The price of gas is OVER $4.00. Here's how state and local lawmakers can step up to cut costs: 🔌 Speed up electric vehicle sales 🚲 Promote safe biking and walking 🚌 Fight for affordable, reliable transportation 🏘️ Legalize multi-family homes and ADUs climatecabineteducation.org/transportati...

With gas over $4/gal nationally and locally much higher, there will be more demand for EVs, but there is so much more lawmakers can do to help. Start here with this set of tools created by @climatecabineteducation.org

MI and IL both running major housing packages that will lower bills, shorten commutes and cut pollution. If you are not watching the Midwest, you are missing all the action.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in MI are working to tackle the housing crisis. By eliminating unnecessary red tape and embracing duplexes and additional housing diversity solutions, newly introduced Michigan legislation could become a model for the rest of the country if passed.

As many as we do the work to win.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES (laudatory)

🚨@climatecabinet.org is hiring a Data Engineer! Join us to accelerate political power for climate action in cities & states across the US - at scale. job-boards.greenhouse.io/climatecabin...

They voted to gut the state’s climate law, and are on track to lose their election tonight.

Congratulations to @pierce4nchouse.bsky.social and @rodneysadler.com on their victories in tonight’s North Carolina primaries! Both candidates are committed climate champions who are ready to build the clean energy economy, lower bills, and reduce pollution⚡️

Housing👏policy👏is👏climate👏policy!

The rent is too damn high. The commute is too damn long. Here's how to fix it.

I continue to love Climate Cabinet’s approach to reimagining the world as it will be with universal consideration of climate in the policies that underpin people’s daily lives.

being able to convey complex ideas/issues in easily understandable ways is actually a fucking goated skill

Housing & transit policy can fill the gap where CA's clean cars waiver used to lead. Even better: we can do so by lowering costs for Americans. Check out how...

Tailpipe pollution from cars is the largest source of emissions in the United States – and housing policies that reduce car dependence can go a long way towards addressing it. For example, state and local govt.'s can adopt:

Some 🔥🔥🔥 from @spears.bsky.social on the endangerment finding arson: "Climate leadership isn’t going to come from the demolished halls of the East Wing in Washington, D.C. It is going to come from local leaders who are committed to lowering their constituents’ bills."

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal. I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“That isn’t going to come from the demolished halls of the East Wing in Washington, D.C. It is going to come from local leaders who are committed to lowering their constituents’ bills. From Virginia to Texas, the clean energy economy is still moving full steam ahead.”

Some thoughts from Climate Cabinet Action Executive Director @spears.bsky.social on today's announcement that the Trump administration will attempt to unilaterally repeal the endangerment finding:

With the federal government poised to (illegally) kill off the EPA's climate authority, what has been an open secret is now the only game in town: If you want to make progress on climate, you need to focus on the States. This is our dna at @climatecabinet.org. Here's the playbook:

Not for nothing, these are the things that white supremely., capitalism, and the venture-capitalist industrial complex want to take from us. Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Bad Bunny’s show is exactly why I don’t agree with people who say climate is no longer at the forefront. Climate is intrinsically tied to issues of justice. If you can’t see that, it says more about how narrow you view climate and less about what is happening. Literal power lines. I mean, come on!

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

With an unstable economy and rising energy prices, voters are frustrated and looking for leaders who will lower costs, protect consumers, and deliver real solutions. We're working to elect those state and local leaders in 2026.

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The “Energy Affordability” Wave Election Is Coming. - @forbes.com @spears.bsky.social @climatecabinet.org www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

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*the sum. or theism. whatever. I'm not your spiritual advisor.

I did this long thread shouting out the great work this year by @michealpodgers.bsky.social @nickarnoldaz.bsky.social @cbraun.bsky.social @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social @denisce.bsky.social and many others not on here. They did so much cool stuff the thread is unwieldy. Here is a table of contents.

🤖 @clicabedu.bsky.social tech team doesn't stop. ☃️ (Slack cred to resident musician and product manager Matt who is not on bsky, Grace for the coding, and @cbraun.bsky.social for more coding)

Hey, thanks @stanfordenergy.bsky.social! You could say some good ideas took root back in the halls of Y2E2 and the Haas Center...

Queuing up my holiday reading!

Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov !

(1) 🔌💡 #Greensky #climatesky #academicsky Hey climate peeps! I have big news. My wife, Dr. Lisa Kaul, is running for NY State Senate, driven by the urgency of climate action & climate justice. Let me tell you about her. 🧵

#winning 🏆

There is really only one 2025 Climate-Insurance Policy Year in Review that you need to read, and you bet your ass @clicabedu.bsky.social has got it from the inimitable @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social right flippin here. Read it or live with incurable FOMO. climatecabineteducation.org/wp-content/u...

A highlight of 2025 has been @clicabedu.bsky.social's partnership with @pjmfdn.bsky.social to accelerate the use of data & technology for climate policy solutions. Check out what our data engineers & tech team have been up to. Shoutout to @cbraun.bsky.social @spears.bsky.social

Say, that *is* a fun fact! Here's the receipts from @climatecabinet.org's incredible data team.

Let's goooooo

Every day, I am motivated to go to work at @climatecabinet.org because in state and local politics, true climate solutions are achievable. And we're getting it done. Thanks @whitneybauck.bsky.social @theguardian.com for this great spotlight on the critical importance of local climate leadership.

LOOK AT THIS TOOL DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS TOOL WHEN I WAS POLICY DIRECTOR AT A STATE ENERGY AGENCY LOOK AT IT YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT, NEW PROBLEMS THAN I DID! NO MORE OLD PROBLEMS! ONLY INFORMATION!

You can use this new tool to answer questions like: “What kinds of Climate Risk & Adaptation bills were intro'ed in AZ last year?” “Which bills in MI's most recent session focused on Building Electrification?” “Did IL pass any ESG laws in 2025?”

HEY COOL: IT'S THE @clicabedu.bsky.social ✨CLIMATE BILL TAG EXPLORER✨ climatecabineteducation.org/climate-bill...