Thomas Catenacci
@ThomasCatenacci
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Reporter @FreeBeacon | [email protected] | Former: @FoxNews + @DailyCaller | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam
Washington, D.C.
Joined December 2016
NEWS: Today is my first day as a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon where I will continue covering all things energy/environment/climate. Thankful for my time at Fox News Digital, but so excited to join the incredible team at the Beacon.
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NEW: A French-owned firm that works with Chinese military companies to prop up Beijing’s nuclear industry is bidding for a $900 million federal contract to provide uranium to America’s nuclear plants. That’s prompting national security concerns from lawmakers and experts who
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Your Jeep deserves more than just a traditional lift kit — it deserves an AccuAir Dynamic Lift Kit.
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NEW: The Trump admin just ordered all offshore wind projects to halt construction over national security concerns. The order impacts 5 projects being built. Biden permitted 11 offshore wind projects overall. Now, just one remains fully constructed—and it powers just 70k homes.
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For more on the Energy Foundation China, read our latest here: https://t.co/XI5adGBlsm
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A group led by former Chinese government officials increased its financial support for green energy initiatives at American universities in 2024, according to newly released tax filings obtained by...
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A group of 26 state AGs is asking the DOJ to investigate whether the climate group Energy Foundation China has violated FARA. The AGs cite our @FreeBeacon reporting that the group is based in Beijing and run by CCP officials, but gives millions to US climate/anti-oil projects.
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The other great part of this story is Team Moore's response deriding our "obsession" with "investigative pieces on what school he filmed a campaign ad on education nearly four years ago." Guilty as charged!
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Height of Hypocrisy’: Wes Moore Filmed Campaign Ad Praising Maryland Public Schools — Inside His Kids’ Elite Private School https://t.co/vOQwU6rHy6
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NEW: Stacey Abrams’s climate group, Rewiring America, pocketed more than $5 million in federal funds before the Trump administration killed the grant, according to new tax filings.
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Come meet the most famous trader on Wall Street! @EinsteinoWallSt will be at the Diplomat Hotel. Jam 29-Feb 1.
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New from @ThomasCatenacci on the Stacey Abrams-linked NGO, Power Forward Communities, that made $100 in total revenue in 2023 and then got a $2 BILLION grant from the Biden EPA: Of the money Power Forward Communities received from the Biden EPA by the end of last year, “more
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Rewiring America, the climate group where Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel, quietly banked more than $5 million in federal climate funding shortly before the Trump adminis...
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NEW from me Chinese Investment Firm Funded By Yale and Princeton Buys Slice of Shanghai Tech Company That Works With China's Military https://t.co/FXcFsLfoJz
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A Chinese investment firm—lavishly funded by some of the United States' most elite institutions, including Yale and Princeton universities—has purchased part of a biotech business that works with the...
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News: A federal judge just overturned Michigan Gov. Whitmer's 2020 order shutting down the 645-mile Line 5 oil pipeline. Line 5 transports 540,000 barrels of oil a day and supplies 55% of Michigan’s propane. W/o Line 5, the region would be short ~14.7M gallons of fuel a day.
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As part of the action, DOE is also canceling a $299M award for methane emissions reductions, $201M for a state community program, and $56M for an "energy efficiency" program boosting electric over gas use.
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Scoop: Department of Energy sources tell me the agency is scrapping $615M in Biden-era green funding earmarked for Colorado. That includes a $257M grant for the Colorado state energy office which focuses on equity and links "between climate change, energy, and social justice."
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The candidate who just won @JoshShapiroPA's official endorsement:
Bob Brooks is a firefighter who has spent his life standing up for working people and running towards danger to keep Pennsylvanians safe. Bob is the fighter we need in Congress — and I’m proud to endorse him. Join @VoteBobBrooks in the fight to lower costs and GSD.
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NEW: In early Nov, I asked Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for a copy of his Oxford thesis, which he once claimed made him a "foremost expert" on radical Islam. Moore couldn't produce it. And now, he's preemptively accusing me of spreading a "conspiracy" for reporting why it's missing.
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EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student Big @AndrewKerrNC scoop:
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Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President...
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🚨Anybody who considers Wes Moore a prospective 2028 presidential candidate should read this. The Maryland governor claims to have earned his masters degree from Oxford in 2003. And also in 2004. Oxford says it was Nov 2005.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Energy is preparing to finance up to 10 nuclear power plants in an effort to usher in a nuclear energy “renaissance.” That’s what Energy Secretary Chris Wright told @ThomasCatenacci in an exclusive interview at Idaho National Laboratory, a
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🚨Trump admin to finance 10 nuclear reactors @ThomasCatenacci exclusive from latest dispatch to Idaho https://t.co/7OA0VB0N6S
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EXCLUSIVE via @ThomasCatenacci: Trump Energy Department To Finance Up to 10 Nuclear Reactors in Bid To Kickstart Nuclear Energy 'Renaissance'
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho—The Trump Department of Energy is preparing to finance up to 10 advanced domestic nuclear power projects as part of its aggressive effort to usher in a nuclear energy "renaissanc...
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Funny. The org that Drop Site exposes here is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation. So is Drop Site. Strange bedfellows, I guess.
💥NEW: How PM Keir Starmer’s Machine Quietly Moved to Cripple Breitbart, The Federalist, ZeroHedge, and Left Independent Outlets On Breaking Points, Ryan introduces Drop Site’s latest investigation, adapted from Paul Holden’s book, exposing how Keir Starmer and his chief of
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The SPEED Act was introduced in the House more than four months ago as the result of robust, bipartisan permitting talks on the Hill. If Senators are “finding out about this for the first time,” they haven’t been paying attention.
Congratulations to “American Clean Power” for cutting a deal with the American Petroleum Institute, but to enact a law both the House and the Senate have to agree, and Senators are finding out about this for the first time.
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