Chuck McCutcheon
Energy/climate editor at @Axios.com. Author of books on climate change, Congress, political jargon, nuclear waste. Long-suffering NY Giants fan.
- From @amyaharder.bsky.social: Meet the unlikely poster child for the AI boom and its insatiable energy demand. www.axios.com/2026/02/06/b...
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- New from me: The electricity grid in Fern's path appears to be holding up despite outages across parts of the South. www.axios.com/2026/01/25/e...
- New from me: Winter storm puts electric utilities on alert for outages, disruptions www.axios.com/2026/01/22/w...
- New from Axios Pro Deals: General Fusion plans to go public via a SPAC valued at $1 billion. It's the second fusion company to look to the public markets for financing recently, highlighting the sector's demand for capital. www.axios.com/pro/climate-...
- Exclusive from @bengeman.bsky.social: The Solar Energy Industries Association is ramping up its advocacy for policies that help deploy storage. www.axios.com/2026/01/22/s...
- New from me: AI has an overlooked — but vital — role to play in helping to protect at-risk species, Nature Conservancy CEO Jennifer Morris said at an Axios panel in Davos. www.axios.com/2026/01/21/a...
- From @amyaharder.bsky.social in Davos: Trump's tussle with Europe over Greenland won't impede looming U.S. deals with those countries, Trump's Greek ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle predicts. www.axios.com/2026/01/21/u...
- New from me: Fusion startup Xcimer Energy plans to pick a site by year's end to host what would be the world's largest laser. www.axios.com/2026/01/20/f...
- New from me and @bengeman.bsky.social: Trump is trying to solve a political dilemma with his push for tech companies to fund new power plants: The White House is all-in on AI, but Republicans face blowback as utility bills rise. www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
- New from me: Trump plans to thwart offshore wind hit another legal snag. www.axios.com/2026/01/15/t...
- From @amyaharder.bsky.social: The climate agenda's fall from grace over the past year has been stunning — in speed, scale and scope. www.axios.com/2026/01/13/c...
- New from me: Clean-energy advocates and a Minnesota city won a partial victory Monday when a federal court judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it canceled energy-related grants in blue states. www.axios.com/2026/01/12/j...
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- Reposted by Chuck McCutcheonI'm looking for anyone that's work at a company that's either missed payroll -- or been late with paychecks. I want to hear what that's like and how that affected you. It's for a story I'm working on. Emily.peck@axios.com. You can also just DM me here or find me on Signal EmilyRPeck.71
- New from @amyaharder.bsky.social and me: Trump's decision to yank U.S. from UN climate change agencies will set back international progress on addressing the climate, observers say. www.axios.com/2026/01/08/t...
- From @bengeman.bsky.social: The top oil U.S. lobbyist sees industry interest in Venezuela — with caveats www.axios.com/2026/01/08/u...
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- New from @amyaharder.bsky.social: Commonwealth Fusion Systems, leveraging data from Siemens and an AI platform from Nvidia, is creating what it calls a "digital twin" of its demonstration machine to speed progress toward commercial fusion. www.axios.com/2026/01/06/n...
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- Many congrats to my colleague @amyaharder.bsky.social for this honor. www.forbes.com/sites/annabr...
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- New from me: Bipartisan talks to overhaul federal agencies' permitting efforts are dead unless the Trump administration reconsiders its halt of offshore wind projects, two key Democrats say. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/p...
- New from me: The House passed a bill that would streamline and speed up agencies' environmental reviews for energy and other projects — but it faces major changes in the Senate. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/h...
- Nice exclusive from @amyaharder.bsky.social: A new kind of AI-supercharged composting bin will turn fruit and vegetable scraps at Whole Foods into chicken feed — which will then help produce the grocer's own eggs. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/a...
- Ford is rethinking its EV and battery strategy, dropping the all-electric version of the F-150 Lighting and putting more into hybrid trucks and energy storage to support data centers and grid stability. www.axios.com/2025/12/15/f...
- Exclusive from @amyaharder.bsky.social: Fusion hasn't actually arrived in reality, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers is already looking to make sure it sticks around in Washington. www.axios.com/2025/12/15/f...
