HEATED/Atkin: Retrenchment, Burnout, Questioning

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 2, 2025

“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”

The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:

In 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….

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Happy New Year from MasterResource

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 31, 2024

Seventeen years, 3,905 posts, 980 categories, 167 authors. And the contributions read as well today as when they were written, ‘as if led by an invisible hand’. That’s worth celebrating!

Here is to a healthy and prosperous new year to our many readers!…

Stop Out-the-Door Grants and Loans, DOE!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 30, 2024

This letter of December 4, 2024, to Jigar Shah (Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy) was from Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce; Jeff Duncan: Chair, Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security; and H. Morgan Griffith: Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. A similar plea to Shah by solar executive David Bergeron is here.

Dear Director Shah,

We write to you concerning the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) and its push to rush out loans and loan guarantees in the closing days of the current administration.

Reportedly, the LPO is scrambling to close the $25 billion in pending loans under that program before President Biden leaves office. [1] The LPO has closed on eight loans in just over two months.…