Extreme Temperature Diary- Saturday October 11th, 2025/Main Topic: Trump’s Energy Cuts Punished Mostly Blue States. Red States Might Be Next. – Guy On Climate
Dear Diary. Former President Biden did some great things for our climate. Finally a large chunk of government money was being invested in green energy projects that would help the U.S. steer away from relying in fossil fuels to generate energy. Trump, on the other hand, is totally in the back pocket of fossil fuel interests, so he is trying his best to destroy Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act initiatives. We as a species just won’t leave money in the ground, even though we know that by extracting it that act will hurt us in the long run.
It’s now obvious that Trump wants to punish blue states for voting against him in 2024. One way of doing this is to axe money allocated to them for renewable energy and battery projects. It now appears that red states won’t get as much money to support green energy projects as well.
Here are more details from the New York Times:
Trump’s Energy Cuts Punished Mostly Blue States. Red States Might Be Next. – The New York Times
Trump’s Energy Cuts Punished Mostly Blue States. Red States Might Be Next.As New York and other states tally the damage, a leaked document suggests more Energy Department cuts may be coming. Workers at a direct air capture facility under construction in Texas last year.Credit…Ariana Gomez for The New York Times
  By Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer
Reporting from Washington
Oct. 8, 2025
The Energy Department’s cancellation of $7.5 billion in Biden-era awards for clean energy projects is poised to cause significant job losses and disruptions, leaders of several states have said, even as internal documents suggest that the agency may be contemplating deeper cuts in the months ahead.
The agency’s termination of more than two dozen grants in New York State alone would threaten more than 1,000 jobs and nearly $500 million in investments in the state, according to figures compiled by the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, and reviewed by The New York Times.
The New York figures represent the first official tally of how the funding cuts, which so far have largely targeted Democratic-led states, would affect the state and its growing clean energy sector. They come as President Trump appears to be seeking to maximize the pain of the government shutdown for his political opponents, including Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House minority leader.
At the same time, many lawmakers and companies fear that the Energy Department could soon cancel even more funding, including for projects in Republican-led states. An internal document circulating among lobbyists and lawmakers suggests that the agency is considering terminating an additional $12 billion in Biden-era awards, including funding for two large projects in Louisiana and Texas that aimed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Technology that removes carbon dioxide, a main driver of global warming, is supported by some oil and gas companies that want to use that captured gas to extract more crude from mature oil fields. One of the federal hubs would have been located in the Louisiana district of Representative Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker.
The Energy Department said on Wednesday it had not made any final decisions beyond the initial $7.5 billion in cancellations announced last week.
“The department continues to conduct an individualized and thorough review of financial awards made by the previous administration,” Ben Dietderich, a spokesman for the Energy Department, wrote in an email. “No determinations have been made other than what has been previously announced. Any reporting suggesting otherwise is false.”
In New York, most of the canceled funding would have gone toward Democratic congressional districts. But some of the money would have benefited Republican districts in the blue state, including those of Representatives Nick Langworthy and Mike Lawler.
“By refusing to stand up to Trump, New York Republicans in Congress are stabbing their own constituents in the back,” Ms. Hochul said in a statement. “Instead of celebrating the opening of a local factory or congratulating a neighbor on their new six-figure job, these Congress members would rather stand idly by as Trump strips their communities of 21st century economic opportunity.”
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The Energy Department had awarded more than $26 million to two companies in Mr. Lawler’s Hudson Valley district, including a company developing advanced batteries. “I’m in New York and I’m a Republican, and obviously this project cancellation impacts my district, so it’s not just Democrats getting impacted,” Mr. Lawler told CNN.
A spokesman for Mr. Lawler, Ciro Riccardi, blamed Democrats for the shutdown. “None of this would be happening if Senator Schumer and his caucus hadn’t shut down the government at the behest of Hakeem Jeffries,” he wrote in an email.
In the Central New York district of Representative John Mannion, a Democrat, a factory that makes parts for electric heat pumps may no longer pursue a $25 million expansion after the Energy Department canceled a $5 million grant to help pay for the project. The expansion of the Bitzer Scroll plant would have added a new assembly line, initially creating 20 jobs.
“The whole thing of Trump bringing jobs back to America is completely running in reverse for us,” John Allcott, vice president of North American operations for Bitzer Scroll, told the local media outlet Syracuse.com. “It’s just killing us.”
For months, political appointees at the Energy Department have been reviewing billions of dollars worth of climate and infrastructure spending that had been awarded by the Biden administration, claiming that the money was rushed out the door but providing few details about specific problems.
In recent weeks, the Energy Department sent the White House’s Office of Management and Budget a list of roughly $23 billion in funding that it had marked for potential termination, according to two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to describe internal documents.
The Trump administration initially chose to slash a subset of those funds, about $7.5 billion, that were largely concentrated in blue states. The cuts underscored the administration’s strategy of putting pressure on Democrats to accept a Republican budget bill and reopen the government.
“Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being canceled,” Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, wrote in a social media post last week.
Those projects include major upgrades to electrical grids in California, Minnesota and Oregon; efforts to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations in Colorado; and large hubs to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuels in California and the Pacific Northwest.
