Balcony #solar coming to #California www.kqed.org/science/2002...

California Officially Legalizes Balcony Solar, Opening the Market to the New Technology | KQED

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to make it simpler for Californians to install plug-in solar panels. Models that meet state standards are expected to be on sale in mid-2027.

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This one's a cri de coeur from @gruberte.bsky.social, @jmijin.bsky.social, and I: The coal sector's decline has created strong empirical evidence about how energy transitions play out, but most decarb scholarship and policymaking ignore it. That has to change. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DJ88Z...

How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It

The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the...

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Disaster relief is often concentrated in the early days after disasters, but the financial stress can last for months or years. In our newest research article, we share findings from in-depth interviews with 20 families impacted by Hurricane Helene: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Households Are Struggling to Recover Financially After Hurricane Helene. Here’s Why.

First-hand accounts from households affected by Hurricane Helene illustrate that postdisaster financial recovery is a long, uncertain process.

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A very cool new thing from @cplusc.bsky.social: a toolkit to help communities negotiate the best possible community benefit agreements. cbatoolkit.climateandcommunity.org

Breaking: Amid California's climate-driven wildfire crisis, the state on Wednesday approved long-delayed Zone Zero rules designed to protect homes from conflagrations but they’re less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

California Adopts Weaker Home Protection Rules as Wildfires Grow

Scientists and firefighters recommended property owners create non-combustible zones five feet from a structure, but a state board’s new rules say the area can be as small as one foot.

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Shared some thoughts about the multi-district litigation against social media companies kicking off this week: "courts have finally started to scale back their deference to the industry and to treat their broad claims of immunity with increasing skepticism.” www.techpolicy.press/four-states-...

Four States Take Meta to Trial in California, the Latest Front in Sprawling Multidistrict Fight

Opening statements will be heard this week in a trial in Oakland, California, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Varsha Bansal.

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Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...

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By altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing. n.pr/4wCwMd9

Environmental groups sue government to stop a big change to the Endangered Species Act

By altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing.

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Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

IUCN "inventory designed to synthesise a repository of ecosystem assessments from different sources, including national, sub-national & regional datasets, & to link users with source material that w/help inform necessary ecosystem conservation decisions" iucn.org/red-list-eco... Habitat biodiversity

Red List of Ecosystems Inventory

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Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say reut.rs/4wcggQZ

Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say

The record-breaking heatwave engulfing Western Europe would have been "virtually ‌impossible" without human-caused climate change, which has made this week's soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, scientists said on Friday.

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Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world’s largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember. In this video, Carbon Brief’s @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org reports on Ember’s analysis. Read the full report here ➡️ buff.ly/XtaYP1D

Excited to share our @annualreviews.bsky.social article, “The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World," with @guygrossman.bsky.social and Audrey Sacks: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... It’s been amazing to watch this area of research grow so much in recent years. Let’s keep it up!

The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World

Climate change politics in the developing world remains understudied, despite the region's acute vulnerability and centrality to climate futures. This article synthesizes emerging research across...

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Publication alert! 🔔 My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ... 1/n 🧵

Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings

How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...

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New: the Iran war is driving up gasoline and diesel prices, already costing American households $130 each (on avg), a total of $17 billion -- and it's rising fast. Imagine if we'd spent that on clean energy instead? Check out our real-time updating Iran War Energy Cost Tracker

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

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Such a pleasure to be back at Brown @climatesollab.bsky.social to talk about my book on geothermal development and global clean energy governance. Big thank you to @climatesollab.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social for inviting me!

Climate Solutions Lab@climatesollab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us this Friday as we welcome back CSL-affiliate Kathryn Chelminski to Watson for her talk on Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines. 📅 Friday, April 3th, 1-2pm EST events.brown.edu/climate-solu...

Great to see new books by CSL members @jenniferhadden.bsky.social and @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social on display at ISA2026! (And hat tip to Jen's co-author @sarahbush.bsky.social )

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season

The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.

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Anthropic’s report on the theoretical labor market risk posed by #AI and #LLM across sectors finds that computer programmers are the most exposed professions. Social science is not the *most* exposed but definitely not buffered…

New article by CSL-affiliate Kathryn Chelminski, check it out!

Kathryn Chelminski@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new article— co-authored w/Guixing Wei & @gbellocca.bsky.social — on ZIP code-level power outages across communities in Seattle and Portland is out in Energy Policy! This research has important equity implications👇 💡🔌 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Our new article— co-authored w/Guixing Wei & @gbellocca.bsky.social — on ZIP code-level power outages across communities in Seattle and Portland is out in Energy Policy! This research has important equity implications👇 💡🔌 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Bias in ChatGPT?! Unfortunately, not at all shocking, even if the results are… very important findings. Original article in Platforms & Society below 👇 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Column | See ChatGPT’s hidden bias about your state or city

Researchers uncovered hidden biases in ChatGPT’s assessment of people from different places. See how the chatbot ranked your city, state or country.

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“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

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I spoke with Dr. Miranda Melcher on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast about my book with CUP: Governance of Energy Transitions, #geothermal development in #Indonesia and the #Philippines, & more! Listen to the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/governing-en... 💡🔌 #energysky

Glad to see a more balanced take on the Zillow climate risk story than most commentary, which simply wants a return to black-box models for individual use. As @madisoncondon.bsky.social wrote, "There needs to be a broader institutional solution to this problem." www.linkedin.com/posts/madiso...

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 10mo ago

People trying to sell you houses at high prices don't want you to know about their climate risks (or other inconvenient numbers). Buyer beware. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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In a country as wealthy as the US, this is a choice map.feedingamerica.org

Hunger & Poverty in the United States | Map the Meal Gap

The food insecurity rate in the United States was 14.3% in 2023. Explore a map of hunger statistics in the United States at the state and local level.

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As millions of families face losing access to #SNAP benefits across the country tomorrow, reminder to donate to your local #foodbank or #foodpantry where you can: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... This community fridge map is a great resource of free, community fridges: www.mutualaidhub.org.