The Department of Energy wants to excise terms like “climate change,” “green,” “clean/dirty energy,” “emissions,” “carbon/CO2 footprint,” and “decarbonization,” from their internal and external communications.
Don’t say “Fire.”
What’s next?
We have not yet seen how the current administration has synthesized any of the EIS comments we submitted this year, but given their proclivity to pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, my suspicions are that they will ignore all public input and just see what we’ll do about it.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.
Regulatory disruption
It is not a surprise, but rather shocking how the current administration is eviscerating our national regulatory agencies, and doing it in what may appear to lay audiences as “sensible.”
Seabed mining is sneaking up on us
If BOEM grants Impossible Metals a permit to harvest the nodules, it may serve as an invitation to other nations to open the gates to mining operations in the international Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where the ISA is managing the seabed deliberations.
2025 OCS 5-year leasing plan
National Academy of Science delivers a troubling report
…but the current administration has no plans on commissioning any new or replacement ocean research vessels. These vessels take years to build. So with this administration, it looks like the US has just forfeited our advance footing on marine science.
Report from the Acoustical Society meeting New Orleans
I suspect this will really open up our understanding of the culture of fishes, much like video drones have really advanced our understanding of how whales and dolphins play with each other (substantiating my hypothesis that “play is the universal language.”)
Rescinding the word “Harm” from the Endangered Species Act
By way of this semantic legerdemain they would open up the floodgates for extractive and construction industries to run roughshod over their operation areas without regulatory oversight or legal consequences.