Ireland Owens
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Politico is discontinuing an energy and environmental news product a little over a year after the government canceled a nearly half a million dollar annual subscription to it.
Politico on Monday announced plans to shutter E&E News and introduce two new energy-focused newsletters in September, Semafor first reported. The move comes after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in February 2025 that the agency “will not be renewing our membership with Politico and Politico E&E, saving the American taxpayers $458,919 per year.” (RELATED: EPA And Private Business Helps LA Wildfire Survivors Where City Won’t)
“Best $458,919 we ever saved on behalf of taxpayers,” a spokesperson for the EPA told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The government shouldn’t subsidize poor journalism, and it’s a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat.”
“Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching a more focused, high-impact portfolio of daily news and intelligence products,” Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Politico Global Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in a joint statement on Monday. “By bringing together our reporting from Washington, U.S. state capitals, Europe, and across industry, these newsletters will help subscribers see how policy decisions, political fights, and market forces intersect to reshape energy and climate.”
Politico’s new Surge newsletter will examine how AI-driven energy demand is impacting politics and business across the U.S. and Europe, and its State Power newsletter will cover state-level energy policymaking, according to Semafor. The outlet will also refurbish its existing Morning Energy newsletter, Morning Environment newsletter and other Europe-focused energy and environmental newsletters, Semafor reported.
“As part of this shift, E&E News will no longer operate as a separate brand. Its journalism and expertise will be fully integrated into POLITICO’s energy and environment portfolio of stories, briefs, analysis and newsletters,” according to Politico’s statement. “The current E&E News publication structure will evolve into a connected set of energy and environment editorial products that share our deep reporting and strong analysis while showcasing our greater global editorial coordination.”
When reached for comment, a Politico spokesperson referred the DCNF to the company’s announcement from Monday.
E&E News is a subscription-based news organization “committed to providing non-partisan and accurate reports on essential energy and environmental issues through 5 daily publications,” according to its website.
Department of the Interior Press Secretary Charlotte Taylor told the DCNF in June 2025 that E&E News is a “desperate outlet” that solely reports on “leaks from government agencies and even high school newspapers have a bigger readership.”
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It’s truly Financial Suicide to make yourself (your business) dependent upon government funding for business operations. The political atmosphere can and often does change every four years or eight years and could turn financially unfavorable at a moments notice.
What does the government get from a $450,000 annual subscription?
Does everybody in government have access?
A copy is placed on a table in the break room. /sarc
subscriptions to POLITICO Pro cost nearly $3,000 per person
Overpriced. 🙂
What a shame.
Perhaps Poe’s Law of internet culture applies.
Indeed true, on the importance of particular comment section tags:
/sarc: on / “What a shame. It couldn’t happen to a nicer, more objective news outlet which always checks the veracity of the material it’s handed to be sure it doesn’t contain fatally faulty political opinion constructs.” /sarc: off /
What a shame.
Yeah I know. Now they have to put on their “Big Boy Panties”
It looks like AI is going to be the new looming Crisis for the Left.
They have to do something to keep the crisis atmosphere going.
The IEA say
“Orders for new natural gas fired plants surged to 130GW in 2025, a 25 year high, with US data centre demand a major factor”
“Total energy sector investment for data centre infrastructure in 2025 is estimated at USD 100bn, exceeding the total invested in Africa’s energy sector in 2025”
IEA ‘World Energy Investment 2026’ (May 2026)
Start worrying 🙂
Africa needs to invest far more then!
Subscribing to a political publication at an exorbitant price is a sneaky way to subsidize it. How “non-partisan” has that publication been?
Politico has always claimed to be non-partisan, however he’s never managed to act non-partisan.
This whole thing is just one more example of how without government support, the whole climate crisis industry collapses.
Isn’t the real headline: Another Climate Fail?
Either way, there is no mention on the Politico website that I could find. But I had no real idea of how utterly unhinged their reporting and editorial staff are.
The Liberal Democrats have already selected a raft of prospective parliamentary candidates in their target seats for Britain’s next general election, as part of a wider move to ready the centrist party for a potential return to government. – Politico
WTF?!
The Limp Dums are led by a total clown who refused to heed any advice about the software problems with Fujitsu and the Post Office when in coalition government with the Tories. Many postmasters went to jail and quite a few topped themselves. But where are the Lib Dems in the polls bearing in mind this article is only a day or two old?
Reform 28%
Tories 18%
Labour 18%
Greens 13%
Lib Dems 12%
A potential return to coalition is possible should a fractured right wing allow a coalition of Labour, Green and Lib Dem to form a government.
Nightmare scenario #1
Liberal Democrats are the “centrist party?”
Slightly to the left of Friedrich Engels
The are, when compared to full blown Marxists.
If Maureen Dowd was reporting on that previous post, she would declare MarkW claims that the Liberal Democrats are a centrist party, he says “They are …”
That 53% of the population identifies as Labour, Green, or Lib Dem does not bode well for the UK. If over half the population does not see that liberal policies have virtually destroyed a once-powerful, advanced country, then there is little hope.
One rag down. Next?
Bad journalism and a propaganda rag. Good riddance. I’m irritated that our tax dollars were funding any of that birdcage liner.
“Another one bites the dust”. Interesting when a Liberal misinformation rag loses government largess it will be called censorship.
The government is not allowed to propagandize, so they pay other people to do it for them.
Politico has always been supportive of Democrats and socialists in general.
He claimed to be unbiased, and to prove it he would occasionally praise a Republican for cooperating with Democrats and condemn a Democrat for failing to cooperate with other Democrats.
And now prosecute them for fraud.
Now do the entire EPA. And NTSB, BoM, BLM, ATF, NIS, NEA, DOE, AG.
Mental illness tip – Never mind what the Romans did for us…
Miliband comes for underfloor heating in net zero drive
Energy Secretary to introduce curbs on towel rails and gas fires in push for energy-efficient technology
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/miliband-underfloor-heating-in-net-zero-drive/