Increases in gas prices have become front-of-mind for many Americans, starting broader conversations about the costs of our personal vehicles. Join @nationalacademies.org on July 30 for a discussion of the cost of driving in our changing energy landscape. bit.ly/4uvMwxg

US Wildfire and prescribed burn smoke caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and is associated with 20,000 premature deaths. With the additional wildfires from Canada I'm wondering how much higher this has grown. share.google/CCiE0FzcjmI9...

Socially vulnerable communities face disproportionate exposure and susceptibility to U.S. wildfire and prescribed burn smoke - Communications Earth & Environment

In the United States, wildfire and prescribed burn smoke caused 200 billion dollars in health damages in 2017, with senior citizens bearing 75 percent of the cost, according to an analysis that uses emission inventory data and an integrated assessment model.

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“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”

Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn

Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.

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What can oil-reliant communities learn from the OG oil community, Titusville and the surrounding Oil Region in Pennsylvania?

[Washington Metro Conductor voice] Now entering the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Chris Belasco@someclevername.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Red Line to Pittsburgh lets go

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

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Read chapter Front Matter: The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the cli...

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Energy parks provide an innovative approach to meeting our increasing energy needs, particularly for data centers and advanced manufacturing. Join @nationalacademies.org on 2/12 for a webinar that will look at efforts to create energy parks and the issues they could address. bit.ly/3LOUy3Q

Increasing #energy costs are placing a growing burden on households, businesses, and institutions across the U.S. Explore why energy bills are rising, how impacts differ by region and sector, and solutions to help improve affordability on February 4: https://ow.ly/BU3Z50Y6s6T

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

National Weather Service@nws.noaa.gov · 7mo ago

⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain. A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend. 🧵

The US #electricity system is under stress, from growing demand & complex operating conditions. Join @nationalacademies.org for a webinar series exploring technologies & capabilities for improving reliability and resilience. Our first event on hardening the T&D system is tomorrow! bit.ly/42yNIF5

📢 Submissions are now open for the U.S. Climate Collection, a joint @theAGU + @ametsoc initiative. This special collection will publish U.S.-focused climate assessment science that’s free to read, ensuring rigorous, accessible science informs decisions for years to come. 🔗 buff.ly/1tHUSLC

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

Our new report explores the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. health and welfare. Read more: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2923...

If you want to see what a best-in-class climate scientist with a lens on geopolitics and energy can do in the financial sector - read Sarah Kapnick's new report on energy system politics for JP Morgan. A few of my favorite figures below 🧵1/ www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

Growing connections of AI/DC have now reached a level of complexity warranting a NERC alert, citing "rapid, major swings in load, experienced both in typical operations as well as in response to grid disturbances.” = more data + modeling needed. www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/bpsa/...

So many companies do business in CA, this is a big deal, indeed. Investors can’t manage (at least well) what they cannot manage.

Joshua Basseches@joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a big deal that California is inching forward on this, despite some delays. Especially since a similar federal measure was scrapped entirely.

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

Power price stability and the insurance value of renewable technologies - Nature Energy

Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natura...

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re: cow’s methane-laced burps, viable emissions reduction solutions are scarce. now though, forays into methane destruction - and even atmospheric removal - are gaining traction. i explore one pathway, from Ambient Carbon, here:

How Methane-Zapping Technology Could Finally Solve the Cow Burp Problem

Ambient Carbon is doing the methane equivalent of point source carbon capture in dairy barns.

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Next week begins our @nationalacademies.org 3-part webinar series on greenhouse gas removals! Experts will cover research priorities, governance challenges, and practical applications. Learn more and RSVP here: www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/atm...

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US science research was gutted in 2025. How will it rebuild?

New strategies as diverse as venture capitalism and investments from abroad are emerging to sustain the field

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Nice article about NASEM review of the endangerment finding by @insideclimatenews.org National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science insideclimatenews.org/news/0708202...

It’s a signpost that grid planning + op are entering a new paradigm. System operators are rethinking how to maintain reliability in a BPS where inertia is no longer free and stability must be actively engineered. spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-b...

Grid-Scale Battery Stabilizes Scottish Power Supply

Grid-scale batteries in Scotland are stabilizing power supply with advanced grid-forming inverters.

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Timely:

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · last yr.

A new report from the American Statistical Association reveals that federal statistical agencies—the government offices that collect and publish official data about everything from unemployment rates to immigration patterns—are in serious trouble. www.amstat.org/docs/default...

I love renewable energy tech because it's either "use quantum mechanics and semiconductor physics to leverage the photoelectric effect" or "put three spinny things on a stick"

Nearly half the US will wilt under hot, sticky conditions through the bulk of the week as temperatures and humidity soar from Chicago to NYC and New Orleans, boosting power demand and raising health risks.

Searing Heat Threatens Grids and Health Over Nearly Half the US

Nearly half the US will wilt under hot, sticky conditions through the bulk of the week as temperatures and humidity soar from Chicago to New York City and New Orleans, boosting power demand and raising health risks.

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It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...

New report finds, yet again, that "The United States is failing to build the high-voltage transmission infrastructure needed to support the nation’s surging electricity demand and growing strategic industries."

Report: Fewer New Miles: Strategic Industries Held Back by Slow Pace of Transmission

Today, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) and Grid Strategies released the report “Large-Scale Transmission Deployment Saves Consumers Money.”

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Me in UtilityDive today re: a new $10bn data center announced for NC (the same is true for most states) 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/growing...

When it comes to Texas weather, I look to @theeyewallwx.bsky.social to cut through the nonsense. @mattlanza.bsky.social knows his business on this analysis of the tragic TX flash flooding.

The Eyewall@theeyewallwx.bsky.social · last yr.

The latest on TS Chantal today, but more importantly, we take a deep dive into the causes and forecasts leading up to the horrific flooding tragedy in Texas. A lot to unpack today. open.substack.com/pub/theeyewa...