Jennifer A. Dlouhy
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@Bloomberg reporter #energy #environment #oil #gas #wind #solar #climate [email protected] https://t.co/X0knS7tdqW https://t.co/atWc3L3HAR RT≠endorsements
Joined May 2010
Breaking: Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.
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Scoop: President Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House.
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Texas was warned it needed to heat pipes, insulate control panels & take other steps to keep producing power amid bitter cold after Arctic blasts in 2011 and 1989. It's happened again. w @AriNatter.
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Trump's Interior Dept is bringing furloughed employees back on the job to prepare sales of offshore .#oil drilling rights, arguing that failing to hold the auctions would have a negative impact on the federal treasury & investment in the Gulf of Mexico.($)
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“Federal action is necessary to stop the further premature retirements of fuel-secure generation capacity,” says a 41-page draft memo obtained by Bloomberg and circulated before a National Security Council meeting on the subject Friday.
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Memo outlines plan for DOE to direct operators to purchase electricity or generation capacity from facilities at risk of retirement. Government also would establish a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" w/ aim of promoting nat'l defense & maximizing domestic energy supplies.
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@ArrowsOverAthen Memo obtained by Bloomberg that was circulated Thursday ahead of a planned Friday meeting of the National Security Council. Memo, marked as "draft," describes drafted directive & makes case for action over dozens of pages.
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NEWS: TC Energy Corp. is seeking to recoup more than $15 billion in damages connected to President Biden’s decision to yank an essential permit for Keystone XL, nearly a year after the oil pipeline's authorization and while construction was underway.
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Employees also are on call to help process permits authorizing seismic surveys hunting for oil in the Atlantic and develop a new 5-year program for selling drilling rights in U.S. coastal waters, according to a newly revised contingency plan.
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These workers aren't alone. The Trump administration has just ordered thousands of furloughed employees back to work without pay to inspect planes, issue tax refunds, monitor food safety & facilitate sales of offshore oil drilling rights.
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President Biden canceled Keystone XL his 1st day in office. Then, Interior mandated only top officials could approve drilling permits for 2 months. Next week, Biden is set to go further: suspending the sale of oil & gas leases on federal land. #OOTT.
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A federal judge blocked President Trump’s bid to re-open large swaths of the Arctic Ocean for oil development. The ruling complicates the administration’s plan to sell drilling rights in Arctic waters that could hold more than 30 billion barrels of oil.
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When it comes to presidential transitions, the call that really matters comes not from networks but from an obscure federal agency known as the GSA. And it hasn't happened yet.
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NEWS: The Biden administration has decided to authorize a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil project in Alaska, despite arguments from environmental activists who say it will push the world closer to climate catastrophe. w @JenniferJJacobs.
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Federal law bars agencies from spending money they don't have (w/ exceptions to protect human life & property). But DOJ has never prosecuted anyone for flouting that ban. And it's not clear anyone else would have standing to challenge shutdown spending.
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@realDonaldTrump As President Trump highlights his decision to leave the Paris Agreement, a reminder that the U.S. break with the pact can’t actually become official until Nov. 4, 2020 (the day after next year’s presidential election).
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This ruling is the latest federal court rebuke of an action the Trump administration has taken in pursuit of an American “energy dominance” agenda. It also could give a boost to lawsuits challenging Trump’s decision to shrink the Bears Ears national monument.
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Kamala Harris' long track record prosecuting fossil fuel companies and pursuing environmental justice signals she could be more of an oil industry antagonist than Joe Biden. w/ @AriNatter
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Biden taps Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department, putting a Native American with deep respect for the land in charge of an agency that oversees 500 million acres of it: w @jeneps.
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Administration officials are still deciding on what - if anything - to do. This memo represents the DOE's latest, most fully developed plan to intervene on behalf of coal & nuclear power plants, pitched to Trump's top national security advisers. Memo here:
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Trump just ordered his energy secretary to take immediate action to stem power plant closures in the name of national security, arguing that declining coal & nuclear electricity puts the nation's grid at risk.
