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June 2025
Climate Scientists: "new oil and gas fields licenses in the UK would break the Paris climate deal"
August 2025
Leader of the Conservatives: "We are going to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea” 🤦♂️
On November 27, the Climate Social Science Network is hosting a virtual event commemorating the life's work of Professor Saleemul Huq, including his remarkable efforts to advance adaptation and loss and damage in the UNFCCC. Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Climate activists call EU-US trade deal “disastrous signal for climate action”
- Agreement would massively increase EU imports of US fossil fuels
- Chancellor Merz says deal avoids hardship for German economy
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/climate...
The Department of Energy just canceled a nearly $5 billion loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express, a massive transmission project, following a phone call from Trump.
@zeitlin.bsky.social has more below.
I just received a very interesting email from a reader who worked in nuclear power plant inspection and security for many years during the 1990s and 2000s. His basic point is that Microsoft's plan to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant is ludicrous on its face.
His basic point is that getting everything back up into safe running shape is going to be a *huge* money suck. He's convinced Constellation and/or Microsoft are involved in some kind of Madoff-esque scam -- that they know this thing can't really happen.
www.foundation.org.uk/Blog/2025/Ho...
Social science research is critical in supporting such systemic changes, aimed at redesigning how we live, travel and produce and consume goods and services.
For @climateconnections.bsky.social today I went through 8 different reports on the impacts House Republicans' big budget bill's IRA repeal and summarized 10 different ways they found it would subvert Trump's promises and hurt Americans 🧵 (1/14)
🥜In a nutshell...One Big Beautiful Bill Act is ONE BIG BAD BILL for American households, workers, the economy, and climate. Full analysis is available here, along with State impact sheets. energyinnovation.org/report/one-b...
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the directors of all of EPA's Office of Research and Development research centers resigned this week. Their last days will be Thursday or Friday.
Also, if there's anyone whose beliefs about how to best construct an energy system you can safely ignore, it's anyone leading the AI charge. They really, truly, do not care about where they get the energy they want, and they will get it any way they can--including on the backs of captive ratepayers.
Everything you need to know about the “widespread cuts” to the Inflation Reduction Act and other clean energy programs in House Republicans’ budget proposal 👇
money well spent, excellent work nuclear advocates. you can get back to blaming every blackout on renewables now
Increasing urban vegetation by 30% could have prevented 30% of all heat-related deaths, potentially saving up to ~1.1 million lives globally from 2000 to 2019, according to a study of over 11,000 urban areas.
Any lessons for the future…
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The #IEA-#UK Future of Energy Security summit kicks off today. We are fast heading to a mainstream #renewables, margin #fossils system. > 60 countries attending, showing the big appetite to talk about the energy transition & #energysecurity.
Business and civil society have been very clear:
Infographic comparing amount of US clean energy manufacturing investments that advanced and slowed since Trump took office on January 20, 2025.
What is happening to US clean energy manufacturing investments?
Since Trump took office, 14 projects totaling $12.2 billion in investment and 14,115 jobs have slowed.
My students @wellesley.edu and I are tracking it. Details 🧵 below. 🔌💡🔌🚗
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
Pls join me in wishing Trump a beautiful #EarthDay as he repeals regulations that -
- protect our environment
- offset Climate Change
- regulate toxic emissions
- clean our air & water
Our kids & grandkids will be forever grateful for the love & kindness Trump has shown our planet. - @pbsnews.org
🚨🗓️ On April 24, join us for a #webinar on the aftermath of key climate decisions. Drawing on comparative insights and case studies, speakers will explore the drivers & barriers behind the (non-)implementation of leading climate cases across the🌏.⚖️ Register: events.columbia.edu/go/TheDayAfter
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
- Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out
Story by Helena Horton
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
On April 11, the Trump administration will remove Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires federal agencies to assess environmental impacts of their actions and ensure community input.
Yes. This includes the NRC. The global gold standard for nuclear regulation.
Figure ES.1 Estimates of global data centre energy use in 2023, by assessed quality Notes: Range of estimates include all scenarios, while average values are for base cases only. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of studies (s) and estimates (e). “Not assessed” are studies that did not share sufficient methodological detail to assess their quality.
Figure ES.2 X complementary approaches in estimate global data centre es Descriptive alt text
One of the most rigorous meta-studies trying to estimate global data centre energy consumption by reviewing existing studies
Ends up at ~300 to 400 GWh ish (~1% of total global power, a bit bigger than all of Australia's total power demand)
www.iea-4e.org/wp-content/u...
A timely study from @stanforddoerr.bsky.social researchers published today finds that net-zero energy economies will have fewer trade risks compared with today's fossil-based economy. Energy transition minerals are less geographically concentrated than oil, gas, and coal heatmap.news/energy/net-z...
Tenants aren’t just organizing through crises. They're also looking ahead to greener futures, setting their sights on energy efficiency and decarbonization goals.
One great example of this in SAJE's work to advance decarbonization without displacement. Examples from NY, RI, CT, NC too in the piece.
Pueblo, CO's Comanche 3 #coalplant is scheduled to retire in 2031, a #renewable 'energy park' could be the replacement.
www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/repl...
by our @silviomarcacci.bsky.social and @michelle-solomon.bsky.social #energysky #greensky
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w...
How will Trump's #tariffs impact oil, gas, & our climate?
They threaten to lock in fossil fuel dependency & a cost-of-living crisis. Amid the volatility, it's worth remembering that true energy security & affordability will come from a just transition to renewable energy. ✨
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