Reporter for Gas Outlook, covering oil and gas industry. Previously at DeSmog.
Portland, Oregon
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Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio.
Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands
As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
Finally some good conservation news.
apparently the Mexican government has backed a new super cheap EV van, 100 percent made in Mexico, that looks sick as hell www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
An electric vehicle startup backed by the Mexican government unveiled its first prototype in a ceremony featuring President Claudia Sheinbaum, who praised the project as an affordable mobility option ...
The Pakistan model:
"the actual solar boom in Africa is taking place not primarily in state-planned large-scale projects, but on thousands of homes and businesses across the continent...It is a market that is developing largely outside the radar of traditional energy planning processes."
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A hidden solar boom is now spreading across Africa
Carney is gutting environmental protections and climate policy in order to build more oil and gas
EU bows to lobbyists and Washington, moves to weaken Methane Regulation
A leaked draft document shows the European Commission on the verge of scrapping all penalties for violating the Methane Regulation through the end of the decade.
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A leaked draft document shows the European Commission on the verge of scrapping all penalties for violating the Methane Regulation through the end of the decade.
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Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Really drives home how much other customer classes were subsidizing skyrocketing data center energy demand costs before the Oregon Legislature passed the POWER Act. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/06/04/p...
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Absolutely unbelievable story - Meta is building fossil-fuelled data centres inside **huge tents**??
An absolutely perfect demonstration of the desperation, impatience and thoughtlessness of this fossil-fuel hungry energy waste boom.
The POWER Act passed by lawmakers last year requires large industrial energy users to pay their share of electricity usage.
Mangroves, vital for protecting coastlines and storing carbon, are making an unexpected comeback due to increased legal protections and public awareness of their importance. Since 2010, the rate of mangrove loss has slowed down, with more forests being restored than destroyed.
Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
