This irruption of California Tortoiseshell butterflies extends into the South Bay. I've been seeing lots in Palo Alto www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Friday afternoon scoop 👇 About $50 billion in wind investments and 150,000 jobs are imperiled by the Trump administration’s effective halt to approvals for new onshore projects, according to a trade group report reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

not as exciting as the ballroom fund but this corrupt act will kill millions. why they've been firing all the scientists

If the California legislature fails to act, schools across this state will get screwed over and not get to electrify. That's terrible news for kids, who need clean air and air conditioning in classrooms. Here's what's happening at Santa Barbara Unified. www.independent.com/2026/05/20/s...

This is a quick summary of the latest CMIP process. It is a complex beast and a consensus project so there are always things that you’ll agree with and those that you might not. 1/

Does new transmission actually move the needle on clean energy? Here's a month of California data before and after SunZia came online. Wind is up by a third, and gas down by a third. Judge for yourself.

Just to give you a sense of how bullshit the "national security" rationale is for blocking wind turbines is, the Trump regime wants to drill in areas that the military is actively using and generals think drilling platforms will compromise readiness. wapo.st/4wGaKak

Carbon prices need to cover imports. This is what happens when they don't

NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...

I don’t think that should be allowed to happen.

From the just released transcript of today’s closed door hearing in the Broadview case

The Dutch Supreme Court 🇳🇱 is hearing a landmark climate case on Fri, Milieudefensie v. Shell, that saw a court in 2021 order the company to slash its CO2 emissions 45% by 2030 @milieudefensie.bsky.social is asking the supreme court to reinstate that order www.climateinthecourts.com/shell-climat...

Donald Trump's billion dollar slush fund is the latest in a long line of impeachable offenses. He's using government resources and taxpayer money to help insurrectionists and protect people in his circles from accountability—and it's blatantly unconstitutional. It's time for impeachment.

I work in the largest academic HVAC research lab in the US. Tons of my prof and grad student colleagues have worked for years to characterize low-GWP refrigerants and adapt equipment to use them. In collaboration with most major manufacturers. That train is moving, fast. Trump lackeys won't stop it.

Every single policy reads like it was written by a greenhouse gas

Absolute fucking morons who upturned my life for no reason. They will see justice.

Dismissed with prejudice = case over & cannot be refiled. Have a nice day and go away, DOJ.

Cornell has an Ag School but did you know Chicago has an ag high school. I met a guy who went there years ago because his mom was afraid he'd get into trouble if he went to his suggested school and he loved it. Said it was weird going to like 4h stuff in rural areas of IL cause he is Black

Phasing out high-GWP refrigerants is ridiculously cost effective warming prevention. You have to be really motivated to do environmental damage to bring them back after most appliance makers have switched away

Just saw a sudden streak of light in the sky above Palo Alto, like a piece of space debris burning up. Glowed red and green

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution endorsing the International Court of Justice's historic climate advisory opinion Only 8 countries voted against it, incl. the US - the world's biggest historical polluter & oil/gas producer insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

This NYT front page from 24 June 1988 is admirably direct. "Sharp cut in burning of fossil fuels"

“March was a scorching 9.35 degrees F hotter than the 20th-century average..capping the hottest 12-month stretch for the U.S. since records began in 1895.” 9.35 degrees is….a thing we should all be focused on. That level of a swing should not be possible for a whole month, over the whole world.

For years, I've been fighting to hold Big Oil accountable for deceiving consumers. They're scared, so they ran to Trump for help. Now Trump is suing MN to try to stop our lawsuit. Minnesotans deserve their day in court and we'll keep fighting for it.

The current U.S. grid: -44% cleaner than 1990 -Texas nearly matches the national average -Illinois almost cleaner than California (nuclear+renewables OG) -Coal states still high (though ND dropping thanks to wind)

Not here. Not ever.

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

I was last week years old when I learned that folks fight against air pollution regulation in India by claiming Indian people are uniquely adapted to dirty air (in part because of, amongst other things, yogic breathing 🤯) Incredibly story from @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/air-pol...

BREAKING: Big, positive housing/climate news in New York: A HUGE tax benefit for energy efficiency for multifamily middle- and working-class NYC co-ops & condos is in a state budget bill passing shortly. It’s called J51. It covers 100% of the costs of upgrades, and lasts through 2035. 👏👏👏+info🧵

“For the first time since 1921, Stanford is moving away from its unproctored past, where students were fully trusted to deliver on academic honesty” stanforddaily.com/2026/05/20/s...

🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Journalists need to avoid making this category error

Why did Meta and Airbnb give $3M combined to elect Xavier Becerra just yesterday? Same reason Chevron, PG&E, and the insurance lobby did. They know he'll protect their profits. They know I won't.

This is the full, annotated transcript with explanations and fact checks where Tice’s comments contained inaccuracies or required additional context. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

James Murdoch, Intent on ‘Thoughtful Journalism,’ Buys Half of Vox Media www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

While American consumers are paying more at the pump, oil & gas corporations are raking in record profits. Shell posted $6.9 billion in earnings—their highest in two years. It's time to hold Big Oil accountable & end the war in Iran to bring prices down. You deserve better.

So batteries are getting to the point where you could tell a utility "If half your customers get a KitchenAid stand mixer equivalent appliance, you can flatten your two peakiest hours every day."

Trump has called climate change a hoax, con job and scam. Then Saturday he posted about an obscure tool climate modelers use to standardize the configuration of their simulation runs. Here's what it is and why. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The latest in my 10-post series on hurricanes and climate change covers studies showing dramatic swings between active and inactive hurricane seasons are likely in the future, the risk of back-to-back hurricanes is growing, and hurricanes will likely get more damaging and deadly.

"The fantasy version of the normal updating of scenarios for a new round of CMIP simulations doing the rounds is bad faith BS." ---- Scenarios, schmenarios… www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Hugely important reporting. Failure of notionally democratic regimes to reduce harm to populations - so stark when it’s visible air pollution - vs other regimes eg China, deeply challenges legitimacy. Follow @rishpardikar.bsky.social!!

A proposal to build an open-pit cyanide heap leach gold mine at Hot Creek near Mammoth Lakes is back.

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

It’s here. The Trump Administration has issued an Executive Order that includes a requirement for banks to collect customers’ citizenship information. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Some of my climate media colleagues are suddenly hating on solar in rural areas without realizing it's the newest fossil fuel disinformation talking point aimed at getting landowners to stop leasing their land to solar developers. Y'all, we need solar EVERYWHERE.

This is impacting all feeds which are hosted on Skyfeed, including the Gift Links feed.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

Don’t Overlook This Surprising Climate Victory. A critical mass of the world economy is now working together to phase out fossil fuels. In Santa Marta Colombia, history was made. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...