Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I just finished reading this article and it's very, very good. Corporate power is the problem underneath so many other problems. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Some news. My book on climate and security for Cambridge University Press is the winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order. Thrilled to be among the august company of previous winners. www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltod...

May be seeing the end of an iconic European steel company. www.ft.com/content/2fec...

Serious question: where would any of these pipelines be coming from? The West Coast doesn't have pipeline connections to the rest of the country because it's not close to other oil supply centers and there are inconvenient things like the Rocky Mountains in the way. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Climate Action 100+, a climate investor-led initiative, recognised Nippon Steel's progress in terms of disclosures & announced additional investment in EAFs in 2025. They also pointed out a few areas to continue engagement to strengthen the company’s #climate transition strategy👇 #GreenSteel #Coal

This year's tariff madness has an interesting structural feature. What @jonasnahm.com is calling an "inversion" is that Trump has higher tariff rates on intermediate goods and basic materials (esp. steel and aluminum) than finished goods. He points out one consequence. There are others. A short🧵.

1/4 California refineries are closing faster than gas demand is declining. Two facilities shutting down could eliminate another 18% of the state's refining capacity. Gasoline consumption has fallen 16% over 20 years. buff.ly/26t8H5J

@industriouslabs.bsky.social just released a powerful new tool that analyzes health, demographic, economic, and pollution data in communities impacted by industrial pollution across the US. industriouslabs.org/issues/indus... 1/2

It really feels like it should be a bigger story that the President of Iran said that their capital must be moved because of environmental degradation, including water shortages and land subsidence of 1 foot per year. www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...

Shifting away from fossil fuels & fossil-based materials, to biofuels & biomaterials, means reducing one important source of GHG emissions (fossil fuels) but potentially increasing another (land-use change, driven by increased land demand). It’s essential to account for both sides of this equation.

The chemical industry is a huge source of GHG emissions. Decarbonizing the industry will be hard, but as a UNFCCC technology expert said here, there's no way we can avoid it. COP30 reflected that, with what seemed to be more spotlight on chemicals than past summits. cen.acs.org/environment/...

You're going to focus on lowering costs by cutting the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy? Also, OCED was the coolest thing going. Industrial decarb! This sucks. h/t @heatmap.news

Coal-based steel, it’s a dead end! US Steel planning a new coal-free furnace to make iron for their electric arc furnace in Arkansas. www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/us-s...

Trump's EPA set up a system whereby corporate polluters could be relieved of the burden of meeting air-quality regulations. How? By, uh, asking. Sure enough, lots of them have asked, with devastating consequences for air quality. New report:

Which companies benefited when Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the federal government? @sierraclub.org's Environmental Law Program sues under FOIA demanding access to communications between Musk, DOGE and industries about these cuts. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated." If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭 My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

What effects does industrial pollution have on health, the environment, and communities? New data from @industriouslabs Industrial Equity Mapper shows that across 24 regions, 4.7 million people are at higher risk for long term respiratory illness. industrialequitymapper.org /1

Watching this Legislative committee hearing in Louisiana. It's pretty wild to hear Hyundai talk excitedly about green steel, cleaner air in disadvantaged communities (their term, not mine), and climate solutions, and the reciprocated enthusiasm from committee members.

Total disregard for human life. The end of coal can't come fast enough. "When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: 'So what?'”

This short, 7-minute documentary, looking at one slice of racism as it relates to the steel industry, is good. Touches on the role of redlining, unions, and more. None of this is surprising, but it's important to understand how racism permeates the history of industries like steel.

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

We need to flood EPA with comments opposing their inane proposal to eliminate reporting requirements for Greenhouse Gases. Most companies already track this information and eliminating the requirement will only deprive the public of critical information. It only takes a minute!

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

It’s almost as though these competitively awarded grants in a highly oversubscribed program were selected on the basis of merit and need, not politics or ideology. But that was in the olden times of (checks watch) less than a year ago.

Everything is for sale.

🌏🚨 Documentary screening Monday in Oakland: _Earth's Greatest Enemy_ uncovers a shocking blind spot in the climate conversation: the U.S. military. Directors Abby Martin and Mike Prysner will be there. 6:30pm at the Grand Lake Theater www.renaissancerialto.com/Earths%20Gre...

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Great news: The EPA is withdrawing its proposal to delay the implementation of hazardous air pollutant standards for coke ovens. Very good news for breathers in steel communities. It's nice to win! www.epa.gov/system/files...

A number of automakers are failing to meet their own EV and climate targets - but Stellantis has taken the further step of publicly abandoning them. carbuzz.com/stellantis-a...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Please call the Governor and ask him to sign SB 79! (916) 445-2841

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

While much focus has been on the US/EU, and companies' weakening commitments to clean steel, there have been some exciting developments on the clean steel front that are worth highlighting. TL;DR: The transition to green steel is underway, yet it remains overlooked. A quick thread...

Automakers are watching closely as a new global coalition of organizations calls on Hyundai to clean up its dirty, dangerous supply chain. ➡️Join the movement: eko.org/hyundai-drive-change 🔗Learn more: drive-change.org

This is mind-blowing! The epic battle of the sperm whale and the giant squid has finally been caught on camera. Some combination of _Moby Dick_ and this just straight delightful paper have made this one of my many little manias since way back: www.whoi.edu/science/PO/t... We miss you, Bill.

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit. This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

Yes! energyathaas.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/o...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

We do not spend enough time talking about this graph. IEA thinks there are 70 million barrels per day of oil that can be pumped out of the ground for under $10 a barrel. That's 70% of current production. Oil demand does not have to fall much for prices to fall A LOT. www.iea.org/reports/the-...

And now out of Senate Appropriations and on to the floor. Uncommon but pleasing to see Rs, Ds, unions, businesses, community groups, and more all supporting zero emission programs for industry.

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

Coffee is a popular drink in California, yet the process of roasting coffee beans can be expensive and environmentally damaging. I took a tour of Berkeley's Bellwether Coffee, which is leading clean tech innovation with the development of an all-electric, ventless coffee roaster.