SuperBowlLX was the first Super Bowl with the stadium powered by 100% solar alone for the pre-game show (from 10 AM-3 PM PT), since the California ISO grid was powered by 100% solar during that time.
Sunday, February 8 was also the 22nd day of 2026 with 100% Wind-Water-Solar powering the grid for part of the day-and no blackouts
SB LVIII in Las Vegas was 100% RE but not solar alone
Our institutional understanding of climate science is feeling a little like a snowball in Hell right now.
Oligarchs readying massive environmental rug-pull that will reverberate for ages.
The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, according to U.S. officials, in the most far-reaching rollback of U.S. climate policy to date.
The reversal targets the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which concluded that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. The finding provided the legal underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules, which limited emissions from power plants and tightened fuel-economy standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act.
“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an interview.
The final rule, set to be made public later this week, removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse-gas emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions and reporting obligations for industries, according to administration officials.
It wouldn’t apply to rules governing emissions from power plants and other stationary sources such as oil-and-gas facilities, the officials said. But repealing the finding could open up the door to rolling back regulations that affect those facilities.
Continue reading “Snowball in Hell: Endangerment Finding Endangered”Disclaimer: Not all climate deniers are pedophiles, but I bet most pedophiles are climate deniers.
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Sara Peach is Editor at Yale Climate Connections (via email):
As I’ve written, Epstein expressed doubt about mainstream climate change science.
In a typo-laden email that appears to have been sent to Woody Allen’s wife Soon Yi Previn, Epstein wrote, “I think you might consider the sources you guys rely on for info , are the same that write the bad articles about each of us.”
He added, “Your knowledge of the falsity of articles about each of us, is really no different than the ones on climate change etc.”
What an unintentionally revealing argument!
Continue reading “More Epstein Climate Denial”AI unlikely to replace the cooks, carpenters, and other support workers at two Antarctic facilities run by the British Antarctic Survey.
The fossil fuel industry got what it wanted – a Presidency entirely pliable to their agenda, if only because he was only interested in pursuing his own robbery and selloff of America.
But the cost has been staggering. None of us would have believed it could happen so fast.
Trump has done what Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, 9-11, Iraq, and Covid failed to do – crush the American Brand, as a cultural touchstone, the aspirational ideal, the world’s best hope of a better life, rule of law, and the prospect of a rules based order.
A friend in Iceland once said to me, “We’re all Americans now, after all, aren’t we?”
Because the world looked to America as a gold standard for governance, for democracy, for the best science and universities, and for a system that, for all its flaws, would eventually find the right way – they gave us grace, and enough confidence to make our currency the global reserve standard, the refuge for capital that for decades underwrote our profligate national debt.
If you thought this was just politics of the moment, if you thought this was not going to have a long term effect, you’re in for a nasty surprise.
Good essay here, it’s long, so I am just excerpting the first part.
There’s a moment many of us remember—standing in a Tokyo 7-Eleven at 2 AM, cracking open an ice-cold Coca-Cola. Or queuing outside an Apple Store in Berlin, giddy with anticipation. Or watching Friends reruns in a Melbourne apartment, laughing at jokes that felt universal. America wasn’t just a country then. It was a feeling. A promise. The place where anything was possible, where justice prevailed, where the underdog could win.
That America is dead.
And we need to talk about what killed it—because this isn’t about politics as usual. This isn’t about left versus right, red versus blue. This is about watching a nation that once exported hope now export shame. And the world is responding in the only language that truly matters: they’re walking away.
Let’s start with the cost, because Americans respect a balance sheet. They worship GDP and twerk for it.
Tesla’s European sales collapsed by over 40% in multiple quarters of 2025. Not because the cars got worse—because the CEO became synonymous with an administration that Europeans view with barely concealed horror. When Elon Musk stands beside Donald Trump, every Tesla on the Autobahn becomes a political statement people no longer want to make.
Starbucks lost more than $20 billion in market value in 2025. The green mermaid, once a symbol of cosmopolitan coffee culture, now carries the stain of association with American foreign policy decisions that much of the world finds morally bankrupt.
Apple, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Nike—brands that once represented the pinnacle of global cool—are now actively avoided by consumers from Toronto to Tokyo. Not boycotted in angry protest, but quietly set aside. Replaced. Forgotten.
Continue reading “How MAGA Killed America’s Brand”It was something a lot of folks might not have gotten, but Meteorologist Ryann Jones of KXAS Dallas Ft Worth made the right connection immediately during the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance (below), when the set featured workers on power poles.