- New from me: Commonwealth Fusion's Bob Mumgaard often discusses the complexities of fusion — but increasingly he's talking about building the sites to make it happen. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/c...
- Breaking news from @bengeman.bsky.social: A federal judge nullified President Trump's January memo that's the partial basis for stymieing new federal permitting and leasing for wind projects. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/t...
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- New from me: A geothermal company made a startling discovery in Nevada desert with the help of AI -- www.axios.com/2025/12/04/n...
- From @bengeman.bsky.social: This economist has a plan to make your electricity bill easier to read -- www.axios.com/2025/12/02/e...
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- New from me: Your Thanksgiving turkey has a carbon footprint. share.google/0FdxhVez7uoi...
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- From @bengeman.bsky.social: The compromise at COP30 underscores the Paris Agreement's limited ability to move from aspiration to stronger real-world action. www.axios.com/2025/11/22/f...
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- New story from me: The head of Ukraine's largest private energy company says a recent U.S. LNG shipment could help his country get through a tough winter — as long as Russian attacks don't cripple his ability to get power to customers. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
- New from me: Meet three CEOs who see big money in recycling nuclear waste. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/n...
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- Reposted by Chuck McCutcheonHere's where we're at — 3:30PM ET Thursday, and still no official list of which airports are supposed to be affected starting Friday. www.axios.com/2025/11/06/f...
- New from me: Nancy Pelosi pushed climate change to the front burner as House Democrats' leader, though Republicans have undone some of her accomplishments. www.axios.com/2025/11/06/p...
- New from me: Now that they've won, Spanberger and Sherrill will seek to fulfill frequent promises on keeping down electricity costs. www.axios.com/2025/11/05/n...
- From @amyaharder.bsky.social: Bill Gates defended criticism from all sides about his controversial memo calling for a shift to prioritizing human welfare in climate debates. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/c...
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- From @amyaharder.bsky.social: Green energy stocks are making a comeback despite political headwinds. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...
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- New from me: United Airlines now using low-carbon fuel at three of its major hubs but its chief sustainability officer wants even more progress. www.axios.com/2025/10/23/u...
- I'm proud of my home state. Loud and proud. www.mensjournal.com/travel/new-s...
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- From @amyaharder.bsky.social: The man who made TED a household name is moving from ideas to (climate) action. www.axios.com/2025/10/16/c...
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- From @bengeman.bsky.social: Welcome to the next — and probably slower — phase of U.S. EV adoption after the demise of federal purchase and lease subsidies. www.axios.com/2025/10/01/e...
- From @bengeman.bsky.social: Tesla is telling EPA it shouldn't proceed with plans to rescind the legal underpinning for carbon emissions rules and scuttle tailpipe CO2 standards. www.axios.com/2025/09/25/t...
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- We're rebranding @axios.com's Generate newsletter as Future of Energy on Monday. It'll be similar to Generate but with even greater focus on energy, featuring @amyaharder.bsky.social and @bengeman.bsky.social, two of the most talented reporters in the biz. Sign up here: www.axios.com/signup/axios...
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- From @amyaharder.bsky.social, making her return to Axios: What air conditioning, AI and Vegas' Sphere tell us about energy. www.axios.com/2025/09/08/a...
- New story from me: Two nuclear startups' announcements of progress on turning radioactive waste into usable fuel for electricity show the idea is getting its day in the sun. www.axios.com/2025/09/05/o...
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- From @bengeman.bsky.social: Dozens of climate scientists on released a detailed rebuttal of the Energy Department's contrarian climate report, alleging "pervasive problems" with the work. www.axios.com/2025/09/02/d...
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- Katrina struck 20 years ago this week. I was at the late Newhouse News Service, whose papers included the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and spent a day flying over the Gulf. I'll never forget what I saw. web.archive.org/web/20060107...
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- Latest Trump-Newsom battle: Justice Department sues California in an effort to block the state's enforcement of emissions standards for trucks. www.axios.com/2025/08/15/t...
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