"In Europe, sales of electric vehicles are growing faster than for any other type of vehicle. About one in five electric vehicles sold in Europe during the first quarter was made in China, according to separate figures from Schmidt Automotive Research." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/china-byd-cars-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.IFnC.sOGJR4TvlHH-&smid=url-share by Jack Ewing

"Rather than save taxpayers money, as Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has promised, federal workers at those five agencies said taxpayers are getting far less return from the government because work has been significantly curbed." https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/17/trumps-energy-cuts-means-agencies-failure-00406526 by Zack Colman

"A federal judge in Massachusetts said Wednesday he plans to deny a motion by the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit over its blocking of wind energy projects, siding with a coalition of state attorneys general." https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-wind-permitting-offshore-attorney-general-fb0d8a8040bef42398b2ec711c71a41e by Jennifer McDermott and Alexa St. John

Julian Spector on the end of the billion-dollar US green hydrogen boom: "Beyond the economic hit, the green hydrogen collapse removes a leading contender for cleaning up the most carbon-intensive industries — at least until the next hydrogen boom comes around." https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/hydrogen/green-industry-trump-tax-credits

Anti-offshore wind activists want the Trump administration to cancel a $426 million grant issued last year to repurpose the Redwood Marine Terminal in Northern California’s Humboldt County for offshore wind: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/california-port-trump-grant-cut by Clare Fieseler

"The EV transition will continue advancing on a global scale, despite the uncertainty of the present. But if these credits are repealed, new EV and battery jobs may come in places like Seoul and Beijing instead of Liberty and Lordstown," writes @CoreyBCantor: https://www.zeta.org/insights/tax-credit-repeal-threatens-battery-job-boom

Russell Vought wants to use "pocket recission" to try to cancel billions of dollars in federal spending, reports @tonyromm: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/trump-vought-congress-spending-rescission.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.Gye_.Ox8MDsfmTJPA&smid=url-share

The Crown Estate just announced plans to invest £400m ($538m) in UK offshore wind ports and supply chain infrastructure as part of a £1bn new funding drive for the sector: https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4415060/crown-estate-invest-gbp400m-uk-offshore-wind-supply-chain via BusinessGreen

A BlueGreen Alliance analysis of the House GOP budget reconciliation bill "found that repealing the clean manufacturing tax credits puts over two million jobs at risk." https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/site/research-brief-house-budget-bill-puts-over-two-million-jobs-at-risk/ h/t Jeva Lange

"It’s clear – coal-fired power plants are putting inflationary pressure on American electricity consumers," writes @EnergyInnovLLC's Michelle Solomon: https://thepowerline.substack.com/p/coal-costs-skyrocket-faster-than

Laura Klivans describes the lessons learned from the EcoBlock decarbonization project in Oakland, California: https://www.kqed.org/science/1997283/this-oakland-block-tried-to-quit-fossil-fuels-heres-what-they-learned

"President Trump said Thursday that his administration is 'not going to approve windmills unless something happens that’s an emergency.'" https://heatmap.news/climate/trump-wind-ban-california-fema via Jeva Lange

This, of course, directly contradicts Trump's Jan 20, 2025, order "Declaring a National Energy Emergency."

Trump just broke a 2023 deal "meant to pour more than $1 billion in new federal investments for wild fish restoration into the Columbia River Basin over the next decade, along with clean energy projects on tribal lands." https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/12/trump-breaks-historic-columbia-river-deal-between-u-s-government-tribes-northwest-states/ by Alex Baumhardt

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California Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph on Trump signing resolutions today to revoke California's car rules: "Despite the President’s signature, this remains an unconstitutional, illegal, and foolish attempt to undermine California’s clean air protections." https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-chair-liane-randolph-responds-president-trumps-approval-illegal-resolutions-revoke

"California energy officials green-lighted the country’s largest solar and battery project to date Wednesday via a new permitting process to streamline certain renewable energy projects," reports Camille von Kaenel: https://www.eenews.net/articles/calif-green-lights-what-would-be-nations-largest-solar-battery-project/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80qVcv50Uwku7wh-YdOJRreINfISAdoO1rg_ceiNeTbzle0cjYEVBbI3r7Bci4JRbzInHUIWhdkS0booeiQ76SBK8xnw&_hsmi=366407712&utm_content=366407712&utm_source=hs_email

New data hub tool from RMI: Tracking the Heat Pump & Water Heater Market in the United States: https://rmi.org/insight/tracking-the-heat-pump-water-heater-market-in-the-united-states/

"Our country needs to stop pretending that some electrons are red and some are blue. Clean energy is now, simply, energy. It is the dominant energy. Ceding this ground to China is not energy dominance. It’s energy surrender," writes Doug Lewin: https://www.douglewin.com/p/energy-submission

EIA: Developers plan to add 18.7 gigawatts (GW) of combined-cycle gas capacity to the grid by 2028, with 4.3 GW already under construction: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65464&utm_medium=email

On next-generation geothermal developer Fervo Energy: "With this latest tranche of funding, the firm’s 500-megawatt development in rural Beaver County is on track to deliver 24/7 clean power to the grid beginning in 2026, reaching full operation in 2028." https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/fervo-206-million via Katie Brigham