Bad Bunny’s home in Puerto Rico has been increasingly exposed to more and more extreme storms and hurricanes, like Maria in 2017, that have battered the island’s power system and highlighted the need for more resilient and distributed energy system.
As I’ve been saying for many years, there is some kind of organic, hard-wired, brain structure connection between hostility to climate science, and racism.
Clear evidence, again, this week, that there is no bottom, and no limit to what Republicans, and supposed “Christians”, will allow, and indeed celebrate.
Below, Trump doubles down. “It was not a mistake.”
Of course not.
As experts warn of a possible “widespread collapse” in US Agriculture due to the erratic and incompetent policies of the current administration, Farmers across the midwest are desperate to diversify their incomes, and clean energy is one way to do it.
In Mansfield Ohio, 2 former County Commissioners write about this need, and the irrational anti-clean energy movement that the fossil fuel interests have ginned up across the country.
Richland Source (Mansfield Ohio):
As former Richland County Commissioners, we understand the weight of decisions that affect our community’s economic future and the rights of our neighbors.
That’s why we’re deeply concerned about the ban on future renewable energy development that our current County Commissioners passed last summer — and why we’re asking voters to join us in voting “No” on the May 5th referendum.
For years, Richland County took a balanced, common-sense approach to energy development proposals. If a farmer or landowner wanted to lease their property for a solar facility or wind farm, the county reviewed each project individually.
We would hear from neighbors, consider local concerns, and make decisions based on the specific merits of each proposal. That system worked because it respected both community input and private property rights.
The current commissioners threw that approach out the window. Their blanket ban doesn’t just prevent bad projects — it eliminates the possibility of any solar or wind development in 11 of our 18 townships, regardless of whether a project makes sense or has community support.
Continue reading “With Farms in Crisis, Clean Energy Bans make No Sense”As the Trump administration, working in concert with fossil fuel organized disinformation campaigns at the local level, slows the construction of clean energy projects, farmers who desperately want those solar, wind and battery projects on their land, to diversify their income, are being squeezed by catastrophic agricultural policies and tariffs, which have collapsed US farmer’s access to global markets.
Looking across the whole economy, it’s as if the Trump administration was a precision guided heat seeking missile aimed at destroying the most important sectors of American power and influence, and it’s working.
Current economic conditions and Trump administration policies could lead to “a widespread collapse of American agriculture,” a bipartisan coalition of former Agriculture Department officials and leaders of farm groups warned in a letter on Tuesday.
The letter to the heads and ranking members of the House and Senate agricultural committees was signed by 27 influential figures in the farming sector, including former heads of powerful associations representing corn and soybean farmers and officials from the Bush and Reagan administrations. It expressed dismay at the “damage done to American farmers.”
While there are many reasons for increasing farm bankruptciesand decreasing profits, “it is clear that the current administration’s actions, along with congressional inaction, have increased costs for farm inputs, disrupted overseas and domestic markets, denied agriculture its reliable labor pool, and defunded critical ag research and staffing,” the letter warned.
The signatories called on Congress to relax tariffs for the agriculture sector, expand international markets, pass a new farm bill and restore funding for agriculture research and staffing.
See elsewhere on this page for explainers about the soaring cost of energy.
One big piece is that the lowest hanging fruit, solar and wind projects that are quick to build, and produce the lowest price power, have been “blockaded” by an administration that has much more interest locking in a generation of power and control for their fossil fuel donors, than it does in lowering prices for consumers.
A majority of Trump-coalition voters back solar power, especially if the panels are made in the U.S. and without Chinese materials, polling shared exclusively with Axios shows.
Why it matters: Trump officials are moving against renewables on several fronts, including Interior Department permitting restrictions and the GOP budget law hastening the end of project subsidies.
Driving the news: Fabrizio, Lee & Associates polled what it calls a “GOP+” sample — a mix of Republicans, GOP-leaning independents and Trump voters.
The share in favor soars to 70% if the panels are made in domestic factories, using U.S. materials, and have no ties to China.
Catch up fast: Tony Fabrizio, a partner in the firm, has been chief pollster for President Trump’s campaigns.
The big picture: “GOP+ voters want America to have energy independence and for their electric bills to be affordable,” a polling memo states.
Meanwhile:
While Mr. Trump’s attacks on offshore wind have been highly visible, his administration has also been hobbling solar and wind energy projects on land by halting or delaying federal approvals that were once routine.
Continue reading “Trump Administration Blocking Clean Energy That Even Their Own Voters Want”
