SO excited that this Drilled Podcast series is LIVE! And just ahead of the release of the global assessment, the first-of-its-kind compendium of knowledge on why we are failing to do enough on climate change. Thank you @amywestervelt.bsky.social !

"Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at the recent “environmental protection” meeting of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), ...The ICAO is the forum where nations agree the rules governing international aviation." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Forensic accounts of #climateobstruction networks Familiar #BigTobacco tactics but lens here is on a wider set of liable actors & enablers -supply chain coalitions, trade associations, utilities, car manufacturers, meat & dairy Trade assn ++spend in this area is on advertising & promotion #CDoH

Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

SO excited that this Drilled Podcast series is LIVE! And just ahead of the release of the global assessment, the first-of-its-kind compendium of knowledge on why we are failing to do enough on climate change. Thank you @amywestervelt.bsky.social !

“We’re buying 30 years of power at a fixed price, and it’s a good price,” he said. ​“The states have decided they want to buy this stuff.” By blocking completion of Revolution Wind, the Trump administration is ​“forcing fossil fuels down our throats” Nicely said www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

“Nearly $240 million poured in during the first and second quarters of 2025, with about 2,200 lobbyists representing the sector” Top spender? Utilities Share This Article insideclimatenews.org/news/0809202...

A brilliant overview of current world politics and the carbon based strategy being pushed by Trump in contrast to the renewable strategy emerging elsewhere including China. @mkblyth.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social #Drilled

These numbers are pre-Trump. It's going to get much worse. We are literally cooking ourselves, people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Holy crap this is good. You’re wondering WTpF? Why is Trump doing this insane stuff? Here’s the big picture. It’s a terrible gamble with the American economy. And with a livable planet for us and our descendants. Madness. drilled.media/news/anti-re...

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Important, rear-guard work. Thanks to these scientists. www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/8...

just interesting. "Europe installed 16.4 GW of new wind power capacity in 2024, for a total of 285 GW of wind power capacity. "37 GW offshore." This corresponds to more than 5,954 grid-connected wind turbines in 126 offshore wind farms across 13 countries. windeurope.org/data/product...

“In a short time, Zeldin has done more damage to the EPA than any previous administration,” says lead author Chris Sellers. “Rather than an EPA that works for the health of the public, Zeldin is reshaping the EPA to work for polluters and the wealthy.” envirodatagov.org/publication/...

“These were permitted rather quickly,” Mr. Wright said. “If you do something fast and quickly.. bad things happen.” But 'Vineyard Wind..applied for permits in 2017 and was approved in 2021. Revolution Wind went through nine years of federal and state reviews..' www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

So this is next -- targeting individual labs and trying to break the universities until they hide or forbid specific types of research.

I'm on the editorial board of this important journal, and this would be a good role for up-and-coming scholars. You'd learn a ton about what research is going on right now. Thanks for passing it on.

'In the measured world of grid operators, warnings like these are ​“unprecedented,” said Abe Silverman, an attorney, energy consultant,&research scholar @JHU. But so is the threat of the federal government smashing a cornerstone of a region’s energy mix, he said. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

"Does this sound like a federal government that is prioritizing the American people? This is bizarre, this is unlawful, this is potentially devastating, and we won’t stand by and watch it happen.” Amen, RI Attorney General @peterfneronha.bsky.social riag.ri.gov/press-releas...

AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

“Most of us are Trump voters, and we still believe in a leader who builds. That’s why we’re asking President Trump to reverse the stop-work order issued to Revolution Wind by Interior,” Yerman told Canary Media www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

"In concert, industry front groups with deceptive names like Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future and Consumers Energy Alliance are mobilizing in support of fossil fuels and attacking clean energy." More research needed. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/m...

Mind-boggling. This is not democracy. The "fossil fuel sector [is] primary force behind..$954-million (2024 USD) lobbying campaign [on] (CCUS etc.).. comprised at least 54,243 contacts of high-ranking government officials..w/ significant legislative results." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ridiculous - I hope Brown stands up to this like Harvard has. This lab produces leading work on climate obstruction - it's helped me understand the organized, global, network of anti-renewables astroturfing - across the US, Australia, etc. It's importance is exactly why they're being targeted.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

This is just so self-defeating for our country. Creating complete unpredictability for an infant industry Killing an infant in its cradle…really people?? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

“In the end, government officials have granted only one researcher access to that kind of specificity within the data. That person is Elizabeth Fussell, who was an assistant professor at Tulane University from 2001 to 2007.” And now is at @BrownUniv. Kudos, Beth! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

So brutal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Who? API, US Chamber, Project 2025, Heartland, Koch, et al., that's who. www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/c...

Americans: it takes just a minute to submit a comment to the EPA asking them to preserve the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which finds carbon dioxide emissions to be dangerous to public health/welfare..it underpins all subsequent federal regulation of CO2 emissions www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

Americans: it takes just a minute to submit a comment to the EPA asking them to preserve the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which finds carbon dioxide emissions to be dangerous to public health/welfare..it underpins all subsequent federal regulation of CO2 emissions www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

The inquiry is largely pushed in light of the astroturfing going on in Australia, as studied by @jeremywalker.bsky.social and reported on by @cameronwilson.bsky.social reneweconomy.com.au/senate-launc...

Make no mistake: "wind turbines cause significantly fewer bird deaths than buildings, cats or oil pits. The Audubon Society says that climate change poses a bigger threat to birds than wind power." Good reporting @lisafriedman.bsky.social Explore gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/c...

The Republican Party in America as well as Canada's supposed "Conservatives" marched in lockstep with the world's oil companies in denying the science of human-caused #ClimateChange & slow-walking if not outright outlawing the solutions, profiting mightily the whole time. You lit the match /2

“People across the country are already reeling from climate-fueled worsening heatwaves, floods, wildfires and storms. Lying about that reality doesn’t change it; it just leaves people in harm’s way. We urge Congress to intervene...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The slowdown in enforcement has let some polluters off the hook and left communities more exposed to hazardous pollution, former officials, environmental lawyers and activists say." MAGA. Please. Explore this gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

Three years -- even more relevant today. Follow the money, fight for the money -- at the federal, state, and campus level. Don't wait to bicker over the crumbs of department allocations. Fight bigger. @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

This bill guts climate action; it locks in volatile "natural" gas dependency. "The new law was introduced..by Republican Sen. Paul Newton, a former Duke Energy executive. (Newton resigned to accept a job..[at].. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) " insideclimatenews.org/news/2907202...

I with Levitsky in this diagnosis. Hideous effort to undermine another democracy like his is our own. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Red alert. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Make no mistake on why this extortion was undertaken. "This is a monumental victory for conservatives" --United States Secretary of Education

Read the agreement between Columbia and the USA. Despite the claims of the president of the university, this was extortion, and the hostage gave up its freedom to operate. This thread gets at several of the bad points, but there are many. Grilling international students, and keeping it white...

Per the warden’s report at tonight’s meeting of the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, there are currently 116 ICE detainees at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I. (112 men and 4 women.)

IBES affiliate @maratimes.bsky.social, an assistant professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, lost her first federally funded grant from NASA earlier this year. “One of my big concerns is that the trust in science and in scientists is broken,” she told @virginiagewin.bsky.social.

Searches using AI use 4-5 times more energy therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...

The only group that came even remotely close to getting the growth of solar right back in 2009 was not the IEA or J. P. Morgan Chase or Dow Jones or BlackRock. It was Greenpeace. And even they were way too pessimistic.