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Oil companies “do not deserve special access to taxpayer-financed bailout funds at a time when millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet,” @SenWarren argued Thursday. w @AriNatter @SalehaMohsin.
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An all-star lineup of economists, including all living former Fed chairs & former presidential advisers, just endorsed a plan to combat climate change by slapping a tax on carbon dioxide emissions & then distributing the revenue to American households.
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Breaking: Icahn subpoenaed by U.S. over his biofuel moves while serving as a special regulatory adviser to Trump.
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NEWS: Vice President Kamala Harris will promise the US will contribute $3 billion to the UN Green Climate Fund -- a pledge that comes on top of the country's climbing climate finance for poor and vulnerable countries. Click to read more:.
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The Biden admin has temporarily lifted 101-yr-old Jones Act shipping mandates so a foreign tanker can deliver fuel from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast. The move, which applies to a single, as-yet-unknown company, comes as the Colonial Pipeline restarts.
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Scoop: The Biden administration just ordered the federal government immediately halt supporting coal plants & other carbon-intensive projects overseas. The directive bars government funding as well as diplomatic assistance for the ventures. w @nwadhams.
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Breaking: The Trump administration’s sale of oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is set to go forward Wednesday, after a federal judge rejected requests by environmentalists and Native Alaskans to block the auction.
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Environmentalists are plotting a multi-pronged legal attack on Keystone XL & protests all along its 1,179-mile route
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SCOOP: Trump is seriously considering waiving Jones Act requirements that only American vessels can move natural gas from US ports to Puerto Rico or energy-starved areas of the Northeast. Via 3 Jennifers, including @jendeben & @jenniferjjacobs.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has developed a plan for dealing with the growing crude glut and helping U.S. oil producers hammered by low prices: paying them not to extract it in the first place. w @vtobben @robertuttle @arinatter @scunningha #OOTT.
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Scoop: EPA Chief Pruitt did pay rent for that Capitol Hill apartment he rented from a lobbyist - $50 per night but only on the nights he slept there. White House officials are dismayed by his handling of the matter, @JenniferJJacobs and I are told.
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If Joe Biden wins the White House but Republicans retain control of the Senate, he'd have to rely heavily on federal agencies to advance his ambitious clean energy and climate agenda.
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Climate envoy @JohnKerry gives mayors a reality check: The Paris agreement set a target of holding temp rise to 2 degrees Celsius, but “the fact is, we’re not doing that today.” We’re on a catastrophic track. “We have to raise ambition,” & the US has to be a leader driving it.
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NEW: House Republicans are huddling over their approach to climate change and holding a closed-door strategy summit this morning as they face intensifying pressure from younger voters to address the environmental threat. W @AriNatter
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The Biden administration is yanking ~70 oil drilling permits that were invalid because they were issued by agency workers, w/out the temporarily required approval of political appointees. #oott.
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Sen. Manchin balked at the price tag of Biden's Build Back Better plan. Now he wants to expand at least one of its climate provisions:. w @AriNatter.
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BREAKING: Trump to issue far-reaching reversal of Obama climate policies. New details on Tuesday's executive order:
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Companies that buy Arctic refuge drilling rights may never get to use them -- blocked by a new president that has vowed to permanently protect the territory & lenders that think oil development in the reserve isn't worth the risk.
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Treasury Secretary-designate Janet Yellen told senators she & Biden support "effective carbon pricing" & warned that climate change "is an existential threat to not only our environment but also our economy." (1/2). via @SalehaMohsin @jendeben.
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NEWS: The Biden administration is on track next week to propose the toughest-ever US curbs on car pollution, even as it stops short of mandating electric vehicles or banning gas-powered models.
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As colleagues grew sick & his family pleaded w/ him to stay home, Rafael Benjamin kept reporting to his job at a PA pork plant hoping to make his 4/10 work anniversary. Instead, he spent it on a ventilator - & died the next day. @lydiamulvany @polly.
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NEWS: The Biden administration is preparing to suspend the sale of oil & gas leases on federal land that accounts for about a tenth of U.S. production. w/ .@AriNatter #OOTT.
