You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

This is why electrification means more energy security: In 2024, ~81% of EU electricity came from locally sourced fuels (57% excluding nuclear). Just 19% relied on imported fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are mostly imported. Source @ember-energy.org

Batteries are the fossil fuel killer. Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years. But it did.

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

When putting solar panels on your roof or land saves your business money, you put up the solar panels. USA addition. "Commercial projects sized between 2 MW and 20 MW are positioned for growth as corporate offtakers seek to hedge against volatile retail power markets"

“This is not the time for resignation; it’s a time of heightened urgency” Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

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Trump is trying to kill clean energy. The market has other plans. #Climate

Estudiantes de Cornell lanzan la primera vela solar retroreflectiva y autónoma del mundo, con menos de 100 gramos de peso. ecoinventos.com/estudiantes-...

Firmed solar power with battery backup in India is now at $0.035/kWh. There are no thermal sources that can touch that price. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/12/i...

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....Did anyone actually listen to Woods' statement?? Woods specifies it's "uninvestable" *today*, lays out a series of changes that would be needed to make investable, and then says "We're confident that with this administration and President Trump....those changes can be put in place

Highly important: we reach now a climate state where unprecedented productivity losses will happen in the food baskets of the world... Simultaneously...

How Carbon Border Adjustments Might Drive Global Climate Policy Momentum: Elkerbout, Milan; Nehrkorn, Katarina; Wolfram, Catherine; Clausing, Kimberly

Developing nations achieve massive #solar growth. www.globalcapital.com/globalmarket...

Grid-scale energy #storage, particularly mega-batteries, is essential for the global clean energy transition by balancing the variable nature of #RenewableEnergy sources like #solar and #wind. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Microgrids provide flexible, decentralized power that operate independently from national grids. #climate oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

We are proud to congratulate Soumya Krishnamurthi, a senior leader in our IT Department, who was recently honored with the Women in Technology Impact Award from the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania!

China has exported $120 billion in green technology for the year-to-date. The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, has only sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad.

The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat. Electrification+renewables are far more efficient. medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91. Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Join us for a timely discussion on the impact of the latest tariffs on U.S.-Brazil Bilateral Trade next Monday. RSVP Link: shorturl.fm/zvuwO

Researchers at Northeastern and Yale universities ranked states based on risks from extreme heat, flooding, poor air quality, natural hazard risks to health care facilities and greenhouse gas emissions by the health care sector. From @stateline.org

The organization that manages the electric grid for Pennsylvania and 12 other states has moved too slowly in response to skyrocketing energy demand and consumers are paying for it, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday. From @petehallpa.bsky.social

Utilities are backing legislation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that would allow them to own power plants. Consumer advocates expect to see a similar proposal in Maryland in 2026. From @insideclimatenews.org

🔴 🔥 ♨️ ⚠️ Several days after their start, the large #wildfires affecting Portugal and Spain are still active, increasing their size and producing a massive quantity of smoke.⬇️meteosat-12📸 before sunset on Aug.20 showing most of the iberian peninsula covered by smoke,and engulfing Baleares

The attorneys general and governors of 19 states, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, are suing federal energy officials over a new policy meant to cut funding for staff who work on sustainable energy and energy efficiency projects across the country. From @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...

"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments." seems problematic.

My wonderful mentor doing her thing. She is the reason I am where I am. A truly incredible leader and human being!! Go @sheilarose.bsky.social, you rock and we are all so lucky to learn from you, your work and ideas 💡⚖️

Wait. It gets better.

It really is remarkable that we have an opportunity to avert climate disaster and it is also the smart economic choice. That hasn't always been the case. Now it is. Lower energy costs, lower health costs and huge averted climate damages. And yet still, we let the greedheads win.

On @kqedforum.bsky.social, @michaelwara.bsky.social and I talked about electricity affordability, climate resilience, and how the one big beautiful bill raises taxes on clean electricity. Listen: www.kqed.org/forum/201010... 🔌💡

The Big Beautiful Bill repeals most regulations dealing with climate change including subsidies for the expansion of the cheapest energy sources (wind & solar). This will increase electicity costs for families. (NB: oil & gas receive subsidies too). Below is the price of not addressing the issue.

"The nation’s reliability watchdog recently reported that the risk of a summer grid emergency in Texas dropped from 15% in 2024 to 3% in 2025 — and pointed to new battery energy storage as the sole reason." Batteries prevent blackouts that were caused by fossil fuel plant failures.

Is decarbonization dead? @janeaflegal.bsky.social & I join Ezra Klein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes.com or wherever you get your podcasts. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy of THE MISSION. Reviews have been astonishing. If you haven't yet, please do! The link will send you to booksellers who aren't named Bezos. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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This Tom Friedman Op-Ed is spot on and a good companion to the NYT China clean energy piece. He makes the point that the U.S. just made it harder and dirtier to power the AI revolution in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

New at Can We Still Govern: I talk with Jen Pahlka about what abundance means, how to rebuild state capacity, what DOGE got wrong and the future of civic tech open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

NYT: “Factories having trouble filling 400,000 jobs… The hiring challenges faced by 🇺🇸 factories are multifaceted. Trump’s crackdown on immigration may eliminate workers who could have filled those jobs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...

Looking forward to hosting Seattle University’s third annual Supreme Court Rapid Response Webinar w/ @evanbernick.bsky.social, @earlymodjustice.bsky.social, @jerchin.bsky.social, @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, @portiapedro.bsky.social, @robertltsai.bsky.social, and other stars!

open.substack.com/pub/louispis... “While the rest of us are told to compost, buy reusable straws, and take fewer showers during droughts, the world’s richest man floats into Cannes on a floating diesel inferno and gets a seat at the climate table via his fiancée’s perfectly bronzed décolleté.”

open.substack.com/pub/abcibraz... Curious to hear what people think about ballooning attendance at COPs and various proposal to reform the process. I have links to some in my short note 👇🏼

UPDATE: The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

Pennsylvania is the fourth-largest recipient of aid under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), behind California, Texas and Michigan. Cuts would have an outsized impact on the commonwealth, where 38,000 seniors receive monthly food packages, Hunger-Free Pennsylvania said.