Aimee Witteman
@aimeewitteman.bsky.social
Pro-housing decarb strategist. Midwest kid in D.C.⚡️ Also posts on democracy, bikes, trail running, and Lake Superior shipwrecks. Personal Account.
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
GGRF unlocked. A federal appeals court ruled EPA cannot block roughly $20B in already-awarded GGRF grants based on a policy disagreement. If it stands, this is a major step toward getting long-delayed capital into affordable housing, building retrofits, community solar.
EPA cannot block billions in climate grants, US appeals court rules
A federal appeals court said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot freeze about $20 billion of clean energy grants awarded to several nonprofit groups, handing a defeat to the Trump adminis...
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I first got to know Tina Smith when she was Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, working alongside Gov. Mark Dayton while I was at the McKnight Foundation. None of us expected she’d end up in the U.S. Senate. Looking back, she’s been one of the best senators in Minnesota history.
POLITICO Pro: Q&A: Tina Smith talks IRA, permitting and working with Manchin
The retiring Minnesota Democrat reflects on her legacy pushing for clean energy policies.
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Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a cargo bike and that’s basically the same thing. 🤩 Happy 6th birthday to my Urban Arrow! Hit this milestone last night.
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it
The built environment is not just something we must protect from climate change, it’s one of the most powerful tools we have to both adapt to it and reduce the emissions driving it. Europe Is Burning www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/p...
Europe Is Burning
Hundreds of thousands of people in France and Spain have been forced to evacuate from blazes fueled by soaring temperatures and dry conditions.
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This thread - documenting the rapid growth of a new fire into Spokane, WA today - is terrifying. We’re used to wildfires in the Northwest but what’s happening right now in eastern Washington is not normal.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d agoHoly crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.
Tried to prevent a half-billion people from dying by an airborn virus that killed millions anyway and as a reward getting yelled at by 50 guys with the burner FreedomMectinEnemaWarrior1776 under the threat of perjury.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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If there is no accountability imposed for this kind of shit, not just electorally, but for specific people who are supposed to be civil servants, then we have kinda given up on the idea that we have an institution that is government.
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
10/10 late July day in the DMV. A beautiful day to walk the sunflower fields at McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolsville, MD. @capitalweather.com
This has me a little wistful. I’m an advocate for eleftrification but my dad insisted I learn on manual and it’s all I drove for decades. Hard to hold a phone while driving stick. Maybe we should have focused on transit, bikes, and manual transmission. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
The death of the stick shift is almost here
Driving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, only a few die-hards hold on.
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For anyone that’s seen The Odyssey, wondering if it’s advisable to take a 10-year old? For context, she just finished the unabridged Lord of the Rings trilogy and, with a few girlfriends, covertly watched all five seasons of Stranger Things during the extended snow days earlier this year.
🏃 Arlington is America's fittest city for the 9th straight year, with DC climbing to No. 2. One factor? Air quality. Despite last week's smoke, the region has seen dramatic improvements in air quality over the past several decades. Here's a closer look: www.capitalweather.com/clean-air-he...
Clean air helps keep Arlington and DC near the top of U.S. fitness rankings
Arlington retained its title as America's fittest city, with DC rising to No. 2 in the latest nationwide rankings.
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Fresh air, low dew points. The simple things! Best running conditions of the summer along the Charles River. 🏃♀️#runningsky
Mayors are on the frontlines of tackling affordability, climate, and energy. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at ULI: the goal is to make Boston the best city for families. Housing, lower energy burdens, and resilience to flooding and extreme heat. Buildings account for 70% of Boston’s emissions.
Hard to overstate how angry Canadians are at Trump over these ridiculous tariffs. The United States has emitted the most carbon pollution in world history. It has caused these climate-driven wildfires. Oh and American air pollution routinely drifts into Canada. What utter bullshit.
This pic is one of many that brought waves of anguish this week. A friend’s son was evac’d from his Widji canoe trip in the Boundary Waters after paddling alongside active flames, with ash falling around him, until rescue boats reached the group near midnight. They had to leave their gear behind.
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 3w agoNearly all of Camp Widjiwagan’s legendary fleet of wood canvas canoes is safe, with 19 of them cached underwater in an ancient practice.
Just booked an epic trip in Newfoundland and Labrador for 2027. Can’t wait to give all my hard earned money in Canada. 🇨🇦❤️
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
Honest question - how do the actual damages we are seeing now, in the real world, at around 1.3 C global mean surface temperature rise, compare to estimates at ~1.3 C from the damage functions economists have used in high-profile studies over the last decade or two?
Clean Energy Wire | CLEW@cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 3w agoProductivity losses in June heatwave cost Germany over six billion euros - analysis Industry, healthcare, retail, construction, farming all hit by record temperatures beyond 40C, taking toll on workers' output and boosting cooling demand www.cleanenergywire.org/news/product...
In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoOSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.
You know what doesn't cause apocalyptic skylines and wildfires? Solar panels. Can we stop burning fossil fuels and just start massively investing more in renewables and battery tech, please?
