Callie Patteson

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[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

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[status annoyicus @medburnbook]

Tell me why you went into your field in 5 words or less.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

From the 17th floor of the NRC’s headquarters, Chairman Ho K. Nieh can see what he describes as a “memorial” to the nuclear energy renaissance that was expected in the early to mid-2000s, but that failed to materialize.

More from my interview with Nieh:

https://t.co/Rals3lVEJc

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

“I feel so empowered by this moment right now,” Nieh said. “This is, really in my view, the most consequential moment for nuclear energy in America in nearly 50 years.”

Read my profile on the chairman for @dcexaminer below!

https://t.co/Rals3lVEJc

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

From the 17th floor of the NRC’s headquarters, Chairman Ho K. Nieh can see what he describes as a “memorial” to the nuclear energy renaissance that was expected in the early to mid-2000s, but that failed to materialize.

More from my interview with Nieh:

https://t.co/Rals3lVEJc

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

Some take aways:
- Nieh said Trump’s EO signed last year was a catalyst for major change at the NRC
- Said the NRC has about 120 fewer staffers than expected for anticipated work in next FY
- Insisted there will be no rubber-stamping
- Said he feels purpose not pressure

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

Advanced nuclear developers are aiming to have small modular reactors online by the 2030s, if not sooner.

It's an ambitious timeline as there aren't any operational in the U.S., but the country's top regulator thinks its possible.

New in @dcexaminer:
https://t.co/xF7E78KlBx

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

Today, I sat down with Ho Nieh, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to discuss how the agency has streamlined regulations to accelerate nuclear reactor deployment, how fast SMRs could come online, if he feels pressure from the White House, and more.

Stay tuned.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

BREAKING: U.S. SPR declines 7.9 million barrels in the last week to 349.2 million as of June 5, meaning that at any moment in the next few days the SPR will decline to its lowest since 1983, when it was being filled for the first time.

[Adam Federman @adamfederman]

Even the war in Iran, the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and an impending oil shock could not compel industry to bid on leases in the refuge

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

Read my full coverage of the lease sale here: https://t.co/5JoDGioU9G

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

🚨 Oil industry is hesitant to drill in ANWR, with only two companies bidding on 5 tracts out of 58 offered in the sale. Takeaways:
- Auction generated $6M +
- Winning bids totaled $3M +
- Hex Energy & the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority were the bidders

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

“We look forward to learning more about the subsurface of the area as leaseholders pursue exploration & ultimately to the next phase, when, like the NRP-A to the west, this area’s full potential begins to be revealed and responsible development takes shape." -- Kevin Pendergast.

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

🚨 Oil industry is hesitant to drill in ANWR, with only two companies bidding on 5 tracts out of 58 offered in the sale. Takeaways:
- Auction generated $6M +
- Winning bids totaled $3M +
- Hex Energy & the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority were the bidders

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

The Trump admin is opening bids today in their 1st lease sale for oil and gas drilling in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The area has been open for drilling since 2017, but has seen little action. Curious why?

Read my latest: https://t.co/jHEWFBGSZg

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

By comparison, the oil & gas lease sale held in the NPR-A in March generated nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.

Officials appeared to acknowledge that some of the lack of interest may be from lack of information about how much oil & gas can actually be recovered in ANWR.⬇️

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

I'll be following the opening of the bids later today, stay tuned for more.

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

The Trump admin is opening bids today in their 1st lease sale for oil and gas drilling in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The area has been open for drilling since 2017, but has seen little action. Curious why?

Read my latest: https://t.co/jHEWFBGSZg

[Callie Patteson @CalliePatteson]

The Trump admin is opening bids today in their 1st lease sale for oil and gas drilling in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The area has been open for drilling since 2017, but has seen little action. Curious why?

Read my latest: https://t.co/jHEWFBGSZg

[Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews]

President Trump is expected to make three coal related announcements:

Saving Coal Plants with $425M DPA Funds

New Coal Export Terminal with $75M DPA Funds

Building New Coal Plants and Restarting Existing Plants with DOE Grant Funds

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[New Scientist @newscientist]

A mysterious little blue octopus discovered nearly 6,000 feet beneath the waters of the Galápagos Islands has officially been identified as a brand-new species. About the size of a golf ball, the tiny creature, now named Microeledone galapagensis, stunned researchers during a deep-sea expedition.

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

the Texas Railroad Commission not regulating railroads is one of those things that makes people stop talking to me when i pull it out at parties, anyway here is ~900 words about it: https://t.co/YYPRj7d47c

[Earth @earthcurated]

Today is World Otter Day.