Joshua Siegel
@SiegelScribe
Senior energy reporter @PunchbowlNews. Congress chronicler. Politico alum. Writer, reader, kabob eater. Chi sports fan.
Hit me up at josh@punchbowl.news
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SCOOP: Tribal support for the Senate's bipartisan permitting reform bill. The National Tribal Energy Association and Apsåalooke Nation/Crow Tribe have quietly submitted letters of support for BAAJA that I obtained
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SCOOP in @PunchbowlNews AM: The Trump admin counters Jeffries' opposition on permitting. DOD is advancing 9 more wind projects that were held up by Pentagon. All the approvals are large new wind projects of the Cat 1 type that Democrats have been demanding, a WH official told me
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More here. @SearchlightInst also attended the briefing
Wow this is interesting 👀. The @WhiteHouse official account is promoting a solar manufacturing facility being developed in Texas after Trump's visit to the state yesterday. Ken Paxton campaign account also promoting
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is approving 3 more wind projects (2 in Illinois and 1 in Iowa) stalled by the Pentagon in a bid to win Dem support for the bipartisan permitting reform bill. It’s the 2nd tranche of ongoing approvals. Text subscribers got it first!
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NEW: Trump's offshore wind attack scares House Dems. I caught up w/Reps. Sean Casten and Mike Levin, influential clean energy hawks, who are seeking changes to the Senate permitting bill and
indicated their distrust of the admin is only growing. For @PunchbowlNews Midday
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News in @PunchbowlNews midday: Democratic staff directors of the EPW and ENR committees briefed 21 lawmakers of @NewDemCoalition on the Senate permitting reform bill today. @ThirdWayEnergy and @SearchlightInst also briefed the members
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ICYMI: There wasn't much daylight between D and R negotiators on transmission parts of permitting bill. “We shared a lot of the same goals in bringing the utility sector into the 21st century in terms of its regulatory structure," a Senate GOP aide involved in talks told me
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New in @PunchbowlNews: What's next for permitting. Negotiators say they struck a difficult balance that'll be hard to defeat. But landmines are here. There's already noise about utility lobbying vs expanded federal powers for transmission. Enviros are split. And House is a big ?
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Wow..House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone calls for a nationwide data center moratorium at start of markup of legislation on more modest Ratepayer Protection Act. Becomes highest-ranked Dem to call for this
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