South Australia has spent years patiently constructing one of the world's first big 100% clean grids. Its reward? Industries are *flocking* there to take advantage. Peak load is expected to double in coming years. Go green, make green.

A greener city has to be a fairer city. We’re bringing fast, affordable EV charging to working drivers and underserved communities—starting with a new hub in Flushing, Queens. Eight chargers. 80% charge in under 15 minutes. The first of 10 sites coming this year.

The Constitution gives Congress authority over federal land, so a President can't construct a new White House ballroom with private funds without Congress's ok, Judge Leon holds. Order to stop construction paused so DOJ can appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The Trump administration just voted to let Big Oil ignore every endangered species protection in the Gulf of Mexico. In a single meeting, Trump's corrupt cabinet gave oil companies a free pass to kill endangered whales & sea turtles so they can drill without limits. 🧵

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MARCH 2026 MOST ANOMALOUS MONTH IN US HISTORY PREVIOUS RECORD WAS MARCH 1910 8.5F above 1881 1910 baseline That considring EACH OWN previous 30yrs baseline for every month. So GW is already discounted here. March 2026 wins anyway.

March 29, 1974 – Negative Greenhouse Effect seminar in Uppsala, Sweden allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/28/m...

42 years ago yesterday He notes the problems that come with increasing CO2 & that they will begin to manifest in the early 2000s. Concludes there is still time to study the problem & legislation is premature

“But the competing House and Senate plans meant that the shutdown would continue because neither chamber is due back until mid-April to do any business, and both have passed plans that the other refuses to take up.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u... via @nytimes.com

When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated. Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.

DC #NoKings rally.

Is there something in a Roman Empire podcast about starting a self-defeating, dumb war?

Crossing the Memorial Bridge #NoKings #NoWar #FreeDC

Celebrating 50 years … ✨ More than 15 billion trips … ✨ And even more memories! Thank you to all who made our anniversary ride unforgettable. What Metro means to you means the world to us! You keep us moving!

Watch this: Well over 1500 heat records smashed over the last week across the US. Likely the most deviant US #heatwave in memory. (There are many more, these are just the records tracked by CoolWx)

At an energy conference on Monday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, "The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over.” Hours later, one of America’s largest oil refineries exploded.

Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project sent power to the grid for the first time yesterday: www.13newsnow.com/article/news... via Christopher Collette h/t @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

UPDATE: @waba.org says that the federal government has agreed not to start removing the 15th Street bike lane until at least March 30, in anticipation of a lawsuit that’s being filed to stop it.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

17. Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a center-left think tank, documented the steps taken to go from a “Biden Boom” to a “Trump Slump.” These are his takeaways (reproduced here verbatim). cepr.net/publications...

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Never seen anything like this. 200+ monthly records set today alone! Every pink dot means a city set its new all-time highest March temperature! That’s around 570 new monthly records in the last 4 days. Some set multiple times. By far the most rogue #heatwave the US has experienced in memory.

Squirrel spotted on the lawn this #Caturday morning

Astonishing: The hits keep coming! 112 today near Yuma, AZ (and 3 other sites) breaks US March heat record set yesterday. And breaks the former US March heat record by 4°F. #heatwave

"This will be so, so, so, so, so bad. We're talking about Covid-level demand loss, no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, but with no pandemic.” www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

New study finds the current heat wave in the West would be "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate pollution. We're on the verge of breaking an all-time March heat record for the US today/tmrw. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/w...

March in Western North America is deadly hot, completely above temperatures that would have been possible without climate change from burning oil, coal and gas. New record shatteringly rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

Anyway, my high-level takeaway is that better rulemaking and converter controls could have resolved the voltage issues and avoided the blackout. Inertia was basically irrelevant and fossil/nuclear generators made the voltage issues worse by failing to deliver promised voltage regulation.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

California is beating its own climate goals ahead of schedule: ✅ Two-thirds of the state grid powered by clean energy ✅ More than 2.5M electric vehicles ✅ 201K public chargers (more than gas nozzles) ✅ 17,000 MW of battery storage (2nd only to China) The cynics said it couldn't be done.

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

"'If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure,' he continued. 'It’s kind of a cause for celebration....'" www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

A downpayment of $200 billion and what we're getting for it is a more extreme Iranian successor regime, a global economic crisis featuring staggering energy prices and potential famine, and what looks like an opening for China and Russia to upend the world power structure. We didn't need to do this!

Crude (white) vs gold (blue) today. Everyone selling their bullion to buy barrels.

Entering a more dangerous phase of the war as Iran begins to directly target energy infrastructure Hormuz stoppage is like a kinked garden hose—you can unkink it and flow will resume Hitting infra is like taking a shotgun & blowing off the faucet to which that hose is attached

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Fortunately some of us are….

As we head into another wildfire season: "We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change." www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Beware the day after 3/14, or as Caesar said, "Circumference et tu pi r, Brute?"

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme: