At events like CERAWeek, industry leaders often talk about how much cleaner and safer production of oil and gas is here in the U.S. Satellite data tells a more complicated story. Methane emissions in Texas can be big and "stubborn." stopmethane.substack.com/p/texas-is-h...

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

Here's the glitch-free @streetsforall.org and Housing Action Coalition mayoral debate featuring Adam Miller, @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social, and @raeforla.com talking housing, transportation, and infrastructure (Karen Bass didn't attend)

Happy birthday to me-thane. Let's mark the milestone by identifying some of the most extreme and stubborn super-polluting plumes, shall we? legal-planet.org/2026/03/24/w...

Yes. But also bombing a foreign country and threatening to strike its power plants while also de-sanctioning its oil so it can sell more and get a better price at market.

What a time to be alive

Check out this helpful guide from @climatevisuals.bsky.social: www.climatevisuals.org/extremeheatv... And this, from @carbonbrief.org, helps explain why accurate climate visuals matter: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

This is a master class in how NOT to select a photo for a news story about climate change-fueled extreme heat. Clickbait isn't going to win you actual readers or subscribers via social. (No shade to the photog, it's an editorial call.) @coveringclimatenow.org has good tips on choosing heat visuals.

Since 2001, the fraction of sunlight reflected by Earth decreased from 29.3% to 28.6%. That change – an added 0.7% of incoming sunlight being absorbed by climate system instead of reflected – is huge. It adds about as much to Earth’s energy imbalance as all the CO2 human activities have ever emitted

Growing the grid without breaking the bank is Panel One of our April 3 symposium "Can Abundance Be Sustainable?" featuring fab panelists Abre' Conner, Tina Andolina, William Boyd, and esteemed moderator @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social of @heatmap.news RSVP to join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Groceries, such an old-fashioned word

My commute also does not pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

It's a BFD that BYD is selling EVs in Mexico and now Canada. Did you know that China's BYD makes a wide range of electric buses and big-rig trucks in the U.S. and that their factory is right here in LA? My report from a factory tour. legal-planet.org/2026/03/18/a...

Your tax dollars at work: the Trump Administration wants to pay Total $1 billion NOT to build wind farms.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating - Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action ‘maddening’, say analysts #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wow, Dodgers have a deal with fashion giant Uniqlo to become Dodger Stadium’s official field presenting partner, sources tell @katiejwoo.bsky.social. That means a newly constructed sign in center field. BUT will it affect the 76 gas signage or will the team keep shilling for Big Oil?!

Driving LA freeways during the Oscars rivals the feeling of driving LA freeways on Christmas Day and Coachella.

Just bought tickets for an evening showing of "Hoppers" to take my 10-year-old. Gotta love a movie recommendation from @sammyroth.bsky.social via his climate culture newsletter. His doing a pledge drive this week. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/pixar-hopp...

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

It's early March but winter in the west is over and we're about to see an “unprecedented” heat wave. “We are in a fairly serious situation," @weatherwest.bsky.social said in his office hours this week. So, no, I'm not loving the idea of a “super El Niño.” legal-planet.org/2026/03/11/u...

An amazing stat: Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war. It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I'll have a livestream to discuss early indications on Tuesday (Mar 10 at 3pm PT) and then likely also a new Weather West post later this week. Stay tuned...

The BLM is about to hand over nearly 400,000 acres across the Central Coast and Southern California to oil drilling and fracking—near parks, schools, and communities. 📣 Submit a public comment before March 13. 👉 forestwatch.org/stop-oil

Come hang out at UCLA for the day on 4/3 and talk about the intersection of affordability and environmental protections. The @uclalawemmett.bsky.social symposium is always super thought-provoking and fun. (If enviro law and policy is your kind of fun.) law.ucla.edu/academics/ce...

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

There's some good news on the climate beat this week thanks to recent hires, expansions, and investments from HEATED to the LA Times to POLITICO and Drilled. legal-planet.org/2026/03/04/w...

A map of electricity bill pain in the Trump era: insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...

I wrote about the one actually great thing that happened this week

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

"It’s clear that EPA means to tilt the scales in favor of polluting school buses, and kill any interest in the Clean School Bus program by unexpectedly halting and starting funding for school districts." - @lasmogguy.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2026/02/26/p...

Trump’s EPA announced recently that it wants to funnel federal funding away from electric school buses and toward dirtier options like those fueled by fossil gas. But they've been messing with school districts for more than a year now. legal-planet.org/2026/02/26/p...

"Our City's financial state is the culmination of decades of unsustainable budgeting, seen and felt by Angelenos across the City in our crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating services” is how the city controller opened his recent annual report. Sure seems like some want to shoot the messenger…

General consensus is that the endangerment finding rescission strengthens state law claims and authorities. But there is one way in which the rescission could undermine, not strengthen, Boulder’s arguments. Our Cara Horowitz explains @legal-planet.org legal-planet.org/2026/02/25/t...

The federal government claiming state preemption after killing the endangerment finding “feels like a bad ex-boyfriend who says, I don’t want to date you anymore, but you can’t date those other people either,” Georgetown Prof. Vicki Arroyo told @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/climate/enda...

The justices had turned away similar industry appeals in recent years but will hear this Big Oil climate liability case next fall.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Tuesday’s State of the Union is gonna be a little awkward.

Now do California.

After the big @hayleysmith.bsky.social LAT investigation into the use of AI to generate public comments aimed at blocking SoCal air rules, advocates are demanding an investigation and holding a press conference to discuss this threat to civic engagement.

Trump’s EPA just rolled back critical, lifesaving Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, allowing dirty coal plants to release more mercury, arsenic, and other dangerous pollutants into our air.

The tariffs at issue in the Supreme Court case — half the total tariff bill — half of about $30 billion every month. “Refunds are messy but doable.”

By 6-3 decision, tariffs struck down.

New in data center democracy concerns: Police in Claremore, Okla. arrested a community activist named for "trespassing" during a public meeting after officers said he exceeded his allotted time to speak (by seconds mind you). The project is the planning phase. www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklaho...

📣 Submissions are now OPEN for the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! 🔔

California co-led a lawsuit filed today by a coalition of 13 states "challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful decision to terminate funding for congressionally mandated energy and infrastructure programs created by Congress." oag.ca.gov/news/press-r... 🔌💡

I wrote more about what public comments generated by a mysterious, A.I.-powered campaign mean for civic engagement. Plus, the lawsuits have begun over the Trump EPA's attempt to rescind the endangerment finding. Here's a roundup of the action. legal-planet.org/2026/02/18/a...

Climate change coverage fell 14% globally in 2025, while the world endured record heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. The crisis intensified. The headlines didn’t. Less coverage = less urgency. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Remember last June when SoCal regulators killed two common sense clean air rules? @hayleysmith.bsky.social has one helluva scoop showing the AQMD board acted after an AI-generated flood of comments. One more way AI is creating air (and information) pollution. legal-planet.org/2025/06/09/w...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19