Why is the Administration out to wreck American science? In this case, the obvious answer is also the correct: it's all about ideology.
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For those in the bottom 20%, today's gas price increase is equivalent to a 5% pay cut. No wonder people are upset!
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Of all the bad things that Trump has done, the effort to undermine American science may be the most inexplicable. What exactly is slashing biomedical research, materials science, and physics supposed to achieve? A mystery.
As part of its continuing war against American science, the Trump Administration has proposed a new rule that replaces merit-based research funding with a highly political process. Besides being terrible policy, the new rule is clearly illegal.
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DOE is eliminating rebates for replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps. Funny thing: Congress specifically included those replacements in the rebate program.
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Unlimited energy abundance is more of a pipe dream than a realistic policy goal. Abunmdance advocates like Matt Yglesias are at their best when they're at the most pragmatic. legal-planet.org/2026/05/21/4...
You hear a lot of people say renewables are only cheap because of subsidies. That's not really true anymore. And even if it was, those subsidies are economically justified in a world without a carbon price.
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A sensible op. ed. from the Wall Street Journal. Will wonders never cease?
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NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels.
$2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025.
The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.
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Jan Rosenow
The Trump Administration views science as fatally infected with woke ideas and lacking much other value. @dfarber1950.bsky.social
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The idea of unlimited free power is a mirage that will only distract us from the important work of building a sustainable energy system.
The path forward offers historic opportunity, marked by continuing innovation and prosperity. But it is also filled with potholes and potential wrong turns.
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Clean energy subsidies aren't handouts. They're payment for real societal benefits like reducing deaths from pollution.
The White House has cut or frozen billions in scientific research funds that had been approved by Congress. It’s an assault on the rule of law and on the security, health, and prosperity of all Americans.
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Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.
