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Born and raised Alaskan writing about energy, environment, and whatever else I feel like.
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Rare Earths Are Still In Our Vocabulary (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! Last week wrapped up a meeting between President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping that was heavy on hype — but light on substance, especially on the critical minerals front. Keep reading for more on this. In other news, I covered for the Independence Institute Xcel Energy’s 20-year franchise agreement with the City of Denver, which voters will approve or decline in November. The funniest thing is that it actually doesn’t matter a whit if voters say no — Xcel retains its mono
PJM is facing a 2030 reliability crisis (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! Last week’s news was largely dominated by data centers. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on Wednesday, though Sen. Martin Heinrich (D., NM) blocked its speedy approval through the Senate. Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D., VA) <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4733391/spanberger-data-center-regulation
Some recent energy and environment headlines (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a relaxing Labor Day and a great weekend. I hit 600 subscribers last week, and I’m grateful to every one of you for being here. In my every-other-week cadence throughout the summer, topics have been piling up that I’d usually write about in more depth. Today’s newsletter is a roundup of what I’ve been reading, some recent and some a little older, with my quick thoughts.Subscribe now<a class="button primary" href="htt
Minnesota Gov. Says No Mining Near the Boundary Waters (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! August tends to be conference season for me, and so it was this year, too. This month really did a number on me, but I’ll be back in the swing of things after Labor Day, when I plan to resume my once-a-week posting schedule. Thanks for being here! Subscribe now<spa
Colorado’s Renewable Milestone, Revisited (opens the original)
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Happy Monday! This week, I’m revisiting data in a piece I wrote last month about how headlines celebrating Colorado’s Q1 2026 renewables milestone were missing an important part of the story — that a major coal plant was offline, and hence total generation was way down. Since then, I’ve discovered that several other coal plants had an unusually low-generating Q1 2026, too, which makes the milestone even less representative of a typical quarter in Colorado. Here’s the original post, as a refreshe
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