@CorbinHiar

Climate and business reporter at @politico. Also a dad, cyclist, @penguild supporter, and lapsed Minnesotan (who's spending more time on 🩋)

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Joined October 2009
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NEW: Argus Insight, a secretive firm run by Trump White House vets and a former @axios reporter, is digging for dirt to smear officials involved in a $51 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, corporate litigation experts say. đŸ§” eenews.net/articles/gop-link


GOP-linked firm gathers info on people suing the oil industry. It won’t say why.

An opposition research group appears to be trying to undermine a lawsuit that accuses oil companies of causing a deadly heat wave in Oregon.

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Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show. via @CorbinHiar eenews.net/articles/big-bank


Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

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Trump said in an interview last night: “Medicare, Medicaid — none of that stuff is going to be touched.” Today he endorsed the House plan to slash billions from Medicaid. politico.com/news/2025/02/14


Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget

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Unofficial Trump on X@trump_repost19 Feb 2025
The House and Senate are doing a SPECTACULAR job of working together as one unified, and unbeatable, TEAM, however, unlike the Lindsey Graham version of the very important Legislation currently being discussed, the House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it! We need both Chambers to pass the House Budget to "kickstart" the Reconciliation process, and move all of our priorities to the concept of, "ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL." It will, without question, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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E&E News@EENewsUpdates19 Feb 2025
‘You screwed people’: Inside NSF’s firing of 168 workers ift.tt/HJ5GMQP

‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts

At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.

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On the "wall of receipts" it published yesterday, DOGE claimed $8 billion of savings on one contract. It was actually an $8 million contract.
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On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge-faa-


Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal midair collision near...

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Repealing federal funding for carbon removal could send shock waves through venture capital markets, domestic supply chains and local communities that have already begun betting on the climate technologies, according to analysts and some Republican lawmakers.
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Will Trump cut the oil industry’s favorite climate subsidies? ift.tt/jKsko3D

Will Trump cut the oil industry’s favorite climate subsidies?

Rolling back billions of dollars for technologies that clean up the air could send shock waves through Republican states where oil companies are pursuing

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NIH cuts could affect hundreds of medical studies at the Mayo Clinic and other major research hospitals. New treatments for cancer. Alzheimer's. Diabetes. Osteoporosis. All in jeopardy.
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The new cover of TIME.
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Interesting D.C. factoid: Overall car registrations in the city have fallen pretty steadily over the past decade, from 303,000 in 2015 to 274,000 last year. There was also a 30,000 or so increase in population over that same time period.
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Total USAID annual spending to provide food, medicine, shelter and other services to impoverished countries around the world: $38 billion Total increase in Elon Musk's personal net worth since the November election: $156 billion
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Sam Stein
@samstein4 Feb 2025
NEW -- The AFGE, the largest federal employee union, saw skyrocketing membership in January, according to an internal document obtained by The Bulwark. The union grew by 8,693 members, compared to 14,996 new members in the 12 months prior. thebulwark.com/p/we-did-this


We Did This to Ourselves

The crisis we face is the product of our choices.

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Barred in DC@BarredinDC4 Feb 2025
Right Proper allowing customers to pay it forward to buy a beer for a laid off Federal employee buff.ly/4jIACvO
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@politico4 Feb 2025
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs ow.ly/PPu9105YJNU

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

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NEW: The Trump administration is planning to layoff up to half the staff of @NSF, one of the nation's leading science funding agencies.
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To make the climate math work, carbon removal firms rely on CO2-free electricity. But Noah Deich, Biden's carbon removal chief and the co-founder of @carbon_180, isn't too concerned about Trump's attacks on renewable energy.
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Amazing coincidence here ogles.house.gov/media/press-

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BREAKING: Federal prosecutors based in Nashville have withdrawn from the criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, an unprecedented move that could signal plans by the Trump administration to drop the case against a Republican ally. newschannel5.com/news/newsch


Career prosecutors withdraw from federal criminal investigation of GOP Congressman Andy Ogles

Federal prosecutors based in Nashville have withdrawn from the criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles.

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A deep dive into Trump’s bid for Greenland -- a challenge that's stymied mining firms and some of the world’s largest oil companies. 'The nightmare scenario for Trump is that Chinese companies get licenses in Greenland' --> W/@CorbinHiar eenews.net/articles/greenlan


Greenland’s riches have enticed US leaders for generations

President Donald Trump’s bid for the island is an old idea without much appeal among modern drillers and miners, analysts say.

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E&E News@EENewsUpdates31 Jan 2025
Greenland’s riches have enticed US leaders for generations ift.tt/q63FIAR
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USAID officials called Trump's directives a "shock and awe" approach that has left officials unsure how to apply for exemptions for life-saving aid programs. "They even removed all the pictures in our offices of aid programs," per one official
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Axios’ Mike Allen gets first question at the first White House press room briefing, in the “new media seat.” Two weeks ago to Vanity Fair: “We beg our reporters to never go to a White House press briefing.”
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