These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures. https://therevelator.org/environmental-commentaries-2025/

Quick, someone remind me who else figured out how to quickly house tens of thousands of people in concentrated facilities in the name of efficiency www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What an honor!

12 Environmental Commentaries That Defined Our Year in 2025 -- by @jyunker.bsky.social @oceanhoptimism.org @authorhenderson.bsky.social @federicoholm.bsky.social & many others: therevelator.org/environmenta...

It should be no surprise that environmental NGOs are under specific, intensive, & sustained attack by a de facto alliance of right-wing (think Project 2025) & centrist forces (think Abundance).

David Behringer told us, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA". A type of PFAS, classed by German regulators as 'reprotoxic' - potentially damaging to fertility + child development - TFA is produced when F-gases used in refrigeration, or PFAS in pesticides begin to degrade. 🧵 1/4

🚨Omnibus I Political agreement Early this morning, EU institutions reached a political agreement that marks a turning point: 👉 The first rollback of an adopted due diligence law in history 👉 The first major file pushed through via an EPP–far right alliance www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...

It's here the seeds of "Abundance" were planted to cultivate an alliance btw extractive capital, fossil fuels, & centrists to attack the progressive left & take a sledgehammer to bedrock environmental laws they perceived as a threat to their dominance & the extractive systems they depend on.

Genuine question: What happens if Dems somehow have the coherence and spine to extract a "force Trump not to derail renewables" concession from Repubs on "permitting reform," then Trump's handlers just... ignore it? Who forces their hand? The courts, appeals courts, and eventually Supremes. . . . ?

Temu Vecna never saw a killing of brown people he couldn’t endorse

Must read article on how"the EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists" #deregulation #corporatecapture www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

Pundit supporters of "permitting reform" sweep aside (& do not understand) ecology & community. In their ignorance, they seek to confine the decision-making space to energy infrastructure. This invariably leads to doomed conflict btw/energy infrastructure + ecological & community systems.

Absolutely perfect to see Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese at the G20 together: both fossil fuel expansionists cosplaying as brave climate heroes www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39D...

To emphasize: The SPEED Act’s relevance is not confined to energy, to the fight btw/fossil fuels & renewables. Its implications are expansive, covering all federal action that may harm the environment. Whole ecological systems at risk under the false notion that building fast is building well.

End of @enlit-europe.bsky.social. I'm amazed at the the creativity of folks trying to address grid flexibility, consumer empowerment, optimization, and streamlining processes. Still, there was a lot less interest in other dimensions of the energy transition #Enlit

Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules. Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Center research scientist Fede Holm is attending this year's #EnlitEurope. We look forward to his insights and learning more about how Europe is decarbonizing energy!

sous prétexte de “simplification”, l'UE envisage de laisser passer l'usage de pesticides nocifs. C’est anti-environnement et anti-science.

Some interesting insights after the first morning at @enlit-europe.bsky.social. The first relates to solar power's "winning formula". In terms of scalability, flexibility, co-location with other technologies, and price, solar is unbeatable. Co-location of solar and storage is a no-brainer.

“The Congo basin may be the world’s most important rainforest – why is it the least researched?” Geez, I don’t know… take a wild fucking guess?? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/2🧵 🌎 Who really holds the power at COP30? 🚨 More than 1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry attended #COP30 in Belém, outnumbering almost all national delegations. 👉 Read more: bit.ly/4rdvP9x

Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Moderates: (1) Seek to turn the U.S. into an AI-centered petrostate; by (2) Exploiting the "affordability" zeitgeist; as (3) A pretext to embrace the fossil fuel industry's "all of the above" energy rhetoric & "technology neutral permitting reform."

All the folks who contend we do not need to directly challenge the entrenched power of the fossil fuel industry—and that we can accommodate their policy priorities (e.g., federal “permitting reform”)—are either lying or deluding themselves that this is an effective climate strategy. Root. Them. Out.

The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

In less than a week, I'll be headed to Bilbao for @enlit-europe.bsky.social as part of the Future Energy Workforce programme. If you or anyone you know that’s attending is working at the intersection of energy democracy, community development and just transitions, or land use, I'd love to meet!

Disastrous votes in European Parliament this morning including on #Omnibus1 changes to #DueDiligence rules: ⚠️Fewer companies reporting ⚠️Scrapping of mandatory climate transition plans This is just days after 100+ legal experts said Omnibus 1 could be illegal papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We’re on track for 2.5°C of global warming by 2100. The worst impacts are already falling on communities that contributed the least to the crisis. To achieve energy justice, we need alternatives to investor-owned utilities. 📘 Read our new brief. → bit.ly/Alternatives...

The critical thing is that "gross emissions" go down rapidly, to near zero in 2050 or so, for ~1.5°C. This is how you solve the climate problem. That green slither of carbon dioxide removal is a nice to have, not a do-or-die requirement. Focus on reducing emissions. 6/

Once again, an opposition party instigated a shutdown but failed to win a big-time White House concession. Why did the "Invertebrate Eight" sacrifice leverage for a deal that forfeited their main demands? –– @billscher.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/d...

Tonight Democrats proved that old quip. If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like. We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.

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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Respectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut up [via @slate.com]

To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

As many of you may know, a fossil fuel funded NGO is currently suing the University of Michigan to obtain my personal communications with environmental groups. I recently went on the @climateone.org podcast to talk about my work and the toll the lawsuit has taken: www.climateone.org/audio/when-c...

Great article on what's driving retail electricity price changes: including the impact of data centers, inflation, state-by-state differences (partly driven by physical factors -like wildfire risk, but also market structures), and the role of renewables www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US Gov't is shut down but @noaa.gov still toiling away at destroying decades of multilateral cooperation and ocean ecosystems in one fell swoop. Folks, this is really, *really* bad.

"According to the Center for Progressive Reform, 48% of the policy objectives have been enacted across multiple federal agencies. Each move is deliberate, eroding rights that generations fought to secure and tightening the grip of a government bent on control." bit.ly/47KVLS1 @washingtoninformer.com

It’s still unclear to me what the cutoff in deaths is that allows to still call it a “ceasefire” but what do I know. Maybe when only one side keeps killing, 50% of the parties involved are holding the agreement, so *on average* and rounding up, it’s a ceasefire www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Today, @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors.

Check out my latest for @lpeblog.bsky.social: I trace the rise of a new form of politicized regulatory relief emanating from the White House, how it departs from centralized regulatory review at OIRA, and what it means for the political economy of the modern presidency lpeproject.org/blog/the-ris...

🚨 BREAKING: courts find French 🇫🇷 oil & gas major TotalEnergies guilty of greenwashing, misleading customers in its advertising ❎ The case was brought by @amisdelaterre.org @greenpeace.fr @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social More info 👇 www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

But of course when done by blond people, it doesnt count as deforestation. (*sarcasm alert)

Check out my latest: My review Klein's and Thompson's book 'Abundance.' It occurred to me that a lot of the criticisms that Kysar raises about cost-benefit analysis applies here, too. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sometimes, as a public service, I read a book so you don't have to... ... this is one of those times www.ft.com/content/7ad4...