"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone." "80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."

"It would be prudent to keep all low-carbon options on the table, including nuclear," writes Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

Must read by my colleague Michelle Cottle for anyone with parents: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

“We don’t want a situation where the insurance market is effectively decimating the real estate market." In some places, we're already there. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“global reinsurance companies have had what the researchers call a ‘climate epiphany’ and have roughly doubled the rates.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

Look at this cute little thing!

Incredible epsiode of The Daily featuring @hannahdreier.bsky.social and her revelatory reporting on unmasked firefighters and the health consequences they face www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...

Same, same. “Forty years later, when I look at satellite imagery and other data on hurricanes and extreme weather, I often cannot believe my eyes. Most of these mind-boggling events have a potential link to climate change.” 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

NOAA’s hurricane research division staff has been cut from 52 in 2020 to 28 in 2025, almost a 50% cut. They’ve resorted to using volunteers to man the critical radar and dropsonde stations on Hurricane Hunter flights. Senseless cuts in an era of climate change making the strongest storms stronger.

California "deployed a 'strike team' to work around the clock chasing wolves away from livestock, shooting at them with bean bags, and erecting new fencing. But the wolves found ways around these deterrence efforts and killed even more cattle." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Appreciate @elizabarclay.bsky.social and NYT inviting me to share my perspectives about #Melissa. Between climate change and expanding bullseye, we need to be redoubling our efforts to be able forecast, mitigate and respond to these disastrous weather and water events www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Thrilled to work with @wxmanms1.bsky.social, whose Substack I've read and admired for some time, on this piece on #Melissa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Without knowing the details of the impacts of the tidal cycle in this area, it is seriously impossible to imagine a worse case scenario for surge as far as the angle a category 5 hurricane is hitting this bay.

@wxmanms1.bsky.social Hi Alan, I am a NYT Opinion editor. Would love to connect with you about writing a piece for us about Melissa. [email protected]

Melissa has rapidly intensified into a category 4 major hurricane according to preliminary NHC estimates: - from 60 to 120 kt in 24 hours (⬆️ 60 kt) - from 90 to 110 kt in just 6 hours (⬆️ 20 kt) This slow-moving storm will not only deliver damaging winds & storm surge but also catastrophic rainfall.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad. foodfix.co/the-shutdown...

A new Idaho law makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.” ➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj

Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Soon-to-be Hurricane #Melissa has potential to be a devastating tropical cyclone in the Caribbean. This will be an extremely slow moving storm, and will tap a very deep pool of highly anomalously warm ocean water (i.e., "hurricane fuel). [1/2] #Hispanola #Jamaica

Fortunate that @climatecentral.org is keeping the billion-dollar climate-related disaster list going, as the first half of 2025 was a doozy. You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Customers in the South experienced more electricity loss than any other region (77%) in the aftermath of extreme weather events. Its average outage length when the outage is caused by extreme weather is 95.2 hours." www.jdpower.com/business/res...

"Beijing’s ultimate objective is to become a supplier of nuclear power to the world" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What do climate scientists really think about solar geoengineering? For @newscientist.com, @tinymaddie.bsky.social and I surveyed 120 IPCC authors about their attitudes towards solar geoengineering given the world's failure to slash emissions on time. The results were surprising:

As the Border Patrol heads to the Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi today said local law enforcement may arrest federal troops who break California law. The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them. W/ @kellen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

“We pay farmers to farm soybeans, pay them more to convert some of those soybeans into inefficient fuels, pay them even more when they can’t sell soybeans because of our trade war, then pay extra to bail out one of the countries replacing them in the marketplace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

“After two years of war in Gaza and nearly nine months into Donald Trump’s second presidency,” Meher Ahmad writes, the treatment of Zohran Mamdani ”is like a black light, revealing the flecks of anti-Muslim bigotry that still dapple American institutions.”

Love this article. So many everyday uses of PFAS are non-essential, including cookware. "A good pan is like a trusted friend: It improves with time, instead of slowly poisoning you." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Endorse

"But the political left is not the problem today. The Democratic Party under Mr. Biden expanded domestic oil and gas production while making major investments in clean energy." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

A good pan is like a trusted friend: It improves with time, instead of slowly poisoning you. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

It's true. There's a special pride in learning how to fry eggs perfectly in a stainless steel pan.

Pair this with @sammyroth.bsky.social's recent column at the LA Times on CA quitting coal www.latimes.com/environment/...?

On the Colorado River, there is no more water. That's the warning from a coalition of environmental groups urging for action and transparency regarding the river's future. My latest: insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

The great Andrew Zimmern: "Eliminating PFAS in cookware would reduce the spread of contamination, protect future generations and, as a bonus, allow us to rediscover how to actually cook." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Great oped on #coal from IEEFA. It's dirty, expensive, declining in use, and the administration is backing its play. Coal fired power generation is a relic of the past & #taxpayers need to say enough already www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required. It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.

"Most of the coal mined in the United States today fuels aging electric power plants such as Cumberland that are costly to maintain and increasingly unsound." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

We're collecting stories (and bills) about electricity! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

"One key focus will be campus organizing to urge schools to resist Trump’s attempts to control their curricula and rules around political dissent, the letter from Shiney-Ajay says." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Great piece by @adamfrank4.bsky.social about growing skepticism of science in the manosphere www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...