Every increment matters (and this is a real increment!). This is important progress to celebrate. Then we keep going.

The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo. There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.

Now, for the "good" news: these are still proposed changes! They have not yet gone into effect. The public comment period is now open, and will run through July 13. You can file a comment about this proposed rule changes here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Our federal science funding agencies were designed to support science that is vetted and driven by scientists with a Congressional mandate to be for the public good. The OMB's proposed changes would replace that system with one driven by partisan cronies and special interests. 15/n

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

💯 Our e-bike has been transformational for life in a first-ring suburb. School dropoff? Faster than a car. Playgrounds? Massively expanded radius. Big community events? Parking never a problem. Getting kids out the door? They *want* to be on the bike. Hills? Not a thing.

As much as I’m a fan of talking about politics in more parts of everyday life, I think the Revolutionary Communists have misread the kid-filled block party 🙃

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

An inauspicious start: they cannot get the door to close on the brand new Acela.

That's what we want: a lot of amazing green jobs building rewarding infrastructure that will make your kids lives better, make sure that our nation's housing stock increases rather than decreases, and for people to pay less money for energy.

"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡

TL;DR It’s a good fight with clear impacts on people and stereotype-level villains. Make things cheaper, cleaner, and more secure! (Everyone should talk about climate more regularly and more casually)

It’s short for “Metric Gala.”

Is electricity demand growth AND fossil decline possible? Australia says YES 🇦🇺 Fossil generation is now down 23% since the peak in 2009, despite demand rising 14% over the same period. Solar and wind have grown 20x since then and now make up a third of Australia's electricity.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Great to see the @bostonglobe.com out with a clear and early editorial backing Wu’s exploration of congestion pricing for Boston. Build on the successes in NYC and elsewhere with our penninsular downtown!

Is The Philippines about to be the next Pakistan of solar? There was 10GW of panels exported from China to The Philippines in the last 12 months... 10GW would generate 11% of total national consumption.. and quadruple the country's 2025 solar output🤯 So how real is this? 🧵

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Free media idea: recast the A. Prime commercial around learning to cook with each step exploring more of the city around her. The cooking store, ethnic grocery store, laughing with owners, meeting neighbors. An ad for connection rather than isolation.

... but the fact of the matter is this: US scientists losing their labs have nowhere to go because nothing like the US life sciences system that RFK Jr. shattered exists elsewhere. It will take years and years to rebuild where it doesn't exist now.

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Looking forward to hearing about local solar policy changes as a result!

jesus christ

NY: call your state legislators and demand they stop Hochul’s attack on New York’s climate law. If she succeeds she will raise our energy bills, destroy jobs and increase pollution. Call now and leave them a message! www.fastcompany.com/91516885/new...

Required reading, and a foundational article to pull out as the topic comes up. Reo’s work should be read with the same lens as Robert Caro’s - when they share a source (or negative) you should assume they found the weird archive half drowned in the river to check.

Many more people should play Daybreak - it’s such a delight, and so many of the real-world feedback loops are sneakily perfect in the game. #sharehoodnewstoo

New from us: how Pakistan's solar boom is dampening the impact of the Hormuz crisis on the country. Solar power allowed LNG&diesel imports to fall after the previous gas crisis in 2021-22, with the solar boom set to avoid $7bn in fossil fuel import costs this year.

Things it would be helpful if everyone knew that add to the many reasons we should be rapidly working to end our dependence on fossil fuels. 👇

International Energy Agency says outcome of U.S.-Israel War on Iran: "higher oil prices and a deteriorating economic outlook have begun to erode demand across the [oil] product spectrum." Global oil demand growth in March & April expected to fall by over 1 million barrels per day.🧵

Ørsted's 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project started delivering power to New England's electric grid yesterday: orsted.com/en/media/new... 🔌💡

Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow. Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!

thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.

This is really nicely done, and is a nice example of how much the climate and housing advocacy communities have in common. Great work, Dave & co.

The Gulf promised Silicon Valley stability for its trillion-dollar AI boom. Iranian strikes are testing that promise in real time https://restofworld.org/2026/amazon-uae-data-center-fire-iran-strike/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1772493180

I'm reminded of this point from an interesting energy system modeling paper from a few months ago Cost difference bw renewables/fossil lower than it first appears - renewable pays up front, but fossil has economic/geopolitical price volatility that adds cost (and is rarely priced in)

This winter is such a great example of shifting baselines. As someone in the east, it was cold this winter. Full stop. But it "felt" even more frigid because we haven't had such cold recently. It was cold but not historically so. But good heavens look at that record-breaking heat out West. 🔥

“The Trump administration “is telling American manufacturers, ‘You guys go build gasoline cars again,’” he said. “The Chinese government is telling its manufacturers, ‘You go build the advanced vehicles that are going take over the world.’”

Working on climate makes me think a lot about language that is accurate but also at the scale of the problem - this shows why “concentration camps” is the right term for the US, in exceptional prose.

In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Unchecked Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trap Heat, Destabilizing Global Weather Patterns And Putting Millions Of Lives At Risk vs. No They Don’t

Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

To miscapitalize Gov Landry (R-LA): “ICE on the road is not only dangerous, it is deadly”

I feel so aged by this IHOP kids menu.

This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism. We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Great - Now do gender-affirming care!