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Archives for June 2025

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
The US is trying to throw out power plant pollution rules.

This saga has spanned several administrations since President Obama first tried to enact limits on greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Donald Trump tried to replace those rules with his own, weaker standards, only to be stymied by Joe Biden changing course.

“We are proposing to repeal Obama and Biden rules that have been criticized as regulating coal, oil, and gas out of existence,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Trump reportedly plans to sunset the main federal government website on climate change.

Climate.gov will soon stop publishing new content after most of the people maintaining the website saw their contacts terminated, the Guardian reports. We don’t know yet if the website will continue to be accessible to the public.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
New Glenn’s second test gets pushed back.

SpaceX rival Blue Origin had been planning a launch in “late spring,” following a successful first test in April, but CEO Dave Limp now says the target is August 15th. This time one of the key aims is to land and recover the booster, named “Never Tell Me The Odds” — one of the few points of failure from the first time out.

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Dominic Preston
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Trump-Musk update.

An update on how the extremely public political breakup is going today, as protestors face off with federal immigration agents in Los Angeles.

  • Elon Musk deleted his tweet claiming Donald Trump prevented the release of Jeffrey Epstein files because he’s in them.
  • Trump told NBC News the Epstein links were “old news,” that he had no desire to repair their relationship, and when asked if it’s over, said, “I would assume so, yeah.”
  • The Washington Post cites a source claiming Trump referred to Elon as “a big-time drug addict” on a phone call.
  • A YouGov poll of 3,812 US adults found 41 percent of respondents supported the federal government ending Musk’s subsidies and contracts.
  • NASA and Pentagon officials reportedly urged competitors to develop SpaceX alternatives after Musk’s “terrifying” threat to decommission the Dragon spacecraft.
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
1 million Powerwalls.

While sales of Tesla cars have suffered greatly since Elon Musk extended his arm and wallet to politics globally, his Starlink and Tesla Energy products have continued to do well. There’s lots of EV competition, but zero alternatives for cheap and fast consumer internet that can be quickly deployed in data dead zones, or whole home battery backup systems with a proven track record and terrific user experience. Although the competitors are quickly gearing up to address the latter.