California risks setting a dangerous precedent as states struggle to protect people from the oil industry’s buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines. www.levernews.com/a-climate-le...

With the federal government blocking action on the climate crisis, its great to see California moving forward. Good summary on the recent legislative victories from @cetransition.bsky.social www.cleanenergytransition.org/post/califor...

"Against all odds, climate advocates and the California Legislature extended (and renamed) California’s landmark Cap-and-Trade Program, made electricity more affordable, got serious about a fast-and-fair fossil fuel phaseout, and made the state’s grid more reliable," writes @danielbarad.bsky.social.

California passed a huge climate package last month, w/ a big effort to weave in affordability. It's wonky but important stuff, and I broke it all down for you: - Cap & invest extension / rebrand - transmission accelerator - permission to join a Western RTO! more here heatmap.news/energy/calif...

Recording a special Jane Goodall episode for the What If We Get It Right? podcast. Coming your way tomorrow — subscribe wherever you get your pods 🎙️ www.getitright.earth/podcast

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians. Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates? energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley work in intense heat 8 months a year. Air conditioning is essential to their recovery at the end of each day. But it's expensive! I visited on a sweltering day to document an effort to bring costs down for one family. 🌞 insideclimatenews.org/news/0410202...

🚨 Newsom just signed a bill that will EXPAND oil drilling in California 🚨 This signals “what could become a dangerous new pattern: allowing Big Oil to hold California hostage every time a refinery announces a potential closure.” Read more: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Electric-powered airplane Alia can take off on a conventional runway or lift off vertically like a helicopter. It can carry four passengers or about 200 cubic feet of cargo and has a maximum range of more than 300 miles. #FossilFree www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/29/b...

six, three-decade-old arrays in Switzerland found them to still be working well, retaining more than 80% of their initial power www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Wyoming coal could be shipped to Asia via Oakland by 2028. h/t @jfern.bsky.social cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/18/c...

“Riverine heat waves” occur more often than air heat waves in 65 to 76% of sites, nationally. www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/riv... California “cold water droughts” (~same thing) increasingly result from mix of climate & landscape/water mgmt impacts, w/dire effects. www.ppic.org/blog/tacklin...

“It’s not a future set of abstract numbers. It’s real and it’s immediate.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hidden Costs of Climate Change Fueling Affordability Crisis in California — New Report cleantechnica.com/2025/09/26/h...

State of California continues to lead on climate action, including climate disclosure, mandated for 4,000+ companies, including most of S&P500 www.esgtoday.com/california-r...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

Methane digesters on dairy farms are controversial, but there's another set of solutions that involve separating manure from liquid and composting it to add to the soil. We took a deep-dive into manure management in California. localnewsmatters.org/2025/09/26/m...

The bill would allow Kern County to open up to 2,000 oil drill permits each year for the next 10 years. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“We’re planning for up to 25 gigawatts by 2045 because it’s essential that we meet our clean energy goals, create good-paying jobs, and keep the state competitive globally.” - Jana Ganion, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior advisor for offshore wind. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Are you helping your kids with their homework? Teaching them how to save for retirement? Ok. But are you preparing them for this👇, the result of our current emissions trajectory?

"The most controversial bill in the package was Senate Bill 237, which will allow oil and gas companies to drill up to 2,000 new wells per year through 2036 in Kern County." www.latimes.com/california/s...

With climate and clean energy policy under attack, California just doubled down on leadership reut.rs/3KbkuFX

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And who doesn't need a glimmer of hope? www.oneearthnow.org/p/surge-in-s...

Politico's Climate California lays out the winners and losers of California's long-awaited cap-and-trade extension — a new spending plan for the roughly $4 billion that the program generates every year. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The CA legislature agreed on a sprawling energy and climate package now on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. @jeffstjohn.bsky.social has some details: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

Anyone who wants to stream or show this film, please do! It's a powerful way to get folks thinking about solar

Rare good news: “State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.” energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

Inland Empire communities face dangerous levels of shipping industry pollution — the same emissions warming the planet. After a rule that would have protected residents near rail yards fell apart under Trump's EPA, they're hoping the state takes the lead. capitalandmain.com/effort-to-cu...

Authority CEO Ian Choudri thanks State leaders for a continued commitment to delivering California’s high-speed rail project by agreeing to reauthorize the Cap-and-Invest program, securing $1 billion for the project annually through 2045.🚅🤝 🔗 bit.ly/4mX3zVR

The guaranteed lifeline from California’s Cap-And-Invest program gives the bullet train leverage for public-private partnerships.

California Assembly and Senate just passed AB 1207, extending and strengthening the state’s centerpiece climate policy - cap and invest- for the next 20 years. Now onto the governor’s signature! #climatesky #energysky

I asked one of the most progressive city councilors in #LA to weigh in on whether the city should require A/C for renters. In 2023 #LosAngeles said A/C for all wasn't practical. But heat waves are getting longer, hotter, more dangerous for more than a million households. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

PNNL researchers showed rooftop solar + storage could offset two-thirds of the savings households try to get by cutting heat, cooling, or even food/health spending Clean energy can fight climate change and help families live safely & comfortably. nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02517-5 #EnergySky

electrek.co/2025/09/09/t... I don't know if wave power will ever pan out, but it is so tantalizing. All that kinetic energy, visible to the naked eye, but ready to corrode and beat the crap out of anything you put in it. All the designs make me think of the wacky early days of human flight.

This is a useful visual. www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...

Teresa Cheng of Industrious Labs spoke to KneeDeep’s reporting partner at the UC Berkeley Climate Equity Project about #decarbonization work during the Trump administration. buff.ly/59Vmun1 🧵 7/7

We made a YouTube Short picking apart Metrolink’s incorrect and misleading claims regarding electrification of its system. youtube.com/shorts/cn_2s...

This is a great look at climate, heat, and shade for low-income parts of Los Angeles. 👇 www.pbssocal.org/shows/earth-...

Why is transit oriented so important? NIMBY s are right that CA housing is such a big problem, this one bill can't solve them. But YIMBYs are right that doing nothing will make it worse. 🧵 about why passing SB 79 is so desperately needed

This is a serious course reversal. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Rural Communities Rising wants to give a voice to 36 communities in Fresno County. “We don’t want free money,” explained the group's director. “We want jobs with better pay, so we don’t just survive but have a better life." pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/09/09/s...

Four Black churches in Bay Area are combining resilience hubs with charging infrastructure in an effort to bring investment to long-overlooked communities and increase their own financial stability. insideclimatenews.org/news/0709202...

Installation costs can be prohibitive for many people who want to switch to electric heat pumps. This company is taking a vertical integration approach to lowering that cost by "30%-50%," according to its founder. www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...

Solar microgrids look pretty great when the alternative is digging a super long trench to bury a power line so it doesn't start wildfires.

Our new @pnas.org study, out today, finds #EVs are not only clean cars, they can be catalysts in building a cleaner power grid too. Here's what that means for the U.S. study /w Lily Hanig, @destenie.bsky.social & @cdharper.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Resiliency implies maintaining where you’re at, but most of us would agree that the current baseline isn’t where we want it to be. Communities need to be generating their own money to implement their own decarbonization projects.” @akinslow2.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0709202...

When you cover a field in solar panels, you don’t cover everything. And in a warming world, that leftover shaded space is invaluable, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.

The big statewide program that will soon begin installing heat pumps in low-income people's homes (the Equitable Building Decarbonization Statewide Direct Install Program) just released the list of communities it will focus on initially. See the map below: www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and...