Daily on Energy: Offshore wind legal battle, nuclear fuel news, and an El Niño warning
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WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, readers! With the help of our editor, Joe Lawler, today’s edition of Daily on Energy kicks off with the latest update in the Trump administration’s battle against the offshore wind industry. 🌬️⚡ The administration is facing a lawsuit from several Democratic-led states, which claim that the administration’s […]
Patrick De Haan, a renowned oil industry analyst, had a dire warning for the American public on Tuesday as the Strait of Hormuz closure continues to pressure global oil supplies."Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz," he wrote in a post to X.In other words, he said, "this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon."The Strait of Hormuz carries around 20 percent of the world's entire global oil trade, as well as a number of other critical raw materials. It has been effectively impassible for months since the U.S. war with Iran flared up.Trump administration officials insist that the pressure on oil supplies, and with it rising gas prices, is worth the objectives they are attempting to accomplish in Iran, but both lawmakers and the voting public are not convinced, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio getting a cold reception in a hearing earlier in the day.
Responding to a new warning from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that El Niño conditions are strengthening and likely to drive more extreme weather in the coming months.Anne Jellema, Executive Director of 350.org, said:El Niño is a naturally occurring climate pattern , but its impacts are now being intensified by human-driven climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. As global temperatures rise, El Niño events are becoming more dangerous, amplifying heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires, and putting lives and livelihoods at greater risk around the world. El Niño is not new , but the conditions we are experiencing today are. Fossil fuel pollution is loading the dice, turning a natural climate cycle into a far more dangerous force. Now is the time to prepare. But preparedness alone is not enough. We must urgently tackle the root cause by phasing out fossil fuels and holding polluters accountable.A permanent windfall tax on fossil fuel companies could help countries protect lives and livelihoods as climate impacts intensify. This is also a moment for global cooperation , because no country can face this crisis alone.”350.org is calling for urgent global action to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, scale up support for climate adaptation, and ensure those most responsible for the crisis contribute to the solutions.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday hammered President Trump’s decision to make Bill Pulte the acting director of national intelligence (DNI), saying Pulte’s lack of security experience not only puts the country at risk but also threatens any bipartisan deal to reauthorize the government’s spying powers. “The appointment of Bill Pulte as the…
For years, Glenn Beck has warned that artificial general intelligence — a true master of all human intellectual tasks — will completely upend society by the year 2030. But according to internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, AGI is already here. On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he claimed that we quietly crossed the threshold with the latest chatbot models like GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Grok 4.3, and Gemini 3. Andreessen declared that these models now outperform top human experts in many domains. Glenn believes this is critical information. Like electricity, telephones, television, the internet, and other general-purpose technologies that are so powerful and broad they fundamentally reshape how society, economies, and daily life function, AGI will revolutionize the world. Is humanity ready to navigate the rapids, or will it crash on the rocks of blind trust and indiscrimination? Unlike the aforementioned technologies whose transformative powers were slow, AI is “coming at the speed of light,” Glenn says. “And because of that, there will be almost no chance to adapt or to stop and think, ‘Wait a minute, what is it we’re losing? And what is it we’re gaining here?’” he warns. AGI, Glenn explains, will render much of the world’s experts obsolete. “This is a tool that touches every single field at once: medicine, law, education, programming, finance, therapy, research, media, art, science — everything,” he says. In his conversation with Rogan, Andreessen claimed that medical doctors are already relying heavily on AI models to assist in diagnosing and treating patients. “When doctors are using this in examination rooms, you need to pay attention,” Glenn says, “because it’ll reveal something really important that always comes first in history, and that’s this: The experts themselves already know.” “While we’re sitting here using it as a toy and debating whether AI is useful, the professionals, the ones who have those deep credentials, they’ve already quietly moved on to depending on it,” he continues. Adoption before disruption, Glenn says, has long been the pattern. “Factories automate before workers hear about it; banks digitize before the tellers disappear; retailers optimize before the storefronts close. The future arrives inside the institution first,” he explains. While this seems like apocalyptic news, he acknowledges the bright side: People who learn how to use AGI to their genuine advantage by employing it as their own personal “staff” will not only avoid being replaced; they’ll create new opportunities that were impossible before. “With AI, if you know how to prompt, a small company can compete against giant corporations. A teenager can launch a product that used to have millions in capital behind it. ... A single mom can get tutoring, legal explanations, business advice, health analysis ... free,” Glenn says. “The upside of this is staggering.” But there is a dark side that “matters just as much,” he warns. While access to information has been democratized, judgment remains a skill that must be cultivated with care. “When everyone has access to infinite information, discernment becomes priceless,” Glenn says. He fears that those who never learned how to think critically and ask questions will blindly follow whatever AI tells them, perhaps to their demise. “I can ask AI how to treat symptoms, but do I know the right questions to ask to see if that analysis of what I’m treating is wrong? ... You can ask it legal advice, but do you know when you need a real, actual, physical attorney?” Glenn comments.When people lose that “living moral compass” inside them — the one that detects manipulation, corruption, and ill advice — we’re in a dark age indeed. “That’s why I have said you will be lost without the spirit to guide you,” Glenn says, “because [AI arguments are] going to be so overwhelmingly well-crafted, you may not know what is true.” “The whole thing is not whether machines can think. Yes. The real question is whether humans can still think, and I’m not sure about that.” To hear more, watch the video above.
Now for a little dose of good news: while some companies are clinging to Pride-themed ad campaigns in June, one of the most notorious offenders is going all-in for Americana just ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday. Target’s homepage on Tuesday featured a man and woman with children smiling and clad in red, white, and ...
Democratic strategist James Carville has some advice for Texas’ Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. While Talarico might be the left’s best hope of getting a desperately-needed foothold […]
