Maura Barrett
@ByMauraBarrett
biz/tech correspondent @scrippsnews | chi + elsewhere | past: @nbcnews + @comatbu | sounds like “more-uh”
🚨 News: I’ve joined @ScrippsNews as Business & Tech Correspondent! I’ll be covering how innovation, markets & climate shape our future. 👉 Send story tips: [email protected]
Analysis: "We can hope to see states more aggressively pursuing energy transitions not reliant on fossil fuels; countries like the US that choose to ignore this will be left behind in the global economy." scrippsnews.com/science-and-te…
Just going to leave this here ahead of President Trump's visit to the Federal Reserve today.
New @nytimes op-ed by former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt
An @EPA spox to confirms @scrippsnews that @EPA sent its "Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards" proposal to OMB on June 30, which will be published for public once through interagency review & signed by the Administrator.
"The E.P.A. intends to argue that imposing climate regulations on automakers poses the real harm to human health because it would lead to higher prices and reduced consumer choice." nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…
"The E.P.A. intends to argue that imposing climate regulations on automakers poses the real harm to human health because it would lead to higher prices and reduced consumer choice." nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…
Kicking off my first conference with a @scrippsnews press badge: @aspen_climate in Chicago!
⬇️ @Meta's Global Affairs Officer joining President Trump today on energy -- one day after Zuckerberg announced hundreds of billions in investment into "world's largest AI compute infrastructure."
Looking forward to joining @SenMcCormickPA for the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy & Innovation Summit. @Meta is proud to play a role in the AI revolution that will create jobs & opportunities for working families in PA and across America. READ Sen. McCormick’s full op-ed 👇
From DHS via @HaleyBullNews: "FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens. The old processes are being replaced because they failed Americans in real emergencies."
Zeldin sounds like he's about to bust the chemtrail conspiracy theory wide open and that's how his friend RFK Jr seems to take it, but when you click through to his "release", you get the boring facts. No one is poisoning you from the sky, per EPA.
The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency. I tasked my team @EPA to compile everything we know about contrails and geoengineering to release to you now publicly. I want you to know EVERYTHING I know about these topics, and without ANY exception! epa.gov/newsreleases/e…
Climate change & Texas flooding: Experts add the event was driven by exceptionally rare meteorological conditions that cannot be explained by natural variability alone. scrippsnews.com/science-and-te…
Funds frozen by the Trump admin interfered with the @NWS' operational ability to interface w local public safety & emergency officials leading up to the floods in central Texas. "That hasn't been happening since the beginning of the year. Those funds were frozen." @scrippsnews