Matto Mildenberger

Newsom Signs Climate, Energy Bills Charting State Course Through Perilous ‘Mid-Transition’ | KQED California has been at the forefront of bold climate policy. Now, the state is one of the first to face a messy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Last week’s bills are important steps in California’s contribution to fighting climate change. But the inclusion of oil-industry handouts in bills like SB 237 was a raw deal we didn’t need to make.

My thoughts for @lauraklivans.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org

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On a new episode of A Matter of Degrees, the legendary @billmckibben.bsky.social joins the show to talk about the potential of solar power and to get inspired for @sundayofaction.bsky.social - a day of action to celebrate the power of clean energy!

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Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

I love it!

An outbreak of sanity in TX.

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CBC has projected a "liberal government" in Canada in which means it's time for my pedantic every four year gripe with Canadian media that you cannot project a government based on seat count until they cross the majority threshold.

Ugh. This is horrible. So sorry!

Really horrible news. I'm so sorry

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Dependent America? - University of Toronto Press

Thinking about my mentor and friend Stephen Clarkson, who would be flabbergasted by "North American" politics now. But he'd feel vindicated by our 2011 book Dependent America?, which previewed how much US economic power and security depends on Canada and Mexico. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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How 1776-ish of you

I think this means you are required to tell us all what to do as the overlapping set :)

Congratulations!!!!

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not *legible*. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

Initially once a year (via tax returns!) which was quite silly from a visibility perspective. Later, they switched to quarterly direct deposits. Cheques would have been better (as arguably the Trump stimulus cheques worked well!)

The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes - IOPscienceSearch The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes, Anders Fremstad, Matto Mildenberger, Mark Paul, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

Also a paper in US/Switzerland showing that mild political cues erode hypothetical preferences for progressive rebate structures: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing - Nature Climate Change Carbon tax rebate programmes have received increasing interest with the potential to raise public support for carbon pricing. However, results of online surveys based on existing real-world policies d...

Yeah. We published this piece a few years ago which you probably saw: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We have a more recent paper I can share a draft of which shows that, no matter how you cut it, ideology trumps material factors in shaping people's preferences for carbon rebates.

Truly utterly insane. A memory care facility!!

I'm sorry - they are really thinking about nominating another House Republican for an admin position (Graves to FAA???). I'm sure Johnson can pass a massive reconciliation bill in the first 100 days with a 216-215 house majority, easiest lift for a house speaker ever.

Court rejects Virginia’s exit from RGGI The decision is a blow to Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who initiated efforts to withdraw from the carbon trading program.

ICYMI (I first learned about this from @prof-b-t.bsky.social's feed): turns out a governor can't unilaterally undo the will of the legislature, in this case for Virginia to be part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI):
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Can't wait for my native New Brunswick (pop: 775k) to become the new Wyoming and get the same number of Dem Senators as California. Lol. 10 new Canadian states would be a terrific way to break the filibuster!

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

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I never saw this. Amazing!!!

Great thread on the insanity of the current moment

Agreed. Savvy threat that creates credible shareholder pressure on Tesla/Musk.

This seems like a savvy threat on California's part. Offers some market certainty for EV models in short-term while creating credible stakeholder pressure on Tesla/Musk

California Governor Newsom to propose clean vehicle rebate if Trump cuts EV tax credit California Governor Gavin Newsom will propose a new version of the state's discontinued Clean Vehicle Rebate Project if the incoming Donald Trump administration scraps the federal tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases, his office said on Monday.

Mobilization against federal retrenchment creates unexpected political coalitions. A California EV tax credit that excludes Tesla is one such example. Will be interesting to see how much states spend and do that can only happen in opposition to federal inaction. www.reuters.com/business/aut...