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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This chart shows BAAJA reducing emissions!!! The point, though, is that BAAJA is good for economic growth, good for affordability, and good for American national security. I might oppose it anyway if it was a huge disaster for climate but it clearly helps there a little too.

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

Scoop in @PunchbowlNews PM: Trump's National Energy Dominance Council hosted a meeting this afternoon w/supportive industry reps across the energy sector to strategize over passing the bipartisan permitting reform bill. SEIA, ACP, ACORE, API, AXPC, LIUNA among attendees

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

Scoop in @PunchbowlNews PM: @SEIA and other clean energy trades today briefed Dem staff from ENR and EPW committees (including down dais) on the bipartisan permitting bill. SEIA presented preliminary analysis showing BAAJA's potential for more solar deployment, emissions cuts

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

The prelim analysis I obtained found passing BAAJA would lead to 167 gigawatts of more solar being deployed, 51% less natural gas capacity being added from 2028-2035, and power sector carbon emissions falling 20% during that period. Read it here

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

Scoop in @PunchbowlNews PM: @SEIA and other clean energy trades today briefed Dem staff from ENR and EPW committees (including down dais) on the bipartisan permitting bill. SEIA presented preliminary analysis showing BAAJA's potential for more solar deployment, emissions cuts

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

my hot take is that the non-transmission parts of BAAJA are also good—none of them strip away substantive environmental protections, they just make permitting more predictable and consistent, rather than subject to the arbitrary procedural hurdles

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

The prelim analysis I obtained found passing BAAJA would lead to 167 gigawatts of more solar being deployed, 51% less natural gas capacity being added from 2028-2035, and power sector carbon emissions falling 20% during that period. Read it here

Rust Never Sleeps / George Morrison 🇨🇦 @rustneversleepz

Isn't Guenther's own vast wealth derived primarily from one of the leading data center hyperscalers and frontier AI labs?🤔 [not that this would disqualify the merits of any position she/they might advance, but just seems an awkward tactic/critique to lead with? 🤔] JAQ🤷

Center on Global Energy Policy @ColumbiaUEnergy

If climate policy is a Thanksgiving dinner, the #BAAJA bill is the mashed potatoes, cornbread, and pumpkin pie. 🦃 ▶️ CGEP’s @noahqk on why the permitting bill is still a step forward for climate progress. Listen to the #ColumbiaEnergyExchange podcast episode:

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

Great to join the @Poli_Climate podcast with a fun crew to discuss my reporting on the Senate's bipartisan permitting reform bill. We also discuss the Caleb(s) of Chicago sports. Take a listen!

Zeke Hausfather @hausfath

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence.

Ben Krauss @BenKrauss5

Truly tons of sympathy for those in the environmental movement who feel like even their own allies are betraying the ideals they’ve fought decades for. But times are a changin and the framework to solve one century’s problem doesn’t necessarily lend itself to the next. Kudos to those who have updated their thinking here.