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Los Angeles is moving to end oil drilling within city limits.
On Wednesday, the city voted to ban new wells and phase out existing wells over the next 20 years, further pitting the city and state against the Trump admin's push to expand oil and gas:
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In August I tried to summit Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48, after two days of downpours at the trailhead.
More people than ever are heading outdoors. Weather and access are getting harder. My essay for @luxury: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
California voters are being asked to elect a new insurance commissioner in this November's election. Here's a free gift link to @business's guide to the two candidates, Jane Kim and Ben Allen:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
EXCLUSIVE: GM led a $108M financing round for Peak Energy, a sodium-ion energy storage startup building a California plant. Peak says it already has about $1.1B in customer orders.
🎁 link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Two neighbors live less than 2,000 feet apart.
One pays up to $500/month for electricity. The other averages $130.
One has investor-owned National Grid. The other, a municipal utility.
@PopovichN and I dug into America’s widening power-bill divide: bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
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How are investors, industries and households navigating the shocks and opportunities from the record El Niño?
Bloomberg journalists answer your questions in a Live Q&A on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Set a reminder and join the livestream here: bloom.bg/4hXH7L4
NY folks: I'm going to be in town Mon-Wed next week for Climate Week! DM or email me panels, happy hours, meetups, and if you want to just meet for a coffee. I write about climate tech, the environmental impacts of AI and the rising costs of climate change.
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Fusion has moved beyond the question of whether the physics can work.
Now comes the harder test: Can companies build commercial power plants cheaply enough to compete with solar, batteries, gas and nuclear?
@willwwade and I dug into the economics:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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NEW: A new report from benchmarking firm @ValsAI shows that there can be a major difference in the environmental cost of asking a chatbot a simple question v. asking it to vibecode a full-stack web app for you.
More in our piece w @HiMichelleMa
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“We know it works. Now it’s a matter of scaling up.” Companies are racing to prove fusion technology can finally move beyond the lab and become an abundant clean power source.
A deep dive into fusion energy, with @HiMichelleMa
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Asking a chatbot a quick question vs. having it build you a software app: the environmental gap between them can be 10,000x, according to new independent research from @ValsAI.
@shiringhaffary and I dug into what's driving it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (free gift link)
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The fast-growing "Super El Niño" is looking like a potential macroeconomic shock for parts of the Global South. The timing isn't great 🧵on new story out now from Bloomberg @Business + @Economics
ALT A chart showing estimated impact of rainfall anomalies on headline CPI by country, with 1.87 percentage point boost from drought in Indonesia and 1.85pp boost from drought in the Philippines
How much water do data centers really use, why do they use so much, and is it a problem? I talked to researchers and industry experts to understand the true water footprint of the AI boom:
(Gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Believe it or not, there is still climate tech funding activity outside of the AI data center space.
Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures just announced the first investment out of its SAF fund to clean aviation fuel startup Lydian.
🎁 link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Wildfire smoke in NY. Flooding in Texas. Climate risk is turning insurance into a political fight.
@leslieatlarge and I spoke with Jane Kim and Ben Allen, top contenders to regulate CA’s $15B home insurance market.
Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Friday afternoon 🍨👇
About $50 billion in onshore wind investments and 150,000 jobs are at risk from the Trump administration's halt of approvals for new projects, according to a document prepared by @USCleanPower obtained by @business.
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The story of Fermi is in some ways the story of the AI moment: Co-founded by a former Texas governor and a brash entrepreneur, Fermi offered companies racing to build data centers the two things they crave most: open land and an astonishing amount of power.
Fermi’s stock, meanwhile, has tumbled 84% from its peak. The company’s more than 5,000-acre site in the Texas panhandle remains mostly unfinished. And some analysts see a cautionary tale of the market’s AI enthusiasm running ahead of reality.
ALT Fermi's stock slide
My look with @naurtorious inside what went wrong and what's next for Fermi:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…