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[Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler @ggreschler]

NEW: My colleagues and I spent months tallying up the $ that’s flowed through S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie since he entered politics in 2023.

Enter the $164 million empire.

w/ @MaggieAngst and @anyaviolet

https://t.co/zcmfFZ5GOO

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I’m 50. For our whole lives America has been told populist New Deal-style economics are fringe & “far left” rather than mainstream and in the actual center of public opinion.

The gaslighting machine is finally losing some of its power — which is why the machine’s owners are mad.

[Earthworks @Earthworks]

Its proposed energy system would depend on natural gas and a new pipeline crossing waterways and desert habitat near communities. 💧🚧

🔗📖Read more & sign the petition: https://t.co/G6YlwXnGKn

#ProjectJupiter #DoñaAnaCounty #GasInfrastructure

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

We're starting to see some things

*ORACLE SENDS FORCE MAJEURE NOTICE OVER NEW MEXICO DATA CENTER

[Daniel M Kammen @dan_kammen]

A reminder of the good news in a place that for all its issues is on the right side of history:

@californiapost @CaEnergySafety @JohnsHopkins @ENERGY @fbirol @UCBerkeley

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

The IEA has underestimated solar growth in every single annual World Energy Outlook it's published since 2014: Actual 2023-25 generation has already blown past every one of the last decade's forecasts

Analysts did the exact same thing with AI: late-2024 capex forecasts had to be revised upward month after month just to keep up with reality

Linear institutions can't model exponential technology. Plan accordingly.

Wires chewing pipelines

https://t.co/MMJmpSp4Fo

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

My recap on the growing debate over public participation at the Railroad Commission and Commissioner Wayne Christian's actions yesterday: failing to show up at a committee hearing and cursing at a resident who gave public comment.

@insideclimate

https://t.co/mJGJ9Ju2zM

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

The @txrrc meeting is at overflow capacity (1st time I’ve seen that) including many residents of Cheek TX who are opposed to a carbon capture and storage project in their community.

@insideclimate

[The Green Recruitment Company @greenreccompany]

Mexico has approved 55 private-sector wind and solar projects totaling 10.9 GW, representing more than $10.6 billion in renewable energy investment.

👉 https://t.co/A14pzncUkC

#SolarEnergy #WindEnergy #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyStorage

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

Greetings from the House Energy Resources hearing, where Rep Jay Dean has touched the third rail and asked why Texas is importing millions of barrels of produced water from New Mexico and Louisiana, when the state is running out of disposal space.

[Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono]

The man at the heart of a $1 trillion lawsuit brought by 9/11 families had extensive links to Saudi government officials and went paintballing with one of al-Qaeda's future leaders. The footage, which the FBI had within days of the 2001 attacks, stands in stark contrast to Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials that he was an extremist and a Saudi spy https://t.co/uzdBNWjdE4

[Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono]

Indonesia's wealthiest family, the Hartonos, invested at least $1.4 billion abroad, pivoting from their practice of keeping their wealth at home. Their investments are driven by a strategy to diversify their revenue streams into other currencies https://t.co/8t5V7njfbs

[Russell Gold @russellgold]

In Texas, solar+storage is fundamentally changing the power grid. The result? More abundance, lower prices and, yes, more reliability.

From @liamdenning

https://t.co/ZAXKjVVmkl

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Indonesia is being tested from every direction right now and almost entirely by nature
1 15 August: a magnitude 7.7–7.8 earthquake struck Flores Island, killing at least 129 people and damaging close to 100,000 homes
2 31 August: six volcanoes erupted within hours of each other across the archipelago: Sinabung, Ibu, Lewotobi Perempuan, Ili Lewotolok, Semeru and Anak Krakatau. Indonesia's geological agency says these are independent events
3 Anak Krakatau has since built into its strongest eruptive phase of the year. As of this morning, ash has forced the closure of eight airports, stranded 170,000 passengers, and even disrupted school meal deliveries in the ash-affected areas
4 Meanwhile, peatland and forest fires are burning across Kalimantan and Sumatra at a scale rivalling the catastrophic 2015 season: more than 444,000 fire hotspots detected, carbon emissions already ahead of 2015 levels for the same week, and haze severe enough that Kuching, Malaysia briefly ranked as the world's most polluted city. Over 5m Indonesians have been directly exposed to the smoke. No meaningful rain is forecast until November
4 This is all landing on a country already stretched, managing a nationwide food-safety crisis in its flagship school meals program (50,000+ sickened since last year) and a fuel and energy squeeze from this year's global oil shock

Remarkable amount for one government, and one population, to be absorbing at the same time

[Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane]

BBC team reports from Banjarbaru, Indonesia where massive wildfires are causing haze across much of Southeast Asia https://t.co/eFQ0Qr23l2

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

New evidence suggests Lurie's office is concealing or destroying public records

The mayor pledged in 2025 to hand over work messages. Now his office says it has none, despite other departments readily producing them.

📝: @ggreschler and @MaggieAngst https://t.co/EZmhJkkwSE

[Alex @alex_avoigt]

We have the solutions and all we need to do is to implement them

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

Thanks to @KXAN_News for having me on yesterday to talk about the Railroad Commission's vote to eliminate public comment at open meetings https://t.co/tjqqDKte3s

[Las Cruces Sun-News @CrucesSunNews]

The New Mexico Environment Department will appoint another hearing officer in the Project Jupiter air quality permit application process. https://t.co/oD5XOZ5s0f

[IEEFA.org @ieefa_institute]

Air Products' Louisiana Clean Energy Complex was founded when the hype around blue hydrogen exploded in 2022. By 2025, cheap natural gas and generous production subsidies were no longer enough to get a project to move ahead.

via @kennedymaize

https://t.co/mt3SiCZ0cq