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Pruitt supporters say an agency review exonerated the EPA chief of all possible ethical issues tied to his $50-a-night condo. It didn't. w/ @JenniferJJacobs.
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The US just became a net oil exporter for the 1st time in 75 years. This milestone shows the US is meeting its own oil needs (& then some). But we're still tied to a world energy market, exposed to global prices & geopolitics. @JavierBlas breaks it down
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The Biden administration on Monday began restoring California’s power to set more-stringent limits on greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, a shift that would give the state leverage in charting new auto standards.
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The swamp creatures are back as Interior Secretary David Bernhardt testifies before the House Natural Resources Committee.
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I don't know about the grid, but I can tell you my email inbox is resilient, having weathered an onslaught of news releases & statements in response to FERC's rejection of Perry's plan to save coal & nuclear plants.
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That sound you just heard was a million renewable energy lobbyists and climate activists banging their head against the wall. #Manchin #Reconciliation.
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President Joe Biden just authorized ConocoPhillips' giant Willow oil project in Alaska, despite warnings it has no place in a warming world. You heard it from @business first. w @JenniferJJacobs.
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I'm hereby revoking any authority to use car puns. You are preempted. No more of this, people:.California's not in the driver's seat. Trump's putting climate progress in reverse.The auto industry will be spinning its wheels.
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“Middle-ground,” middling solutions like the one proposed by Biden “are not going to save us” from climate change. “Too little, too late is too dangerous,” @JayInslee says. #DemDebate.
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The future of American prosperity depends on addressing the economic complications of climate change, & acknowledging that is hardly a “radical posture,” Sarah Bloom Raskin says in letter withdrawing her Fed candidacy. by @StevenTDennis @JenniferJJacobs.
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OUT: .Senate EPA hearing dominated by hours of questions on soundproof phone booths, Pruitt's 24/7 security, staffers running personal errands for the chief, etc. IN:.Oversight hearing dominated by hours of questions about the US biofuel mandate.
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Federal authorities are seriously considering shutting the National Mall for Biden's inauguration amid threatened disruptions, but the National Park Service says "no final decision has been made." More on @TheTerminal via me, @AriNatter & @SophiaCai99.
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ConocoPhillips wasted no time in starting construction on its $8 billion Willow oil project in Alaska. And environmentalists wasted no time in going to court to challenge it.
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Renewable power doesn't pose a major threat to US electric grid, per early draft of long-awaited reliability study.
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Energy, environment and climate reporters in DC today be like
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And if you're wondering, yes, it is getting harder to build oil & gas pipelines in America:. via @racheladhe.
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The Biden administration just banned the export of oil technology to Russia with a goal of “degrading” its status as a leading energy supplier. w @DavidWethe.
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Sign of the times? The Petroleum Marketers Association of America just changed its name to Energy Marketers of America.
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Executives from some of the nation's biggest oil companies pledged climate collaboration & endorsed a carbon price in a meeting today with Biden's national climate adviser, Gina McCarthy.
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Birthday brownies! Happy to be working at #COP26 w/ fantastic journalists @Jess_Shankleman @AlexJFMorales @KarolineCQKan @AkshatRathi @johnainger @emmarossthomas @sharonchenhm @johnfraher @AlastairJMarsh
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Meet the new EPA boss, the same as the old boss - but only on policy. Andrew Wheeler brings a quiet effectiveness to the EPA administrator job. Don’t expect speeches & scandals. Expect him to keep his head down & focus on environmental policy changes.
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The partial government shutdown has docked fishing boats in Alaska & delayed public meetings on a proposed wind farm near Massachusetts. But the Trump administration is working overtime to make sure the shutdown doesn't halt oil drilling.
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A federal court tossed out a Trump admin rule easing curbs on methane from oil & gas wells on federal land, saying the measure was based on “myriad inadequacies” & ignored scientific facts about the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. w @ellengilmer.
