "unmitigated disaster" that is the House bill. *chefs kiss*