Sarah T. Fischell

I will repost because I really should be thanking @casten.house.gov for these talking points. And to add 🔌💡 #EnergySky.

I think he's totally right that the power of petrostates like TX and LA inside the GOP right now is really hurting the country.

I now love the #NewWord "mediocre business person". And I think I need to practice a bunch of Rep. Casten's talking points. I've heard him make these points before, but he keeps getting better.👏 #TalkAboutClimate.

Clean Energy = Cheap Energy

Thank you @seancasten.bsky.social

#OnWeGo

/fin

What to do?

"Make political noise" (ofc I recommend @cclusa.org )

and

"the single most important thing for us to do to deploy clean energy is to be greedy" ... " = "find ways to you have to deploy clean energy and economically you will not regret that decision" - Rep. Sean Casten

7/

More important points:

- if we translate environmental into economic issues, people get it

and

- is the purpose of US energy policy to benefit consumers or producers?

6/

"You know, when people are concerned about the rising price of utilities, that is a direct result of the fact that the administration is blocking people's ability to access cheaper forms of energy" - Sean Casten

5/

"All of this is basically responding to a group of people who are deeply in the minority who are saying: "I can't compete. I am a mediocre business person who cannot create a product that is attractive to customers. Can you please protect me from competition?"" - Sean Casten

4/ (I think)

Wrt Endangerment ruling:

"there's nobody who is going to go & rip the insulation out of their home so they can start buying more natural gas."

"I don't think the consequences of this are going to be quite as bad as we might fear...bc at the end of the day, capitalism wins" - Rep. Casten
3/

"...they are not attacking clean energy. They are attacking cheap energy because they are surrounded by mediocre people who can't compete against cheap energy." - @seancasten.bsky.social 2/

YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner Trump's Attack on Clean Energy is Really an Attack on AFFORDABLE Energy!

I love @seancasten.bsky.social's talking points on clean energy is cheap energy (and visa versa).

Most recently he did an interview with @glennkirschner.bsky.social.

Here are some of his talking points. #TalkClimate (except really, let's talk about cheap energy.) 1/

youtu.be/CP87Yp15qGE?...

Tomorrow, I am talking with researcher @gruberte.bsky.social about her work on the energy "mid-transition," that messy period when fossil fuel systems are declining as clean energy systems grow. Her latest paper contemplates the "minimum viable scale" for such systems before they collapse.

Got Qs?

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Join @mliebreich.bsky.social and @roberthoglund.bsky.social, CEO of Marginal Carbon, for a deep dive into what’s working and what’s not in carbon dioxide removal and corporate climate action. Out now: www.cleaningup.live/socials/ #CleaningUpPod

“Where’s my $10,000?” - Justin Wolfers

Coal Will Need More Than the Army to Pull Off a US Revival President Donald Trump is making another major bid to bolster the shrinking US coal-power industry. He’ll use $175 million in government funds to upgrade six plants and have the Defense Department buy...

Socialism for Coal Barons…
This is America

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

These newsletters are great everyday, but Rodger was fabulous today

Read Read chapter Front Matter: The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the cli...

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

🤞🤞🤞

More ew. 🤢

Thanks so much Wall Street Journal for the free advertisement for The #NewClimateWar (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...), my book in which you play a starring role. I suspect @naomioreskes.bsky.social is thankful for you mentioning her book too! 😃

Africa's solar additions in 2025 jumped 54% to 4.5 GW.

Africa likely adds ~6.9GW of solar in 2026 and ~31GW by 2029.

Africa's solar capacity likely exceeds its coal capacity of ~52GW.

Africa's hydro is ~47GW.

Solar attacks energy poverty.
app-eu1.hubspotdocuments.com/documents/14... #energysky

Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.

All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

🤩

It’s supposed to be a +5 D district now. And I think Dems will support Mejia. But…yikes. There’s a lot of independents in those counties.

As I said: for shame.

I’ve been a ranked choice proponent for a long time.

You imply Malinowski and Sherrill love mass murder: Shame on you.

And I hope Mejia does great. But she got 30% of the Dem primary voters. It’s a little too soon to gloat.

Work on Hudson River tunnel project to resume following court order Work on the $16 billion project had largely come to a halt just hours earlier.

In what is being described as an "extraordinary and drastic" decision, a federal judge ruled in favor of New York and New Jersey to lift the federal government's suspension of funds for the $16B Gateway tunnel project.
www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

*thing = think