Zack Colman
energy/enviro reporter covering the White House for . fellow '16. alum. [email protected] (RT≠endorsement)
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The oil industry actually hasn’t done that well under Trump
POLITICO 86d 3 tweets
Energy executives say the White House has set up a system where only a relative handful of favorite energy executives have access to people who can shape policy.
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Zack Colman . reports how the oil industry really feels it's done under Trump. The answer? "I don’t think it’s one of these things where we as an industry get in a room and say, ‘Man that was a good four years.' It was more like ‘meh.’" 86d
INVESTIGATION: Exclusive: GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
Maxine Joselow - Eenews.net 87d 18 tweets
Scientists at two of America's biggest automakers knew as early as the 1960s that car emissions caused climate change, a monthslong investigation by E&E News has found.
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Zack Colman Powerhouse reporting by ⁦⁩ that shows Ford, GM knew for decades that cars contribute to climate change - but still lobbied against emissions reduction policies & sowed doubt about climate science 87d
Oil scions rally wealthy peers to press banks on climate
POLITICO 111d 2 tweets
The Rockefellers have been critical of companies like Exxon Mobil for efforts to block action on climate change.
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Zack Colman NEW: Several Rockefellers - of Standard Oil fame - are rallying their wealthy friends to push banks on climate. 111d
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Zack Colman 6 days since hiring a climate denier to a newly created post, NOAA hasn’t addressed staff. It comes as a sweeping govt climate report is at a “critical formative stage,” per admin source. NOAA’s fmr top scientist: “There’s an opportunity to manipulate.” 125d
Trump's climate change rollbacks to drive up U.S. emissions
POLITICO 126d 5 tweets
The cumulative additional amount of greenhouse gases would exceed the current annual output of Russia, the world’s fourth-biggest carbon polluter.
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Zack Colman How's Trump graded on climate in his first term? "It’s pretty unambiguously an ‘F,’” said. The data are in. w/ 126d
Business Roundtable to endorse market-based climate policy
POLITICO 128d 5 tweets
The impending move throws the lobbying voice of corporate America behind efforts to combat climate change.
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Zack Colman SCOOP: The lobbying voice of corporate America, the Business Roundtable, is endorsing a "market-based mechanism" to combat climate change. 128d
CFTC report: Climate change poses serious risk to financial system
POLITICO 135d 4 tweets
“Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy,” the CFTC task force said in its report.
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Zack Colman “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy,” task force formed by financial regulator warns. My scoop is now free to read. 135d
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Zack Colman “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy.” This is the starkest warning to date by a US financial regulator over the stresses that markets will face from climate. 134d
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Zack Colman NEW: DOE says in an unpublished study that equipping 9 Wyoming coal-fired electricity generating units with tech to capture & use carbon emissions is too expensive to be workable — unless the state joins a system like California’s cap-and-trade regime. 140d
Sponsor of climate language blasts DNC for stripping it from platform
POLITICO 154d 1 tweets
The sparring over the fossil fuel language reflects a deeper mistrust between the DNC and progressive climate activists.
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Zack Colman “I definitively did not agree to drop my amendment and there was no misunderstanding.” Sponsor of climate language blasts DNC for stripping it from platform 154d
The WAP we need
Heated.world 157d 5 tweets
The original WAP is a highly effective climate program with the potential to contribute greatly to pandemic-related economic relief.
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Zack Colman I want to hear Ben Shapiro read this by ⁦⁩ on air. 157d
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Zack Colman Methane emissions are at a global high. Trump just ditched rules rules to curb it at gas at oil & gas wells. Research shows US fossil fuels are responsible for 80% of new North American methane emissions this century. w/ 161d
Trump’s dream of a V-shape rebound slowly slips away
POLITICO 176d 3 tweets
When the economy was slipping in the second quarter, Trump pumped up the third quarter. Now the high hopes are slowly deflating.
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Zack Colman I’ve heard it many times from the oil industry, but it applies to the broader economy, too: the best thing Trump can do is get the coronavirus under control. 175d
Morgan Stanley commits to tallying its climate impact
POLITICO 185d 14 tweets
The financial giant will become the first major U.S. bank to count emissions from its loans and investments.
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Zack Colman Big news here: A major US bank will tally all the planet-warming emissions from its loans & investments. That means for the 1st time it will account for the climate impact from financing pipelines, power plants, etc. I’ve got the latest 185d
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Zack Colman NEW: Morgan Stanley will be 1st major US bank to count the greenhouse gas emissions from its financing like loans & investments as part of its own impact on climate change. That’s big - a report says the bank has financed $92b of fossil fuels since 2016. 185d
Borrowed time: Climate change threatens U.S. mortgage market
POLITICO 227d 14 tweets
"Everyone is exposed" as taxpayer-backed loans and insurance face a coming storm.
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Zack Colman People, this is a big one. US taxpayers are on the hook for BILLIONS in losses as taxpayers continue to back mortgages in the most flood-prone areas. Here's what me & found 227d
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Zack Colman “There are some systemic risks here which need to be considered and evaluated — and right now. U.S. financial regulators are much further behind in that regard.” 227d
Bernie-friendly DNC panel pushes Biden to back $16T climate plan
POLITICO 231d 3 tweets
The council's proposals are collectively more ambitious than most of the Democrats who ran for president this year.
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Zack Colman NEW: the internal DNC climate panel stacked with progressives is out with its plan, hoping to push Biden and shape the party’s platform around an ambitious $10-16T investment 231d
Red alert for northern Siberia as heat shocks threaten life on tundra
The Independent Barents Observer 241d 4 tweets
New temperature maps for the endless stretches of Russian Arctic lands bear witness of unprecedented warming.
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Zack Colman Temperatures have deviated more than 5 degrees C above normal in northern Siberia in recent months. 240d
NOAA sees busy hurricane season, as pandemic strains emergency services
POLITICO 240d 1 tweets
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said Thursday it predicts a 60 percent chance of an above-normal season this year.
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Zack Colman “What cities are telling me is they don’t have enough money right now to handle a pandemic and a major disaster at the same time. We’ve spent so much money on the pandemic and our revenues have taken such a hit because of the closures and unemployment." 240d
Traffic Is Way Down, Due To Lockdowns, But Air Pollution? Not So Much
NPR.org 247d 7 tweets
Car traffic took a big dip beginning in late March, and headlines celebrated clean air around the U.S. But an NPR analysis of EPA data tells a more troubling story.
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Zack Colman "I've read a lot of newspaper articles over the past couple weeks that have said if only we can have people telecommute one day a week across the entire basin, our air quality problems will be solved. And unfortunately, it's not that simple." 247d
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Zack Colman Researchers for the first time documented evidence of increasing cyclone intensity over 40 years. The conclusion adds to the complex debate on the human role in fueling stronger hurricanes & typhoons. 248d
'Orphaned' oil wells to squeeze state coffers
POLITICO 254d 3 tweets
The huge number of wells already abandoned and causing environmental harm is only going to grow because of the current oil market problems.
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Zack Colman The market bust that is expected to trigger a spate of bankruptcies in the oil patch is threatening to leave states holding a massive bill to seal up thousands of new "orphan" wells that pose pollution risks. 254d