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Three companies bid a record-shattering $405.1 million to nab U.S. rights to build offshore wind farms near Massachusetts on Friday, a testament to the surging appeal of renewable power and investors’ growing confidence in demand for it.
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo pledged the agency would move as quickly as possible to advance a trade investigation that is roiling the domestic solar industry, calling it “an issue of real urgency.”. #ClimateCrisis.
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@SecretaryZinke Before the @Interior Dept assembled its draft plan for selling offshore drilling rights, governors had a chance to weigh in w/ their views. Plenty of governors asked that their states to be left out of the proposal. Per BOEM, Florida Gov. Scott wasn't one of them.
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What happens when Republican vows to rescind Obama-era environmental regulations meet the real world. W/ @AriNatter:
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Trump international energy adviser Wells Griffith is leaving the White House for OPIC after defying a congressional subpoena in the impeachment inquiry, amid a broader National Security Council shuffle. w @AriNatter
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Biden is nearing decisions on the team of officials who will chart his environmental and energy policy:. w/ @AriNatter.
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More than $1.9 billion in tax benefits are being claimed by 37+ oil companies, service firms & contractors, after Congress empowered them to deduct recent losses immediately. w @AriNatter @laurapdavison @davidwethe @crowleykev @racheladhe.
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NEWS: President Biden is set to order a ban on new offshore oil and gas development across some 625 million acres of US coastal waters, ruling out the sale of drilling rights in the Atlantic and Pacific as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Gift link:
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The Trump administration just approved a plan for the largest solar installation in U.S. history, giving its blessing to a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary’s 690-megawatt project near Las Vegas.
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President Trump vowed to save coal. But his administration couldn’t rescue coal-fired power plants in which the U.S. government has a direct stake. .H/T to @bstorrow who highlighted the latest defeat on the Navajo Generating Station last night.
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Pruitt racked up $107,441 in airfare during six months last year, according to newly released records. That included $14,434 in charter flights one day in his home state of Oklahoma.
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In his own words: EPA Administrator Michael Regan highlights his vision for the agency, his plans for reining in emissions & how he aims to make environmental justice a guidepost for decision-making. w @sklee_ca.
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When it comes to pipeline cybersecurity, who's in charge?. US pipeline watchdog has 6 staffers: .via @AriNatter. Colonial Pipeline searched for a cybersecurity chief 2 months before ransomware attack: via @SergioChapa @Tobin_Tweets.
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Meet Dominica, the island that has become a 300-square-mile laboratory for how countries can harden themselves against violent storms, via @cflav.
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I took after @Jeopardamy ’s fashion sense tonight. Now, if only I had the same @Jeopardy winning streak…
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Lawmakers who support petroleum and ethanol industries just joined forces to challenge Biden's electric vehicle push, marking a rare moment of unity between oft-warring interests.
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Wind power generation drops as bitter cold imperils turbines. Consumers are asked to lower thermostats amid concerns about gas supply. To coal boosters, the Arctic blast provides proof we need coal plants. Analysts say it shows we need a suite of options.
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Fearing a climate data purge under Trump, the @SierraClub is making a push to get records before they disappear:
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The Trump administration has finalized a plan to auction oil drilling rights across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 1.56-million-acre coastal plain. But w/ low crude prices, high legal uncertainty & banks forswearing Arctic financing, who will bid?.
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More adventures in 11-yr-old engineering: My son, who now aspires to make a hydrogen-fueled device, asked me if we could electrolyze water for the project. Alas, he didn't ask me about claiming a tax credit for the work, so I couldn't riff on additionality and time-matching.
My son, who aspires to make an ethanol-fueled device, just consulted Alexa on how to create ethanol. FTR, I feel like he overlooked a nearby living and breathing resource. (Granted, I wouldn’t have thought to end with advice to seek approval from local regulatory bodies.).
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Biden's new climate pledge will require sweeping changes in the way Americans hit the roads, power their appliances and heat their homes. It will also require a lot of land. Check out this visualization from @merrill_dave :
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Stock markets tell the tale after Trump win. Coal surges & renewables are in retreat, via @javierblas2 & @ahirtens
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