Shravya Jain-Conti

It's pretty clear this year I'm not going to have patience for the folks at work who don't give a damn about fixing the current moment.

Miliband and Jørgensen: Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity Today’s summit will be fundamental in delivering the energy security and prosperity Europe desperately needs.

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The security risk of fossil fuels in a fractured world As leaders set the tone for 2026 at Davos, Venezuela stands as a cautionary case

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Who are my experts working on methane/methane mitigation in the O&G industry/advocacy around methane reduction/ the Global Methane Pledge or related? HMU I would like to talk!

Will the lettuce wilt first or will this speech end first

Trump hates wind turbines because almost two decades ago he found out that an offshore one was planned near a golf course he was building. That's it. But that kicked off a hatred that has lingered and been backfilled with other rationales.
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There are so many climate-related disasters that upend the lives of entire communities or regions while scarcely registering in the places most responsible for them.

Starting a running thread of these increasingly-frequent events

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

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I tried a therapist this week to focus solely on politics and climate anxiety. She sent me away with breathing exercises and stuff so we're going to try someone new.

The specific "Infrastructure week/industrial unions/Midwest" theme that animated Biden 2020 is dead and gone. Whatever comes next has to be different on that front.

🤯 81% of global #oil reserves now sit within the U.S. sphere of influence🇺🇲 .

#Oil dependency has never been more vulnerable and risky.

As #Trump meets #Venezuela opposition leader #Machado today, we at @350.org did the math on oil’s geopolitical risk:

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I once tried to get a short fiction published where they blamed climate impacts on black magic. And i can see why it never got published -- it wasn't fiction was it

Venezuela - A Misguided Scramble for Stranded Oil Geopolitical theatre forces an oil sector harvesting cash to confront a political desire for high risk growth, leaving private investors most exposed.

We are witnessing a fundamental shift: from a 20th-century rush for geopolitical control of fossil resources to a 21st-century geo-political scramble for expensive and stranded assets in a declining industry – providing far more theatre than production.
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Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

Japan is likely to stay the course on fighting climate change despite the U.S.’s recent decision to exit from international climate organizations, experts say. 👉 ebx.sh/hi1N89

Whom amongst us doesn't yearn for the days of rivers catching fire and asthma from smog. This is a good decision

Why Afro-Venezuelans Oppose U.S. Intervention in Venezuela More than half of Venezuelans identify as having African ancestry, the highest rate of the world’s Spanish-speaking nations.

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U.S. Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too The Trump administration’s oil grab and plans to expand Venezuelan production flouts last year’s landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice.

By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.'
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In Venezuela, Trump expands his anti-climate empire The U.S. president’s fossil fuel-powered world vision is a bet on the energy transition failing.

Trump's vision for Venezuela's oil is a wager that the energy transition will not come.

Latest here w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social

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Wind, solar, & batteries represent 95% of ALL of the new electricity capacity that came online in the U.S. last year.

Electricity demand is skyrocketing because of AI and the government is restricting supply & making building renewables illegal to build in the U.S.

Your energy bills are going up.

Bottom basement of hell

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US climate retreat hits Kenya's drylands In Taita Taveta, county officials and conservation managers are rechecking budgets as climate-funded programmes face fresh uncertainty.

US withdrawal from UN entities isn't just a US story. It has awful global implications --

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The hidden consequences of New Mexico’s latest oil boom - High Country News Carlsbad residents are experiencing health impacts, but the science behind their woes lags behind the pace of drilling.

The age of fossil fuels is ending. The O&G industry is trying to delay that ending. Do not let them. They are not our friends. And they are certainly not good neighbors.

The UN withdrawal from UNFCCC, IPCCC and other UN entities is straight out of Project 2025. Are there any Republicans who have come out against this move?

Quitting and Rejoining Global Climate Agreements: What’s at Stake for the United States Despite President Trump's announcement, countries, companies, and people must invest in climate solutions to increase affordable energy and economic well-being, lower pollution, and protect biodiversi...

A future US president will find it easy to re-enter the UNFCCC, suggests analysis by Jake Schmidt of NRDC www.nrdc.org/bio/jake-sch...

As with tariffs, and Broadway, Trump’s personal views on oil seem to have congealed sometime in the 1980s and are shellacked in place

Q&A: John Bolton on Trump’s Venezuelan oil grab “The idea that American oil companies are just lining up to go invest in Venezuela is just flatly wrong,” he told POLITICO's E&E News.

"So the policy is always in flux. It never stabilizes, and people are constantly having to make adjustments there.

There’s no Plan B because there’s no plan A."

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