Marie French

Energy and environment for @politicony in Albany, New York.

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[Marie French @m_jfrench]

Hm WHERE could the NY Post editorial board possibly have heard about this?

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

BREAKING: A senior Dem aide tells me the permitting deal is ON HOLD after staff re-read the text this am and found that language addressing five offshore wind projects Trump had attempted to stop "had changed substantially from the language that was originally negotiated."

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

@AlexBGault @PolicyEngineer And NYSERDA refuses to disclose REC prices until projects are operational now.....

https://t.co/42vz4etWbA

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

"New era of transparency" @GovKathyHochul's administration is hiding the cost of new renewable projects from the public

It's a stark departure from more than a DECADE of cost transparency under the state's renewable procurement program run by @NYSERDA

https://t.co/QaIBs42O0q

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

the crazy thing is that sometimes local officials /don't even know/ a data center is eyeing their town!

a developer can be working on a grid hookup and trying to influence policies .... and they haven't even briefed the town yet... !

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

the aluminum smelter to AI data center pipeline

Arconic project proposing to come online in just 6 months (!) despite @GovKathyHochul moratorium on state permits for large-scale data centers

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

An excellent scoop from @LeverNews https://t.co/O6cPLo85Bw

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

👀 👀 👀

Did you go to this methane conference in Norfolk VA where a gas lobbying group took a victory lap for persuading Democrats in the Northeast incl Gov. Hochul of the benefits of new pipelines? If so, reach out!

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

Hochul steamrolled New York’s climate movement. Now green groups are recalculating.

https://t.co/bDtv8RWSfI

[Nick Reisman @NickReisman]

Hochul administration considers data center order via @m_jfrench https://t.co/Fas3rZsZ2x

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

They looked like they were getting rich on Polymarket—but none of it was real.

The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.

Read more: https://t.co/b8UeCYC9sM

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

look, I get it - headlines are for clicks but to call a brutal murder case a "TikTok romance"????

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

the crypto to AI data center pipeline is alive and well in upstate NY

https://t.co/XLE9R74d73

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

Hochul’s affordability-first climate turn could be a blueprint for other Dems https://t.co/8dZiULbNZj via @politico

[Jason Beeferman @JasonBeeferman]

NEW: @Polymarket is spending big money to quietly pay some of the biggest stars on this platform, like @nickshirleyy, @Riley_Gaines_, @dom_lucre, @alx and its coming out of an exec's personal PayPal account.

POLITICO obtained payment records that show @MatthewModabber sent out over $2.5 million to over 800 people in 14 months, and we verified the identities of about two dozen content creators who received money. Most never disclosed the payments. W/ @mayakauf, @Jtblaeser and @declanharty

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

New York lawmakers pass potential first-in-nation data center moratorium

https://t.co/EPOqv3yV9m

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

And 58 percent under an "additional action" scenario.

Environmental advocates hope those actions end up including cap-and-trade by the 2028 deadline for regulations to make progress to the 2040 target.

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

[CORRECTED]

With the accounting changes secured by Gov. Hochul, New York would nearly hit its new 60 percent by 2040 target with some additional action -- according to the state's modeling

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

A previous version of this post has been deleted due to incorrect information provided by the governor's office.

The 2040 target is for gross reductions under IPCC accounting, which the state energy plan's modeling shows would already be about 52 percent under current policies..

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

Better late than never?

[Marie French @m_jfrench]

https://t.co/FeMys4cz9Y