This week, however, a leaked list marking an additional $12 billion in potential terminations has been circulating in Washington. It indicated that funding could be canceled for dozens of projects in Republican-led states as well.
That larger list of potentially affected projects includes the five remaining clean hydrogen hubs in places like Appalachia, the Gulf Coast, the Midwest and Texas, many of which aimed to produce hydrogen from natural gas. It would also include a variety of grants for retooling automotive factories to produce electric vehicles or to recycle lithium-ion batteries.
The list of expanded targets also suggests that the Energy Department is considering axing up to $1.2 billion in awards for so-called direct air capture hubs in Louisiana and Texas. Those hubs, authorized by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, aimed to test and scale up technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It is uncertain whether or when the Energy Department might go through with this additional wave of cuts, and the leaked list has set off a furious lobbying battle in Washington to save projects. Some companies that would be directly affected by the cuts said they had not heard of any final decisions.
“We aren’t aware of a decision from D.O.E. and continue to productively engage with the administration in a project review,” said Vikrum Aiyer, head of global policy at Heirloom, a company working on carbon dioxide removal and a main participant in Louisiana’s direct air capture hub.
Companies or universities that receive federal awards typically sign a legally binding agreement and then spend their own money, on the expectation that they will be reimbursed by the government. Any recipients that have their funding axed could potentially sue the Energy Department, just as recipients from the Environmental Protection Agency have sued after the Trump administration canceled their grants.
Maxine Joselow covers climate change and the environment for The Times from Washington.
Brad Plumer is a Times reporter who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming.
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Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA
Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.
Map credit:Jim Jiang — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T13:16:25.528Z
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN: 35C!
This is the most extreme event in Japanese history.
October records pulverized (see list below).
Also incredible hot nights with Mins up to 28C (above July average):
28.0 Izena
26.2 Yakushima
Much hotter next week! — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T09:40:28.218Z
Maximum temperatures in MEXICO yesterday
3 stations >= 44C between Sonora and Sinaloa, the world's hottest spots.
Another exceptionally hot night with minimums up to 29C today and high humidity.
This persistent humid heat and hot nights is unprecedented in the area. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T18:33:15.864Z
44.2C today in Culiacan Int. Airport is also its
HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY for any month — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T00:35:52.987Z
HISTORIC HEAT IN MEXICO
Brutal heat today with 44.2C at Culiacan,
Hottest October day in history
(world hottest place today)
Since July, the North Pacific Mexico has been breaking record no-stop ,continuosly.
More records tomorrow — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T00:22:34.154Z
We’re entering a fascinating new phase of the #climate end-game, one where leaders, from Mark Carney in Canada to Micheál Martin here, perfectly understand how dire the situation is, yet decide - choose - to do absolutely nothing.
theconversation.com/mark-carneys... — John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 (@thinkorswim.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T23:47:20.354Z
Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade: buff.ly/40xQeaG
There is no time to wait. All the warning lights are blinking and new pipelines aren't the answer. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy @MarkJCarney — Mike Hudema (@mikehudema.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T18:07:13.993Z
“We have now seen three of the five worst harvests on record this decade after extreme weather, telling a story of escalating #climate impacts that farmers are unable to cope with”.
Tick. Tock.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... — John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 (@thinkorswim.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T09:47:56.627Z
Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather bites
#climate
eciu.net/media/press-... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T08:43:16.029Z
The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.
grist.org/climate/the-...
#Ocean #Climate #Heat #Science #Environment — Grist (@grist.org) 2025-10-11T16:58:49.938Z
No hurricanes, but yikes:
—TS #Jerry drenching the N Leeward Islands
—Moisture from TS #Priscilla that could trigger flash floods in the SW US
—The northernmost named Atlantic storm on record (#Karen)
—Plus one heck of a mid-Atlantic coastal storm brewing
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/kare... — Bob Henson (@bhensonweather.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T19:31:09.682Z
Death cult does it's thing.
#Trump #US #renewables #climate
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T07:45:26.112Z
This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap.
A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.
grist.org/climate/this...
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Thank you. We also have some of the most unique biodiversity in the world. In addition we have a very harsh Southern #climate already so INCREASING #FossilFuels extraction and #exports will result in severe loss of life here for PEOPLE. What are @australianlabor.bsky.social thinking. #auspol — Kate-Eviva (@kate-eviva.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T03:10:49.128Z
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Even on Gilligan's Island, they trusted the scientist, not the rich guy
www.laresistance47.com/shop/p/gilli... — LaResistance47 (@laresistance47.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T20:24:06.723Z
No shit!
"New research warns that modern agricultural methods are placing the global food supply at increasing risk by weakening the natural resilience of the world’s soils."
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An amazing story highlighting nature’s resilience. It was so exciting when 100+ year old seeds started growing as part of this wetland restoration. Now scientists have discovered historic fauna too.
#nativeplants #rewilding #climate #nature
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... — CottageGardener Ⓥ (@cottagegardener.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T12:00:17.505Z
There are 26,000 polar bears left on the planet. By the end of the century, climate change could bring them to extinction as the melting of the Arctic increases: buff.ly/3HnL4Yi
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #biodiversity #rewilding #SDGs — Mike Hudema (@mikehudema.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T18:08:06.111Z
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