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The Cooldown
U.S. center-left (climate and consumer-focused)
The Cool Down is a climate and sustainability lifestyle site owned since November 2025 by Palmetto, a clean-energy company. It leans center-left, with solutions-focused, consumer-oriented stories about energy, home, and green products. It is not a hard-news outlet focused on politics, so it covers the Trump administration mostly indirectly.
Owned byOwned by Palmetto, a clean-energy and residential solar financing company, which acquired it in November 2025. Before that it was an independent startup founded in 2022 by Dave Finocchio and Anna Robertson.
LeaningU.S. center-left (climate and consumer-focused)
On the administrationmostly neutral
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun