The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Our new analysis: Europe aims to get off gas - so why are governments taxing it way less than electricity? Tax is a key tool governments can use to boost heat pumps and Europe's sovereignty & energy independence! We discuss this + more at this week's #HPForum. Read: ehpa.org/news-and-res...

Another day, another important dataset that the current administration is suggesting they might break. In this case "an invaluable and growing body of multidisciplinary data that researchers can use to address important questions about the challenges and opportunities of aging."

Says a lot about how reporters cover politics that R's cutting wind and solar incentives can be labeled "House Republican deficit hawks" having voting for a bill that adds <checks notes> $3.4 Trillion to the national debt over a decade. 🦅 vs. 🪚? (Student shared the article in class, new to me)

Hey #EnergySky Interested in your thoughts on this @hankgreen.bsky.social video which already has a million views. I think he has a point that scapegoating wind and solar is a lot easier than explaining gas markets and rate regulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YO... 🔌💡

New report from @rhg.com. As recently as 2023 the projection was for a 29-42% reduction in US GHG emissions by 2030, with continued action at all scales getting up to ~50%. New 2025 analysis shows a measly 25-29% by 2030, with a "reasonable upper bound" basically flat emissions out to 2040.

Federal grants are now terminated on a whim, w/o discussion. "You're done. This project is no longer w/in the administration's scope. Cease & desist activities today." The language is hostile. If you still don't think science is politicized, think again. 🧪 19thnews.org/2025/09/epa-...

Last winter, 600,000+ households in the Mid-Atlantic relied on LIHEAP to keep the lights on & pipes from freezing. Now, the federal budget proposes eliminating the program entirely. LIHEAP saves lives. Op-Ed here: share.google/wPCWNcPEzkY6...

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

A study in contrasts: www.wwlp.com/news/massach...

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Imagine you are the parent of an asthmatic kid: "Comparing the three years before and three years after the closure in the nearby community of Avalon, they found an immediate 20 percent decrease in weekly ER visits for respiratory problems and a 40 percent decrease in visits for pediatric asthma."

It's pretty hilarious to me that, in this area of micro targeting, my Chevy dealership keeps sending me ads for oil and transmission fluid changes, despite the fact that I bought an #EV from them. 🚙

"For the last two decades, scientists have gathered growing evidence that these chemicals are linked to a dizzying array of health problems, including premature birth, infertility and ADHD. And the greatest risks — and the most dangerous outcomes — are to pregnant women and their children."

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

"Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration's focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise."

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Attention @99pi.org - new Massachusetts flag designs just dropped. www.wbur.org/news/2025/08... #flagsky

Months before igniting Texas’ redistricting fight, the Trump administration began testing a strategy of using the courts to force favorable political outcomes. The new voting map, signed into law today by Gov. Greg Abbott, is its latest win. With @texastribune.org

#acadsky For obvious reasons, I'm working extra hard to build classroom community this year. I'm considering using some of Priya Parker's Magical Questions as icebreakers at the start of class. Does anyone have an off the shelf deck of prompts they like to use?

Here's the reports that anti-wind folks don't want you to read. It would be a shame if lots of people read them and reposted them.

These were two policy briefings and a peer-reviewed article produced by undergraduates under my supervision in 2023 and 2024. The letter demands that Brown take the work off its websites. Here's the work: www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/anti-offshor...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

An immediate 40 percent drop in pediatric asthma ER visits (!) People will look back at our fossil era and wonder at why it was allowed to last insideclimatenews.org/news/0508202...

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...

REAP has helped thousands of American farmers install solar panels that lower their energy bills and earn them extra income. The USDA is ending that.

Not a bad list below but climate is a collective problem: 1) Contact your elected reps, often. 2) Vote _and_ work to elect good candidates 3) Join a group advocating for policy change at the national/state/local level 4) Bug your job/church/etc. about climate action What else?

Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue) www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

33 countries generated more than half of their electricity from renewable sources

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

"D.C. crime hit a 30-year low in 2024, according to a Justice Department statement in January"

These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

These reports are "congressionally mandated...authored by hundreds of scientists and experts...take years to research,... go through multiple rounds of peer review. An independent National Academy of Sciences panel signs off on the content." vs. I called 5 scientists who downplay climate risks.

But actually GM in the 70s (for transmission fluid not energy but still)

A new report on electrification from EMBER documents how the potential for electrification has increased over the past century, replacing fossil fuel uses. Nearly all societal needs can be electrified and provided by renewables, firmed by various types of storage. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Clear examples of the degraded forecasts we face in this piece from @michaelrlowry.bsky.social Here's Iona from yesterday, with a clear shot of its internal structure in the current state on top, and a useless green blob in the suggested replacement on bottom.

We're still learning about the health impacts of micro-plastics - @traceywoodruff.bsky.social has some ways to reduce your exposure. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

Offsets: "Given the high planetary stakes in carbon policy choices being made now, it is past time to recognize that third-party auditors selected and paid by the audited organizations are not the bulwark for credit integrity they are claimed to be." @cary-coglianese.bsky.social and Cynthia Giles.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Climate change is real and a huge threat regardless of what politicians do, but chances are your institution ignores it when looking at project economics. If you are frustrated with Congress and looking for something to do (esp. if you are at an academic inst.), read on. 🧵 #AcademicSky

Thinking about this quote from Nathaniel Smith from Partnership for Southern Equity a lot this week "The times do not allow you to be comfortable just doing good work inside your schools.”

Destroying $0.5 Trillion in investment, avg. energy costs up $165, missing out on a nuclear fleets worth of clean energy while adding $3T to the deficit. This is what the Republican party has given the American people to pay for tax cuts that benefit the wealthy the most.

US kids are 15x more likely to die by gun, and 2.5x more likely to die by car than kids in the OECD 18 countries. All while their health is deteriorating in other ways. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...