Check out CSL Director Jeff Colgan's interview with CNN on how the Iran War is raising energy costs for consumers! @cnn.com @jeffcolgan.bsky.social
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Creating, learning and distributing solution-oriented climate knowledge at Brown University and across the world.
"As consumers, Americans are paying higher prices [for] gasoline and diesel," says CSL Director Jeff Colgan in this recent Financial Times article. High costs are impacting Trump's popularity ahead of the midterms. www.ft.com/content/6972...
Donald Trump summons US refiners as Iran war pushes up fuel prices
President to hold White House meeting on Tuesday as high living costs sap his popularity ahead of midterm elections
ft.com
Americans have had to pay an extra $95 BILLION for gasoline and diesel since President Trump decided to attack Iran on February 28, 2026. A war that hurts the global economy, undermines US power, creates hardship for working class, and helps the Iranian regime stay.🛢️🇺🇸 iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Hi @gavinnewsom.bsky.social! Do you really want your legacy to be taking money away from school kids for air conditioning during heat waves to hand it to a fossil fuel company that made $1.8 billion in profit last year? Extend CalSHAPE. Cool the schools. It’s really not that complicated.
I am on the environmental politics committee and also happy to chat at APSA!
Andrew Trexler@atrexler.com · last wk.UW-Madison Poli Sci has THREE searches for TT assistant professors: Environmental politics: go.wisc.edu/1gk366 Chinese politics: go.wisc.edu/847082 American political thought: go.wisc.edu/lfwg6o I am not on any of the search committees, but happy to chat about the dept/UW/Madison/etc at APSA!
Big congratulations to @sarahcolbourn.bsky.social for receiving the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award recognizes Sarah for her amazing work in the course 'Politics of Climate Change.' Well deserved, Sarah! 🎊
Wow. "25 of the 38 organizations (66%) supporting Exxon and Suncor have documented financial ties to fossil fuel defendants, the broader fossil fuel industry, or climate denial foundations and dark-money networks" consumerwatchdog.org/energy/new-r...
New Report Exposes Fossil Fuel-Backed Network Flooding Supreme Court with Briefs Seeking to Shield Oil & Gas Companies in Climate Deception Case
Investigation identifies coordinated fossil fuel funding behind most industry-supporting briefs and raises new questions about Justice Samuel Alito's…
consumerwatchdog.org
This summer's heat has drawn attention to the impact of climate change on the home insurance market. Less clear is if individuals experiencing these changes change their opinions or behaviors in response. I investigate in a new working paper (osf.io/preprints/so... : (1/n)
7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Stand Up a National Climate Service
Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.
rooseveltinstitute.org
Pleased to be cited in @theguardian.com Editorial on what the state's role should be in India's green growth: "The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial
Editorial: The world’s most populous country needs state-generated demand to industrialise, decarbonise and avoid China’s overcapacity trap
theguardian.com
Hard not to see the cancellation of 3 high-transmission electricity corridors, at a time when USA desperately needs more electricity supply, as an idiotic own-goal. 🌍🔌 (Hegemonic suicide, as @sbmitche.bsky.social @thunen.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social would say)
Energy Secretary Announces Cancellation of Three Proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will not move forward with designating the three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors previous...
energy.gov
NEW: A record 29% cars sold globally this year will be electric Meanwhile... China is exporting more E.V.s than the U.S. exports cars of any kind Latest w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social → www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Lucky the Voinovich School is a Project ECHO Hub, enabling us to offer Building Resilience for Older Adults in a Changing Environment. Series starts in Sept and will help unpack the new challenges (and opportunities) in building resilience in an older and warmer world www.ohio.edu/news/2026/08...
Helping state’s older adults deal with extreme weather the focus of latest free Project ECHO seminars hosted by OHIO’s Voinovich School
How Ohio’s rapidly aging population can better cope with heat waves, flooding and increasingly severe storms is the subject of a new six-part Project ECHO webinar series starting in September.
ohio.edu
The #SustainableED team's first publication is out in @pnas.org. We document the scale of potential pollutant & carcinogen exposure across US K12 schools. 8% of all schools are within a few blocks of EPA registered hazard sites. Exposure risk is highly inequitable. 🧵
The Guardian featured the CSL Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in its newsletter on the impact of Trump's Iran policies on rising costs for Americans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
First Thing: Soaring oil profits from US-Iran conflict drive calls for windfall tax
Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump’s policies raise costs for Americans
theguardian.com
CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to Huffpost about CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker and how much the war is costing American households. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
‘It Hits A Nerve’: This Number Reveals How Much Americans Are Paying For Trump’s War With Iran
The Trump administration’s invasion of Iran has cost the typical U.S. household several hundred dollars in added fuel costs. The tab grows every day.
huffpost.com
Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.
CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to the FT about the ongoing fossil fuel costs of the Iran war. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
US diesel prices overtake Biden-era average in blow to Trump
Cost for fuel that powers industrial America set to remain elevated even as crude falls
giftarticle.ft.com
Solar output in the UK recorded an all-time high in July, reaching 3.2 TWh. 33% higher than July last year. Accelerating solar deployment coincided with a historically sunny month to produce this record. Solar power is delivering when heatwaves are at their worst.
¿Los peores años de la lucha por el clima? Trump es un problema, pero las guerras de Ucrania e Irán impulsan las renovables
¿Los peores años de la lucha por el clima? Trump es un problema, pero las guerras de Ucrania e Irán impulsan las renovables
elperiodico.com
"Mother of all risks": the scale of climate-related disruption to supply chains is being underestimated as global warming pushes the planet to the brink of environmental tipping points, according to Singapore’s former central bank chief www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate Is ‘Mother of’ Supply Chain Risks, Ex-Bank Chief Says
The scale of climate-related disruption to supply chains is being underestimated as global warming pushes the planet to the brink of environmental tipping points, according to Ravi Menon, Singapore’s ...
bloomberg.com
New research in @nature.com Scientific Data, with contributions from IBES & DEEPS Prof Laurence C. Smith 💡 Explore data from NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which sought to understand environmental changes in arctic & boreal regions using a Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor:
The NASA ABoVE Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor full waveform LiDAR airborne surveys - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The NASA ABoVE Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor full waveform LiDAR airborne surveys
nature.com
The unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?
Walmart Leapfrogs EV Charging Competitors With Rapid Buildout
In a matter of months, the retailer has become a major player in the business of fueling electric cars.
bloomberg.com
Imperial violence by armed petrostates (Russia, US) has created their own worst nightmare, a world racing to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster The Dawn of the Electric world order Ukrainians, Houthis and Iranians have been the armed wing of the Green new deal open.spotify.com/episode/0ESb...
BREAKING: Electrification Action Plan dropped. The EU just committed to doubling electrification: 46% of final energy consumption by 2040, up from 23% today, where it has sat for a decade. My rapid response analysis of the Electrification Action Plan: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040
The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.
open.substack.com
New survey research released today with @mattomildenberger.bsky.social -- a response to the "don't say climate change" crowd. Many have observed that climate change has moved down voters' list of priorities and have concluded that pro-climate policies would cost votes. That's testable! 🧵[1/13]
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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If you work in message testing or persuasive communication, this may be the most importantly paper you will read this month, perhaps all year. From @carnes.bsky.social and Henderson in @bjpols.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
