Social license matters. The tech industry's rush to site data centers without addressing community concerns about costs, pollution, public health, and other issues has generated a massive backlash that cuts across partisan lines. @heatmap.news @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

New: Berkeley is the first US city to require home sellers and buyers to replace gas furnaces/water heaters with heat pumps or make other green upgrades as a condition of sale. It's changing the local real estate market as sellers tout electrification. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

$9.5 billion—those are the New England transmission cost savings that could be achieved via public financing, according to a major new study from Acadia Center and Clean Air Task Force. 🔌💡 acadiacenter.org/a-smarter-wa...

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

States across the West are dealing with outdated funding systems in the face of skyrocketing wildfire costs. Some are responding in creative ways: www.hcn.org/articles/wil...

same

People are literally moving to Issaquah so their kids have safe places to bike but as a city we still apparently aren't sure if we should build safer streets. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

👏👏👏 www.eenews.net/articles/haw...

Whenever I'm in traffic I imagine pictures like these. Deleting all the cars and seeing how few people they're transporting + all the empty space that is opened up.

PSA this is NOT Sightline Institute @sightline.org !!

Happy Earth Day, NYC!   An affordable city is a sustainable city. I'm proud to support NYCHA’s ambitious new Sustainability Agenda, which includes heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations, induction stoves, and other energy-efficiency upgrades for NYCHA residents over the next five years.

If you're not excited about WA's new state transmission authority, you're not paying attention!

It's ironic that the Seattle Times ed board chose #earthday to call for weakening WA's climate laws. And ICYMI, my @sightline.org colleague Laura Feinstein fact checked the study that's behind the renewed calls for gas www.sightline.org/2026/03/24/t... www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

I continue to be impressed with how Mamdani keeps churning out really tangible wins. Would love to see more things like this from @mayorofseattle.bsky.social. Many more bike lanes + walkable places, quickly, for example.

Yes revealnews.org/article/shou...

"The average American homeowner isn’t responsible for this climate chaos; why are they the ones picking up the tab for the billions of dollars of damage it leaves in its wake?" @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

insurance companies shouldn't be allowed to invest in fossil fuels

Thermal energy networks (TENs) -- networks of pipes that bring up heat from under the earth's surface to warm homes & buildings without pollution or emissions -- are breaking out all over! Here's a new one in a tiny, rural NC town:

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

🚨Rep. Harriet Hageman just introduced a bill in Congress to kill lawsuits and superfund laws that would make oil companies pay for climate damages. The lawmaker's press release features a joint statement from the two largest oil & gas lobby groups in the country. hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have launched the Sound Transit Now campaign. Guest op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconn...

Great! Now let's add a permanent bike lane too? At least close one lane to cars permanently?

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns. Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

Crucial infrastructure for King County’s clean energy future is under attack and needs our help. Please visit our site to email King County!

I continue to think data center demand projections are overblown

The main driver of gas-utility bills used to be the price of gas itself, but utility spending on gas infrastructure has more than tripled in the last decade—now making up the bulk of consumer costs.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Just returned from Spokane and Bend for focus groups on the grid. One of the biggest takeaways: people don't understand or believe the link between expanding the grid and fighting climate change, even if they are all for more clean energy.

New gas-fired power plants aren't the answer for the PNW's energy needs. In a recent OPB article, the non-partisan think tank @sightline.org makes the case that building gas infrastructure isn’t the only answer. To learn more, listen to the full interview: www.opb.org/article/2026... #CleanEnergy

More transmission means better access to wind and solar, less reliance on volatile fossil fuels, a more resilient grid, and less overbuilding of generation. @ktrumbull.bsky.social with smart ideas to get grid projects off the ground in Oregon -- one of the hardest places to get it done today.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Ooh, good stuff here from @permitpower.bsky.social: a scorecard that ranks all 50 states on how easy it is to install solar, how smooth they've made permitting & interconnection, etc.

In September I visited one of the half-finished nuclear reactors in Satsop, WA. We're still paying it off, after the largest municipal bond default in US history (known as "Whoops"). Let's not repeat history.

Feeling a lot of trepidation about the fire season this morning.

Breaking: #waleg passes SB 6355 to establish a state transmission authority, with bipartisan support. One big step to expanding our grid so we can connect more wind and solar and free ourselves from polluting, dangerous, and expensive fossil fuels. app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...

ICYMI, state transmission authority may happen in #waleg this year (i.e., today or tomorrow), after all! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

This is what ecocide looks like.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Come for the great explainer on a better voting system. Stay for the satisfying clatter of animated marbles.

New @sightline.org report w/ @emilymoore.bsky.social!🔥 Policy tools to ⬇️ #wildfire risk in the PNW: steer development away from risky areas, strengthen building codes, rebuild safer post-disaster, disclose hazard to renters/buyers & price insurance accurately. www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...

People are pissed off about the rising cost of home insurance, understand that climate change-driven extreme weather disasters are making things more expensive, and support holding Big Oil accountable for those costs rather than everyday Americans. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

Welp washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

"There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States before the bombing campaign, said Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, on exiting a classified briefing on the war."

Reminder that *projections* about AI data centers causing sky-high electricity demand are not the same as AI data centers *already* having driven up electricity demand. (Yes there are hot spots where the latter has actually happened, but not yet nationwide) www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

Let's do for wildfires what we’ve done for floods: stopping sprawl to risky areas, retrofitting homes to withstand fire, and rebuilding in places less likely to burn. @rpelai.bsky.social @emilymoore.bsky.social

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...