Arianna Skibell

Atlanta, New York, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., United States

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3,500 percent solar tariff divides US industry

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Roger Garbey and Andres Hernandez install solar panels on a roof in Palmetto Bay, Florida. | Joe Raedle/AFP via Getty Images There’s a new solar tariff in town, and it’s a biggie. An independent federal agency has backed imposing levies as high as 3,521 percent on China-linked solar imports from four Southeast Asian countries, writes Christa Marshall.
How one man gummed up NOAA

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens as President Donald Trump speaks during an April 17 event at the White House. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo The nation’s preeminent climate and weather agency is immobilized as it waits for the Commerce secretary to sign hundreds of crucial contracts.
How Trump tanked NY offshore wind

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Workers walk by offshore wind components at the State Pier in New London, Connecticut. | Susan Haigh/AP A major New York offshore wind farm was set to supply 500,000 homes with carbon-free power. Now Empire Wind 1 may close up shop rather than pursue a potentially compelling legal case against the Trump administration’s stop-work order.
GOP’s clean energy divide hits home in the desert

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Nathan Olsen, service manager at Obodo Energy, walks alongside the company's solar installation at a commercial farm in Willcox, Arizona, on April 22, 2025. | James Bikales/POLITICO Former President Joe Biden’s climate law helped supercharge a clean energy manufacturing boom in the small city of Casa Grande, Arizona. Now those economic gains are caught up in the GOP’s internal war over the fate of former President Joe Biden’s climate legacy.
Environmental reviews in name only?

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has tied efforts to boost domestic energy to national security. | Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via Getty and iStock) The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to fast-track environmental reviews of fossil fuel and mining projects — a move experts say is almost guaranteed to cause environmental harm and legal headaches. The new 28-day review period, analysts told Ian M.
Quitting Paris was just the start

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking in 2017 about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP The Trump administration has been dropping hints it may exit the world’s oldest climate treaty — a move that would go way beyond his withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Trump, crypto, energy: Glued at the hip

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, speaks during Token 2049, a crypto event, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on May 1. | Altaf Qadri/AP The Trump family’s fortune and the nation’s energy future became more deeply entangled this week when the president’s sons announced they plan to take their cryptocurrency company public.
GOP moment of truth: Scalpel or sledgehammer?

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday. | Francis Chung/POLITICO After months of deliberations, Republicans are laying bare just how far they will go to unfurl former President Joe Biden’s green legacy. The deeper the cuts, the more it could hurt their districts back home. GOP lawmakers are rushing to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill in the House this week, with an eye toward a floor vote next week.
AI giants bring their energy pleas to Congress

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 8, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Tech giants are urging lawmakers to speed up the permitting process for large data centers — a move that could have major implications for the nation’s electricity mix, public lands and sensitive ecosystems.
FEMA can’t catch a break

1 month ago | politico.com | Arianna Skibell

Evacuees and victims of the Eaton Fire meet with FEMA and SBA officials on Jan. 21 at the Pasadena Convention Center. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Three weeks before the Atlantic hurricane season starts, the nation’s disaster response system is leaderless. The Trump administration fired the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency today — news that POLITICO E&E News reporter Thomas Frank broke this afternoon.