Alexander C. Kaufman

Top of the morning. Here's what's in today's Heatmap News AM: 1. America has officially exited the Paris Agreement, but it'll be a year before the withdrawal from the UNFCCC is complete. 2. Trump just lost another offshore wind case, but he's still sitting on funding for New York's big Gateway rail project, which could run out of money by next week. 3. Sunday's Arctic storm was a force majeure, but Hydro Québec's decision to halt electricity exports through its new transmission line into New England is drawing blowback from independent power producers who warned this could happen. 4. Europe's "mother of all deals" with India is keeping the EU's carbon tariff intact. 5. The National Park Service is removing signs related to climate change and hardships faced by Native Americans. PLUS: Tesla just inked a big deal with the nation's largest truck stop operator, Pilot Travel Center, to install semi chargers. https://heatmap.news/am/trump-paris-agreement

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Good morning! Here's what's in today's Heatmap News AM: 1. Trump takes America's latest equity stake in USA Rare Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR). 2. Century Aluminum rejiggers its plans for the U.S.' first smelter in half a century by instead becoming a minority owner in an Oklahoma plant Dubai-based Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA​) is building. 3. The Labor Department's mining watchdog is no longer releasing inspection data on repeat offenders. 4. South Korea is building two new nuclear plants as the ruling Democratic Party, which previously tried to kill the industry, says it's committed to the previous administration's bullish atomic energy plans. 5. Reflective, the nonprofit aiming to promote geoengineering research, just released a new database that will help that goal. PLUS: China's shrub border is keeping a desert in check. https://heatmap.news/am/trump-usa-rare-earth

John Donne’s semicolon walked in Death Be Not Proud so this hyphen could run.

Hope those of you in the broad swath of America covered in snow are enjoying your snowday. Here's what's in this morning's Heatmap News AM: 1. Roughly 1 million households lost power across the South as the snow came down yesterday. 2. The Metals Company gets a boost from NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's new rule on deep-sea mining. 3. Tesla suspends Autopilot in new cars in the U.S. and Canada. 4. New York extends its nuclear subsidies, and Denmark considers lifting its nuclear ban. 5. Standard Nuclear just raised $140 million in a Series A round. PLUS: Inviting kestrels to live on your fruit farm means the predatory birds will eat disease-causing vermin for you. Cool! https://heatmap.news/am/winter-storm-fern-blackouts

From “The Oppermanns,” the haunting 1933 novel about the rise of German nationalism by Lion Feuchtwanger:

My wife made a passion fruit curd and I’m completely obsessed.

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GM Farcaster friends. Here's your final Heatmap News AM for the week. 1. Fervo Energy and General Fusion are going public. 2. General Motors is moving production of the Buick Envision SUV from China to Kansas, and ending the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt once again. 3. The Energy Department is upending $83 billion in loans, though it's not clear which projects or what loans are included. 4. California regulators project EVs to add more peak demand growth than data centers. 5. A new study shows a global mining boom is underway at existing mines. PLUS: The Trump administration has a new mascot, a lump of coal named Coalie. https://heatmap.news/am/fervo-ipo

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Good morning Farcaster or should I say Neynar pepole. Here's what's in Heatmap News AM today: 1. Trump is taking an off-ramp on Greenland. 2. Two geothermal companies, Zanskar and Sage Geosystems, raise a combined $212 million. 3. Europe's flagship green steel project, Stegra, gets a big offtaker deal. 4. Tesla updates its mission state. 5. The world's biggest nuclear plant powers back on. PLUS: Polyamorous belugas in Alaska! https://heatmap.news/am/geothermal-fundraising

Someone tell Forbes

GM Farcaster. Here's what's in this morning's Heatmap News AM: 1. New Jersey's new governor signed an executive order freezing electricity rates during her inauguration speech. 2. House Democrats are pushing for an investigation into the No. 3 Interior Department official's multimillion-dollar ties to the Thacker Pass lithium project her agency is permitting. 3. The U.N. says we've entered an era of "global water bankruptcy." 4. The Democratic Republic of the Congo just gave the U.S. a shortlist of mineral projects open to American investment. 5. Japan's TEPCO - Tokyo Electric Power Company just delayed the restart of the world's largest nuclear plant. PLUS: Black Seed Bagels, the leading Montreal-style bagel place in New York, is using batteries to power its operations in northern Brooklyn. https://heatmap.news/am/trump-lithium-mine

GM Farcaster. Here's what's in today's edition of Heatmap News AM: 1. Trump is ramping up pressure on Greenland again. 2. A new U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast shows utility-scale solar doing most of the work of meeting new electricity demand in the U.S. for the next two years. 3. Brazil wants a rare earths deal with the U.S., and Bolivia is looking to attract investors to its world-leading lithium resource. 4. The British are getting into the maritime nuclear race. 5. Sunrun comes out against deep-sea mining. PLUS: Jetson just raised a $50 million Series A. https://heatmap.news/am/us-solar-growth

should I be posting from Base more? I’m still signing my checks Farcaster

Such a disgrace that this is a sitting U.S. senator. Americans on the right either have to choose between Republicans who dehumanize Muslims and LARP as crusaders, or far-right Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson types who instead direct that hatred toward their medieval conceptions of Jews that they justify as criticism of their only Jewish state.

It is wild that the conflict in Balochistan doesn't get more attention. The Pakistani military just killed a dozen militants who were allegedly looking to take hostages to further their nationalist cause. This is after violence seemed to ramp up significantly last year. The U.S. gives Pakistan, a nuclear armed country, billions of dollars to fund anti-terrorism operations. And, from what I understand, part of the Baloch insurgency is pushing back against Chinese land grabs in their homeland, so the conflict involves yet another superpower. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-balochistan-kharam-attack-police-banks-separatists-8018f16dae4e54651ccfbae2b376a324