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this practice - sucking CO2 out of the air and squirting it into old oil fields to push up more oil - is only profitable for oil companies because of tax credits in Biden's signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. stuff like this is where "all of the above" energy policy leads

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

grok 2 vs grok 3

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

We are absolutely in a time when the fossil fuel economy feels emboldened to go on the direct offensive against environment groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

$100B is about 30% of all climate spending in the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest (and only) federal climate law the US has ever passed

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 863 comments

Our new paper just dropped and the conclusion is: IRA good for America

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

One of many excellent graphics in a new report from RMI on rising utility costs and regulatory tools to keep them in check #energysky: rmi.org/insight/a-st...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Call your Reps. Doesn’t matter what party. Your own Reps. Call, often.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“Declaring ‘I’m the king’ is not sufficient grounds for reversing” [NYC’s Congestion] program, said Robert L. Glicksman, a professor of environmental and administrative law at George Washington University Law School.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: I took a look at the power of regenerative braking in electric cars - and how it reduces particulate pollution from these vehicles! www.thereengineer.pro/p/how-evs-ef...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Once again, here's an @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast that contains all sorts of interesting discussions, but never once mentions the word media. It's like performance art at this point.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Distributed Energy Resources lecture 11 is up: Solar energy. The solar resource; the sun's position in the sky; sunlight incident on surfaces; solar photovoltaics. Next time: Wrap-up of the modeling and simulation unit. youtu.be/crF_HOwJKzY?...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 6 days ago • 609 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 955 comments

As climate scientists, seeing climate protests is a boost that makes us realize that people care about the knowledge that we generate. We should join protests now to show all those fighting the coup from inside the US government that they're doing what the people want and they have our support.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

what is best in life? to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and enjoy their eggs fried over-easy atop a slice of hearty sourdough avocado toast sprinkled with nutritional yeast and a dash of sea salt

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"Let's run government like a business"

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all climate spending in Biden's signature bill, had it been fully enacted, would have added up to about $35 billion per year over ten years. Meta blew the equivalent of 2 out of 10 IRA years on a failed version of Second Life

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Musk fired America’s disabled Veterans.

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But of course Trump didn't know anything about this Project 2025 thing during the campaign...

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Ireland's energy regulator today published a long-awaited policy governing the connection of new data centres. Astonishingly, the policy makes NO provision for regulating the GHG emissions arising from data centres - which all evidence points to is very substantial - and actually..

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

"Duke Energy Corp., one of the biggest US power providers, removed a mention of climate targets in its latest earnings release as the company builds more natural gas plants and reconsiders its coal plans" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

So ... what's waiting in the queues? Ah. emp.lbl.gov/queues

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Okay crowd, help me crowdsource the most meaningful protests/resistance going on against this administration and its wrecking balls. Thanks!

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

BPA is self-funding, so jobs cuts there don’t impact federal spending. Instead, cuts risk reliability and harm economic development across the northwest: www.newsdata.com/clearing_up/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I would simply abuse parliamentary procedure to holler this into a microphone or bullhorn repeatedly on the House and / or Senate floors until Republicans forcibly removed me, thus bringing more attention to the sentence I was hollering.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

A recent point of hope for me has been: US is responsible for only 11% of global GHG emissions, and the rest of world will keep decarbonizing. @billmckibben.bsky.social punctured that thought this week: Trump admin is using tariff threats to strong-arm countries around world commit to US LNG.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

still building gas - at 2.25 $/W! - in the year 2025. and some energy modelers will tell you that real-world capacity expansion decisions follow the tidy economic principles used in their certainty-equivalent linear programming models

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German electricity generation mix, 1990-2024. After the nuclear exit, are they using more coal? No, less. More natural gas then? No, less. Could they have used even less coal and gas if they hadn't shut down nuclear? Yes. ) Lignite = brown coal. Graph: www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/g...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

"the largest union-busting move since Senate Bill 5 in 2011" "strips away faculty’s right to strike" "will ban universities from endorsing or opposing 'controversial beliefs,' but the definition of 'controversial' is 'any belief or policy that is the subject of political controversy.'"

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energy modelers, raise your hand if your liquefied natural gas hot takes included "countries build out LNG imports from US to curry favor with Trump and oil/gas oligarchs" scenarios

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The Irish government is reportedly preparing to buy US LNG from fracked gas, by allowing the construction of a commercial import terminal, in exchange for economic concessions from Trump. We need to cut dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible - not lock it in for decades.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

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