I always think the hardest part of working in climate policy is understanding how grim the science is
07.03.2026 13:34
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I always think the hardest part of working in climate policy is understanding how grim the science is
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Insurers warn the climate crisis could wreck housing markets: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America is about to find out what it means to build domestic policy around an extremely volatile set of energy sources.
Meanwhile our biggest geopolitical rival shows the benefits of insulating an energy system from price shocks and exporting clean technologies.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Fixed it for you @washingtonpost.com
The Constitution gives election power to states. Federal control over elections is illegal. A fake emergency to steal control of voting is an attack on American freedom.
Areas near new data centers saw an increase in electricity costs of as much as 267%, according to a recent @bloomberg.com analysis
The Bay Area (where I used to live) and Denver (where I now live) both have versions on spare the air days when wood burning is discouraged. It’s a bigger deal than people realize!
Yup. I still remember the smell of wood smoke in my home and wish I hadn’t spent eight years breathing that into my developing lungs.
To be clear, millions of Americans use firewood for heating - including my childhood home - but that was the 1980s and we've got better options for today people to cut their energy bills.
Electricity prices are up 13% in a year but don’t worry, DOE has firewood prices locked down
All power to the people ✊
Cool, solar added 25.4 GW, 18 GW of batteries, and 5.5 GW of wind. Is that more or less than 4.2 GW?
Is America's solution to soaring energy demand hiding in plain view at retired coal plants or expensive gas plants that only run a couple hours a year?
Surplus interconnection could plug renewables into the grid without needing to build new transmission lines
youtu.be/CCzHZvjGfxc?...
I always love the chance to author a byline with @oboylemm.bsky.social - especially when it comes to telling the truth about how much coal harms consumers and threatens grid reliability
What if the government said the best way to fix a failing dam was slapping duct tape on its cracks?
That's what the House "Power Plant Reliability Act" would do for America's grid - keep our least reliable generation online instead of fixing the actual problem.
www.utilitydive.com/news/congres...
More than 99% of the new electricity generation capacity built in America in 2026 will be renewables and storage.
Why? America needs cheap electricity now, and they're the cheapest available and fastest-to-build source of power, not coal or gas or nuclear.
www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
Sorry to hear that, I've really enjoyed your journalism at Canary. Looking forward to your new gig!
Truly remarkable news from China - solar power capacity will surpass coal power capacity this year.
The world's largest emitter, and likely where the world's climate fate will be decided, is now driving the global clean energy transition.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Obama could be on Lake Street or Central today or any day over the past two months, saying something and making a scene.
He could have done the same in Little Village or anywhere else in Chicago.
But he's not here, wasn't there, and isn't helping.
This is unquestionably the best response I've seen, thank you
Well gas plants burn methane so essentially ass power
Much love to @brendan.bsky.social + @michelle-solomon.bsky.social for helping me uncover what happened during the storm, since PJM refuses to publish plant outage details.
Coal + gas fail once again during a winter storm.
20GW of generation went offline in America's largest grid during Winter Storm Fern.
DOE's policies to keep old coal plants running + expand gas dependency make our grid LESS RELIABLE + risk MORE BLACKOUTS
thepowerline.substack.com/p/fossil-fue...
The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing
Yes, sadly
Evergreen reminder the climate crisis is being done to us by fossil fuel corporations. They're literally burning our children's future to make billions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
