A victory for public access to land-- and a conflict between stock raisers and private landowners vs hunters and anglers www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵

What to make of the grid/wildfire nexus as we lean into electrification? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Investigators are still trying to determine what started the Eaton fire, which raged through Altadena, California, and killed 17 people. A new video appears to show sparking on a power line near the origin of the blaze. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...

New Zero episode! 🎧 travelling back in time with @paulsabin.bsky.social and Reagan-era environmental lawyer Jonathan Lash to better understand what may come in the Trump years ahead www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Imagine what we might have done w nine more IQ points www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

RIP Jimmy Carter at 100. Here's a look back at Carter's efforts to balance govt regulation and govt reform. Carter believed that making government more efficient and effective would build public support for active, liberal governance. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...

Read this @washingtonpost article back in June and thought it was an excellent use of audio and graphics in storytelling: www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...

The newly-announced DOGE could help institute these reforms. Unfortunately, Vivek and Elon’s expressed interest in cutting personnel would only exacerbate out state capacity problems – a point I expand on in my op-ed in @TheHill today: thehill.com/opinion/fina... END

🚨New paper: State Capacity for Building Infrastructure US infrastructure construction (transportation, energy, etc.) is often costly & slow. I discuss the data & propose reforms. 🧵 Here is the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" will come out in paperback on December 3. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

"New Perspectives in Energy History" Conference-- Free registration is now open. Saturday, March 2, 2024 in New Haven, CT environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...

Join Yale Environmental History for a virtual talk by Dr. Anto Mohsin on "The Politics of Electrification in Indonesia Post World War II." Thursday 2/8, 4pm ET. #energyhistory environmentalhumanities.yale.edu/event/anto-m...

Join Jiat-Hwee Chang and Yale Environmental History to learn about the technopolitics of cooling infrastructure in Singapore and Doha next Wednesday, Jan 31 @ 7:00pm ET yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...