How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
How environmental destruction is built into corporate design

2026, #17 Hi there! Welcome to Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List, where we know climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal, oil, and fossil gas (“natural” gas), and that burning fossil gas in our homes makes us sick. There are 63 jobs and
From records of food insecurity (#hunger) to the costs of natural disasters to the causes of infant mortality, (and others) the federal government is no longer recording and preserving data on significant national risks and policies.
#economy #climate #climatepolicy #dataretention #nationaldatabases #infantmortality #pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data
Who Gets to Adapt? Robert W. Collin on climate inequality and the politics of who is protected – review
Leakage
Measuring and fixing methane leaks isn't rocket science. The technology and standards are known. The EU methane law asked only for the obvious: measure, document, reduce.
Now penalties are to be quietly suspended via internal guidelines – no parliament, no vote – during "supply crises".
Under pressure from the US and the fossil fuel industry.
"Energy security" as a blank cheque for inaction.
https://whbl.com/2026/05/06/european-commission-weighs-suspending-methane-fines-during-energy-emergencies-ft-reports
#Methane #ClimatePolicy #FossilFuels #EUGreenDeal #EnergyPolicy

By Kate Abnett May 6 (Reuters) - The European Commission has drafted plans to let oil and gas companies avoid penalties for breaching the EU's methane emissions law, a draft document seen by Reuters showed, after pressure from industry and the United ...
Anthropic, founded as a safety-focused alternative to aggressive AI labs, has leased SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 data center (220,000 GPUs). The deal addresses capacity constraints but ties the company's compute to infrastructure facing Clean Air Act litigation. Worth watching how compute consolidation reshapes AI competition.
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-was-built-to-counter-musk-today-it-became-his-customer/

Anthropic CPO Ami Vora announced Wednesday that the company will lease 100% of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, doubling Claude Code rate limits this month. The deal sits inside a federal Clean Air Act fight over xAI's Memphis-area operations and arrives ahead of SpaceX's IPO.
Carbon removal companies are reframing their climate pitch around energy dominance to secure federal funding under Trump's administration.

2026, #16 Hi there! Welcome to Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List, where we know climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal, oil, and fossil gas (“natural” gas), and that burning fossil gas in our homes makes us sick. There are 69 jobs and
Carbon offsets are terrible. They are still the most effective tool we have. If we truly want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to start treating them as such.
Link: https://thecoin.io/#/blog/offsets-effective
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#CarbonOffsets #ClimateAction #BuildInPublic #ClimatePolicy #ClimateFinance #LongRead