NEW STUDY: More than 14% of people in the contiguous United States reside within a mile of at least one piece of #FossilFuel infrastructure. Authors: @jjbuonocore.bsky.social & @marydwillis.bsky.social. @bostonu.bsky.social

@marydwillis.bsky.social and I published a paper published today in Environmental Research Letters! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... We found that about 46.6 million people in the US, or about 14.1% of the US population, live within a mile of a piece of energy infrastructure. Why do we care? 🛟 |💡🔌

It is almost like that!!

NEW STUDY: More than 14% of people in the contiguous United States reside within a mile of at least one piece of #FossilFuel infrastructure. Authors: @jjbuonocore.bsky.social & @marydwillis.bsky.social. @bostonu.bsky.social Story: www.bu.edu/igs/2025/11/...#FossilFuel

This new @amnesty.org study is damning. A quarter of the world’s population lives within a 3 mile radius if a fossil fuel project. That’s 2b people. We must end this era of greed and harm. www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/cl...

Our new paper! Building electrification can be good for health too – the more renewables on the grid, the better it is. 🛟 | #energysky doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... ... with @joeallenjoe.bsky.social and other lovely people who aren't on here

NREL is a national treasure 💡🔌 maps.nrel.gov/slope/data-v...

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

With 1 of 5ish deaths worldwide due to air pollution, largely from fossil fuels, it seems like it'd benefit present day well-being of a few people if a wee bit of money was left in the "Energy Transition" bucket... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Is the EIA US Energy Atlas no longer publicly available? www.eia.gov/maps/ #energysky

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This seems pretty relevant for #climatesky folks... theconversation.com/winning-with...

Climate science is facing significant opposition in the US. Today we are launching the collaborative Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists Megastudy 📈 Find out more and join our efforts 👇🧵

Proud to be part of the Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health that just put together a report summarizing the evidence of health harms of climate change to date. Report is here: zenodo.org/records/1728... 🛟 #climatesky

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I would like to rebrand climate change as "fossil fuels taking away your temperature freedom" #greensky, 🔌💡 | 🛟 #climatesky How do I do this? Do I submit a formal application somewhere?

Another expert review of the science behind the endangerment finding, this time from health professionals. they conclude that CO2 emissions "pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being." drive.google.com/fil...

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

I can confirm the Nextgen Acelas are really nice.

The Science of Delay The lesson of PFAS is the same lesson we should have learned from lead, asbestos, and air pollution: if we wait until the evidence is definitive, we’ve waited too long.

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Costa also issuing the same warning

This is fucking crazy! The offshore wind farm is almost finished!

Affordability is an issue everywhere, so everywhere and anyone can benefit from improved bicycle infrastructure. #bikes

Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it. I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change. This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.

Love this. Honestly, the env. ethics, env. philosophy, and globalization and environmental policy classes I took in college did as much to influence me as a scientist as my science classes did. theconversation.com/studying-phi...

Interesting new paper from @energymorgan.bsky.social et al. "Households that dont electrify may bear a 46% increase in gas bills on average over the next 15 years (relative to current costs). Targeted electrification may help to alleviate energy burdens." #enegrySky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prediction: as electricity costs (continue to) rise in coming years, Trump & the right will falsely blame clean energy & the quiescent US political press will dutifully amplify that message. A coherent, competent communications apparatus would see that coming & do something to forestall it ...

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

A very good ad, and some very good points!!

Not at all a coincidence that this type of clean-energy comms - which presents a positive case in forceful terms rather than trying to dance around the issue - is coming almost exclusively from non-US firms. The comparison tells us a lot about why the IRA failed. More below: 1/9

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Why did I let Outlook update? The ML is clearly trained off its own emails so it predicts to fill in with its own default signature. I am going to regret this...

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

I listened to the most recent Ezra Klein where he interviewed @jessedjenkins.com and @janeaflegal.bsky.social on decarbonization and there was one very revealing bit where Ezra started to ask if ChatGPT could do the grid impact studies for the interconnection queue podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New article our paper! www.bu.edu/sph/news/art... @busph.bsky.social @joeallenjoe.bsky.social and many others not on here. tl;dr, if you want to improve health and the climate, build renewables in places with coal!

Cleaning up aerosol pollution is critical for public health. But reducing aerosols is also unmasking warming from greenhouse gases - researchers here find this influence is strongest in populated places. 🧪

Congratulations to Bre on this fellowship! It's a very cool project!!

In today's Grad Fellow Friday spotlight, Breanna van Loenen zooms in 🔎 on harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) created during #FossilFuel production. With satellite data, she can better monitor these gases across the #US: www.bu.edu/igs/profile/...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

I would really appreciate it if the #abundance -erati could work on the problem of why US cities can’t have the same abundance and diversity of high quality restaurants as what is available in…. Waterloo, Ontario

haha, "whoops!"

I think it’s really important, when considering what we’re investing in for the future of decarbonization, to consider that techs depending on cooling water might simply be seasonally unviable under future climate conditions

A science fiction trope in real life! @realmsunknown.bsky.social

New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...

They're* calling it the blackout bill. With new demands from AI, hotter temperatures, and the return of U.S. manufacturing, pulling back on clean energy deployment puts our electricity system at risk. *ok it's just me but still

Bad AI, bad. Go to your room.