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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Professor, Environmental Studies🌎 San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com 📍Popeloutchom, Monterey Bay 🌅🦦
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The Imperial Valley and Salton Sea lie at the confluence of so much complex human and natural history in the North American West. In addition to the paper below, for the region’s environmental history I highly recommend Traci Brynne Voyles’ Settler Sea. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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If you want to understand the messy realities of the solar revolution, then start in the Imperial Valley and Salton Sea. And if you want to understand these: read Dustin Mulvaney.

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Imperial Valley is both a major agricultural producer and solar power producer in California. This paper situates the history of solar development in the context of the region's Indigenous history, biodiverse landscapes, and water and agricultural political economies. rdcu.be/epvQW

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If you’re interested in the history of how the first solar project approved by the Bureau of Land Management, and the California Energy Commission ended up not getting built, and how the largest solar project in the USA got built on farmland instead. This paper is for you. #EnergySky #GreenSky☀️🔌💡

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I feel like not enough people pushing "streamlining" concepts have to directly answer the question: is this project site worth risking this species' extinction?

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We refuse to stay silent while ICE terrorizes working class communities. We are turning out and standing united in solidarity with @seiuca.bsky.social calling on the release of SEIU President David Huerta!

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📢 ACTION ALERT: As many of you have likely seen ICE is conducting a series of raids in the Los Angeles area. Things are moving quickly some locals already have folks in the field. David Huerta was just arrested in SoLA opposing the raids. We have to show up for our siblings!✊🏾

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Thing is, if they occur, these cuts are going to blow a giant hole in the CSU-UC opportunity machine for CA’s (and many other state’s) young people. They would be anti-future, anti-working families, anti-young people. That is what this will do. I truly hope the President doesn’t do it.

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There was an Atlantic article by a permitting reform bro from 2022 that talked about NIMBYs blocking a solar project near San Diego; this is that project.

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The Imperial Valley solar project would have required translocating up to 2,000 flat-tailed horned lizards. They look like little dinosaurs. #herps 🦎

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If you’re interested in the history of how the first solar project approved by the Bureau of Land Management, and the California Energy Commission ended up not getting built, and how the largest solar project in the USA got built on farmland instead. This paper is for you. #EnergySky #GreenSky☀️🔌💡

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Travel advisory from our university to students/scholars from affected countries advising them against international travel and to come home asap if currently abroad, before June 9, the day new travel restrictions go into effect. #AcademicSky 🧪

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Ooh, this is going to be good!

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Speaking of the Salton Sea....

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Ms Blue at 87-feet long is the one of the largest blue whale skeletons on display in the world. 🐋 #SavetheWhales

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@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social was nice enough send an update of PG&E and Moss Landing. Here @canarymedia.com's Julian Spector provides more details. I will follow up on the County's efforts for an improved Emergency Action Plan when I return from my trip. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

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New paper! Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California. ☀️🔌💡 #solarpower #justtransition #energysky #greensky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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This is the paper I was taking photographs for when swarmed by border patrol along the US-Mexico border last fall. Mount Signal and the 794 MW Mount Signal Solar Power Plant, one of the largest solar projects in the United States.☀️

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The Imperial Valley Solar Project case study in this paper was the first utility scale solar energy facility in the United States to get federal and state approval.

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Owens Lake: Naturally occurring body of water that during glacial periods has an outlet to a much larger system of lakes. Was destroyed to give Los Angeles water. Tulare Lake: Naturally occurring body of water sitting over a mantle drip(?), destroyed for Central Valley Agriculture. Salton Sea:....

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Lichen this post a lot.

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Senator Heinrich repeating the talking point about 17 years of environmental review for Sunzia is rich because the Senator from NM caused a multi-year delay himself by requiring a Dept of Defense report on burying the transmission lines near white sands missile base; developer later moved the line!

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My take on so-called "greens" supporting the demolition of NEPA? Democracy isn't democracy only when it's convenient for you. Democracy is for all of the time or it isn't democracy at all. Here's my take on the Supreme Court's disastrous NEPA decision. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I wish I could Google my old articles without provoking AI hallucinations

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