They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
ICYMI: I talked with Hawaii's Senator Brian @schatz.bsky.social about (among other things) current Republican efforts at permitting reform and why he is not on board, despite being pro-permitting reform in general.
In short, you're not creating a "level playing field" if Trump & Burgum are, through other means, effectively imposing a ban on solar power. Unless they stop doing that, any permitting reform is simply a blank check to fossil fuels.
The deep connection between oil and war has been a defining factor of modern geopolitics, but usually US Presidents try to downplay the link.
Not Trump. There he is on TV telling us the US has the biggest oil companies in the world and they are going to take control of Venezuela's oil. #ClimateSky
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
Qiyam Ansari tenderly holds an inhaler attached to a face mask to the face of a fluffy black cat.
Qiyam Ansari has asthma β an attack nearly killed him β and even his cat suffers from it. Their region is notorious for its air pollution.
Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas.
π Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
"Hyundaiβs internal projections highlight the rapid expected growth in green steel. According to the company, the U.S. green steel market is expected to grow at 8.5% annually through 2034, more than double the growth rate of conventional steel."
Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?
Vought is not interested in βnormalβ democratic politics: He seeks to βtraumatizeβ civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of Godβs will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his βreal Americaβ of white Christian patriarchal rule.
Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream mediaβs infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This weekβs piece:
A long paper trail reveals that Jack Posobiec, MAGAβs leading voice on βvoter fraud,β lives in Maryland but votes in Pennsylvania. slate.trib.al/VZCW5jG
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
Jeremy is one of the smartest experts working on climate and energy around and this is a critical topic. Check it out!
Living within 2 km of fracking operations in Pennsylvania greatly increases risk for childhood leukemia.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...
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Season one can be tough but stick with it.
Cover of paper from the Sierra Club titled "The Long Term Will Be Decided Now: Why Climate Risk Demands System-Level Action from Investors" (June 2025)
π£π New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making.
It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.
π Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
dolan came out right away and was like βi donβt know this guy, heβs not one of oursβ and i was sold on the new pope right away. all it took
I was thrilled to vote for James Malone today. Even more thrilled heβs my new state Senator.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
Time for a refresh! βοΈπ±
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the @sierraclub.org is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to β¨the Sustainable Finance campaignβ¨
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
On repeat.
