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Rhode Islanders have shown they believe in solar. Policymakers need to step up to address gaps. Mircea Gherghina, @climatesollab.bsky.social postdoc, tells Rhode Island Current RI should focus on local solar, strong incentives, and stable policy to boost renewable adoption.

Congratulations to @kathrynchelminski! 🎉 Excited to see your work making an impact in the climate conversation. Let’s keep pushing for positive change together! 🌍📚

This book examines how the clean energy regime complex can be effective in fostering #energytransitions at the domestic level through comparative cases of #geothermal dev in #Indonesia and the #Philippines. Special thanks to the @climatesollab.bsky.social where I completed my book.

Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

COMMENTARY: Why investing heavily in rooftop and community solar will help ensure Rhode Island, and New England more broadly, stay on track. Via @climatesollab.bsky.social postdoctoral researcher Mircea Gherghina rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/09/29/r...

More than one in four US homes—amounting to $12.7 trillion in real estate—faces at least one type of “severe or extreme climate risk,” like floods, hurricanes, and wildfires - new report by Realtor fortune.com/2025/09/03/h...

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

It was an honor to visit @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social to share my new book #CorporationsAtClimateCrossroads today! Thank you @jenniferhadden.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social at @climatesollab.bsky.social for hosting me. I very much enjoyed engaging with the Brown Watson School community!

See my commentary @washingtonpost.com in re risk perception and human mobility #SaltLakeCity www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Electricity bills rising 2x faster than inflation. We have cheap renewables but this administration is choosing expensive fossil fuels. This is a policy choice. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

✍️ New on @brookings.edu Brown Center Chalkboard: Why climate change is an urgent education policy issue. We cover: * How climate change disrupts schools * What schools can do to advance change + a lookup tool for climate risks in your district www.brookings.edu/articles/cli...

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations. Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics. Check out our website and join the effort today.

Americans: it takes just a minute to submit a comment to the EPA asking them to preserve the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which finds carbon dioxide emissions to be dangerous to public health/welfare..it underpins all subsequent federal regulation of CO2 emissions www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

As this chart shows, the Med is once again in record territory. Look at the colored lines - showing the last few years - these extreme heatwaves are now becoming a semi-permanent feature of summer. Over the past 2 decades, the Med in summer is warming at a huge rate of .7C per decade (1.2F).

I had a dream that my energy & climate hero @volts.wtf, who absolutely fucking hates talking about food & climate, would do an episode about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. He did it! It was so fun and I am so grateful. www.volts.wtf/p/reducing-t...

We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!

@jeffcolgan.bsky.social and I have spent some time thinking about different approaches to teaching the politics of climate change. We advocate an approach that emphasizes the different 'theories of change' behind decarbonization.

We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!

Is the climate strategy behind the IRA dead after the GOP's massive cuts to its clean energy subsidies? In my new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, I argue: No! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Thrilled to share my article examining policy adaptation in DG #interconnection regimes in MA and NY is out in ERSS! shorturl.at/L7Xl1 I had the great opportunity to conduct this research during my postdoc at @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. 🔌💡#energysky

Delays in connecting to the electrical grid are a huge drag on the clean energy transition to solar and wind (aka interconnection queues). Congrats to CSL Fellow @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social on publishing her important new study on dealing with this challenge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lawmakers pass game-changing bill to make it easier for homeowners to make popular upgrade: 'Bringing it into the 21st century makes sense' — @climatesollab.bsky.social report cited by The Cool Down found permitting adds $3,800–$4,500 to rooftop solar costs in NJ.

I have a new TEDx talk on why climate change is a national security risk. It might provide some helpful points for public audiences. It builds upon my 20 years of scholarship and policy work in this space. #EnergySky www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ne...

NEW from me in a Journal of International Economic Law symposium: Towards a post-Trump order for the climate crisis. I lay out why, despite setbacks, industrial policy is still the way to address climate change - and how macro and distributional policy can help. 🧵 academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...

My key takeaways from the EFTA Court advisory opinion on the requirements for assessing petroleum extraction projects under the EU's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive and the implications of failing to adhere to those requirements. eftacourt.int/wp-content/u...

