This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
Wind turbine base install
There are like 3 of us and everyone yells at us but I'm gonna keep saying it: data centers are the test case and opportunity to get this shit right.
Muni is the best way home from the playoff-bound @wgoldenstate.bsky.social’s game — let’s get it together Sacramento. Fund Bay Area transit. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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I'm very proud to showcase another example today with bespoke critical transit data fact sheets for every state legislative district in Pennsylvania.
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
The White House is clearly scared of the power states have to build the clean energy economy and is resorting to blatantly unconstitutional tactics. The Trump administration is hoping that pro-climate state governments back down in fear. How should states respond? Simple. Ramp up instead. 🧵
The LA Times found that 80% of LA County voters say they want stricter building codes to prevent wildfires and are willing to pay more to prevent devastation.
But state leaders are going in the opposite direction.
Labor, community, and industry coalitions are forming around decarbonization across the country, and we love to see it. The common ingredients in these burgeoning partnerships are labor and local community leadership, regional collaboration, and big ambition.
This only affirms my long held belief that quinces deserve more love.
Aw, not nice
"We will not win quickly or decisively or all at once. But the only way we lose is if we stop. In every state, at every level, from wherever we each stand: keep going."
Beautifully said, Dave! What a decade! So excited for these next steps!
CCS advocates have been calling for policy support for years now + they finally got it
@gruberte.bsky.social @francessawyer.bsky.social new piece lays out the high chance the US' IRA CCS incentive could end up incentivising (!!) a rise in emissions (`!~@#$!$!)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
"The bill would require electricity providers to go through a complex, time-consuming series of hearings to get permission from state regulators to close fossil fuel generators."
Run down of bills forcing PUCs to keep coal alive:
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-...
