Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Firms Have Doubled Since 2017, Now $35 Billion a Year

Federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry have more than doubled since 2017 to an estimated $34.8 billion each year, a new analysis from Oil Change International has found. The report’s authors say that amount could soar to hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come if lawmakers fail to rein in subsidies for controversial carbon capture and hydrogen technologies.

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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy https://theconversation.com/big-beautiful-bill-will-have-americans-paying-higher-prices-for-dirtier-energy-260588

It accelerates the phaseout of tax credits for factories that manufacture equipment needed for renewable energy and electric vehicles. That would disrupt the boom in domestic manufacturing projects that had been stimulated by the Inflation Reduction Act.

#USPol #BigBeautifulBill #InflationReductionAct

Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits

This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.

7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag

SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.

7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag

If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.

7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag

Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.

7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag

Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.

#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS

Climate policy faces setback as House Republicans advance bill against Inflation Reduction Act. #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalPolicy #InflationReductionAct

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052025/inside-clean-energy-republican-ira-repeal/