What does the GOP Megabill passed by the House this morning mean for the US energy transition, energy prices, emissions and the economy? REPEAT Project's new analysis has you covered. Read the new report or listen to our recent SHIFT KEY episode diving into the details. 🔗 ⤵️ 🔌💡

New State of the voluntary carbon market report is out. - Huge market contraction -- not surprising given that Article 6 is not yet in full swing. - VCM will likely grow as Paris markets expand, bc this unregulated market needs some governmental legitimacy (and demand) to make it work. 🧵

Yes! A peer-reviewed comic on wildfires and climate politics! 🔥A fun project on a deadly serious topic, grounded in science and field experience. Featuring Miss Pigy, André the Giant, Harold Lasswell, and my co-author Jamie Michaels ! In open access here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

The Evolving Landscape of US Green Banks — A new @climatesollab.bsky.social white paper highlights the rapid rise of green banks in the U.S. over the past decade as a vital tool for financing the green energy transition.

My NSF grant on Clean Energy and Society got terminated today. It helped support the @climatesollab.bsky.social. We will continue our work as best we can.

Great to see this explainer about US green banks come out @climatesollab.bsky.social , the latest in a series of White Papers with lots of useful (and teachable) updates on the #climate politics landscape Greensky 🌎

window glass is like 0.04% of my house, but it would be a hell of a lot colder if I didn’t have any releasing this one into the blockosphere

Check out CSL's latest white paper explaining the evolving landscape of green banks in the US climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

Check out our new white paper co-authored by CSL affiliate @jenniferhadden.bsky.social climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

Check out our new white paper co-authored by CSL affiliate @jenniferhadden.bsky.social climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

NEW DATA: China's wind+solar overtakes thermal capacity🙌 39GW of solar added in Jan-Feb - a million solar panels per day🤯+ 9GW of wind Thermal generation still dwarfs wind+solar, but new wind+solar (+nuclear+hydro) is broadly meeting elec demand growth, halting further rises

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Great new work by CSL affiliate @gard-murray.bsky.social on reducing barriers to solar energy deployment in USA @climatesollab.bsky.social

4/ @climatesollab.bsky.social from @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & co. Tons of news, resources, research overviews. (And a syllabus bank for teachers building courses) climate.watson.brown.edu

Dramatic warning about climate change from that lefty eco-radical group ... Allianz Insurance??? @climatesollab.bsky.social @maxbradley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The coming great land reshuffle" by @mikealbertus.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com is a perceptive, dark vision about asset revaluation for land battles to come under climate change 🌎 @climatesollab.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social on.ft.com/4ggcrle

Interesting new article on climate compensation. Findings contrast sharply with Bolet et al. 2024, who argue compensation for coal closure can work politically. Important uncertainty for climate politics 🌎🔌 @climatesollab.bsky.social

Solar permitting in Colorado is still inefficient — A recent Solar Builder article cites a report from researchers at @climatesollab.bsky.social analyzing the cost of permitting red tape for residential solar systems in Colorado.

A new report from Grid Strategies and @robgramlichdc.bsky.social, commissioned by United, finds that if PJM had connected just 15% more energy projects, consumers could have saved $7B. This isn’t just a PJM problem—it’s a national issue. Read the report: blog.advancedenergyunited.org/articles/fau...

3 lessons here: 1/ fossil asset owners will keep these assets as long as gov'ts will let them. 2/ oil and gas net zero pledges are an elaborate distraction -- both for ESG optimists and consumers 3/ liberals take note: the market won't supply decarbonization. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Last week, I attended an excellent workshop at @lancasteruni.bsky.social hosted by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on "Higher Education's Role in the #Climate Crisis: Bridging Research Culture and Action". Here's a thread on some papers that came up in our discussion🧵

Looking forward to hosting Tom Steyer this Friday in conversation with CSL acting director Mark Blyth, livestreamed & in person at @watsoninstitute.bsky.social events.brown.edu/rhodes-cente... @brown-ibes.bsky.social

What are public perceptions on climate change and carbon-dioxide removal around the world? The survey dataset by @chadmbaum.bsky.social @liviafritz.bsky.social et al is now available via the #GENIE CDR Knowledge Hub... 📝 cdr.apps.ece.iiasa.ac.at/story/2025_0...