Joel Kirkland
Enterprise Editor at E&E News
Enterprise editor for @eenewsupdates @politico. Climate, energy, technology, public health. Dad. Chicago-born. Writing it down.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Joel Kirkland
A national policy discussion is underway about the rules governing a rapidly transforming electric grid. | Spencer Platt/AFP via Getty Images From OpenAI founder Sam Altman on down, U.S. tech industry goliaths couldn’t be clearer that they plan to build huge data farms to dominate China in the race to control artificial intelligence.
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Mar 13, 2025 |
politico.com | Joel Kirkland
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26. | Andrew Harnik/AFP via Getty Images The onslaught of Trump administration actions aimed at paring limits on toxic air pollution and rolling back climate regulations adds up to a major shift in America’s political culture: a full-throated, all-of-the-above campaign to revive coal.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Joel Kirkland
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/03/05/gops-climate-ax-meets-business-resistance-00213064By JOEL KIRKLANDRepublican leaders are planning to get rid of some Biden-era clean energy spending to pay a small fraction of the multitrillion-dollar costs of extending 2017 tax cuts — a major piece of President Donald Trump’s fiscal agenda. But their efforts may clash with the interests of energy companies, big businesses and GOP districts throughout the country, Kelsey Brugger writes.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
politico.com | Joel Kirkland
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Dec. 17, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Fossil fuel champions in Congress have long relished the opportunity to put an end to federal tax credits for renewable energy. Now, the anti-climate sentiment at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. gives them a real shot.
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Mar 4, 2025 |
politico.com | Joel Kirkland
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Monday. | Pool photo via AP If the aims of President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda are at all murky to the average voter, one thing is more certain: Cuts to climate and disaster programs are adding up. Since rolling out executive orders targeting former President Joe Biden’s climate policies, Trump’s approach has followed two main paths:Go for the money first.
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