There's not really a scarcity of "good farmland." There's a scarcity of good farming. But that's a difficult conversation! And NIMBY environmentalism? That's easy. "Nooo don't build on the field that I don't own, but still somehow consider mine to dictate what should be done with it."

30 minutes (12 ET 30 July)! Come for the hot takes on fossil phase-out, stay to see if you can distinguish between me and my Halloween decorations in a picture of me doing lead remediation

Institute for Energy and the Environment@iee-vermontlaw.bsky.social · 6d ago

For two weeks, the Institute has been delighted to host @gruberte.bsky.social as Vermont Law and Graduate School's 2026 Energy Law Distinguished Scholar. Today, Emily delivers her Hot Topics lecture on coordinating the fossil fuel phase out. Please join us. www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-to...

Come on by (virtually) for my talk at 12 ET!

Institute for Energy and the Environment@iee-vermontlaw.bsky.social · 6d ago

For two weeks, the Institute has been delighted to host @gruberte.bsky.social as Vermont Law and Graduate School's 2026 Energy Law Distinguished Scholar. Today, Emily delivers her Hot Topics lecture on coordinating the fossil fuel phase out. Please join us. www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-to...

lol I've been buying direct air capture (with a 4 to 6 year lead time) since 2019 and I just got an email that I basically read as "check out this cool opportunity to not get what you paid for because we can't make these volumes / our other contracts are cutting you in line"

"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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The unacceptable behavior may not have been designed or intended, but you're still responsible for it. Nothing's an "accident" in the sense that you can throw up your hands and walk away.

Sarah exemplified our belief that rigorous, creative social science research matters. She undertook that research with incredible flair. To keep her legacy alive, we have created the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship for Energy Research. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.

Here's the proposal from @aldasky.bsky.social, Maddison Wells, and myself on how we can eliminate housing and energy insecurity immediately for millions of people while also driving deep residential decarbonization for the climate. It's win-win-win policy for people, planet, and faith in government.

Toward Housing as a Human Right: Eliminate Extreme Housing and Energy Insecurity with a Safe Housing Foundation

The Problem Most Americans living in deep housing insecurity are renters, unhoused, or precariously housed. Only one quarter of households eligible for a Housing Choice Voucher are able to get one; th...

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Hm it's like NSF forgot they terminated my research funding on literally this topic a year ago because it "no longer met agency priorities" 🤔

Riffing on @emilygrube.bsky.social's new journal letter here bsky.app/profile/grub..., I proceed to yell at energy and climate modelers in NN#7 and implore them to do better. www.transitiontimes.net/nn-7-a-new-c...

NN#7: A New Climate Catechism

It’s time for energy and climate modelers to start trying to tell the world what’s likely to happen, and show them how to phase out fossil fuels completely.

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Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 2w ago

In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily

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And guess what? Focusing on the welfare of your imaginary friends and away from the harm to actual people (and our environment, thus all living things) done in the process of building them is not improving that track record. >>

my most conspiracy theory take is that rental car companies are trying to make Americans hate EVs. This is many people’s first experience of one. Today in my long list of travails: rented a Prius (not an EV!) for a sensible family remote-ish road trip. Got to my rental car: bright red f150 lightning

Me: Why am I cranky? The air:

happy 50th anniversary to the last cooler-than-preindustrial year

i'm sorry to be such an AI poaster lately but i feel incredibly, incredibly violated by the fact that at least Gemini is willing to write a paper "as Emily Grubert" with literally no compunction. ~2 years ago most of the LLMs refused to do this. I check periodically so I know what to worry about.

Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · last mo.

Like I’ve had multiple exciting conversations about a project that end with “amazing I’m looking forward to talking with Claude about this” and it makes me want to work exclusively alone forever so I am *sure* about chain of ideas

i'm doing literature review work (ie posting in despair) and the number of meaningful typos and just absolute garbage out there *that nonetheless obtains the shine of peer review* and PREDATES AI is really making me very excited for 10 years from now when no one knows how to read

tag urself i'm the omnipotent sun

Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here's just some light reading from the abstract of a paper that has been cited 39 times, not negatively: "The proposed road-map for the future is to continue to use the Fossil Fuels as usual. The ultimate driver of the Earth’s climate is the omnipotent Sun, not humans."

Here's just some light reading from the abstract of a paper that has been cited 39 times, not negatively: "The proposed road-map for the future is to continue to use the Fossil Fuels as usual. The ultimate driver of the Earth’s climate is the omnipotent Sun, not humans."

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

Join us! I’m EiC of a partner journal (environmental research: energy) and am delighted to give my time to a society-owned, ethical publisher

IOPP Environment and Energy@iopp-environment.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 Become our next Editor-in-Chief for Environmental Research Communications! #ERC 🌱 🔗 Read more and apply here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/2515... 🗓️ Application deadline: 31 August 2026 #Environment #Editorialboard #Environmentalresearch #Environmentalscience

📢 Become our next Editor-in-Chief for Environmental Research Communications! #ERC 🌱 🔗 Read more and apply here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/2515... 🗓️ Application deadline: 31 August 2026 #Environment #Editorialboard #Environmentalresearch #Environmentalscience

YOU GUYS HE'S BACK he is warming up this is not a drill (the concert is more or less directly across the street from my house) should I bring my Elvis tribute Barbie that was the only Barbie I was allowed to have as a child (because I loved Elvis that much)

Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 2y ago

The guy doing my town's Monday night park concert was billed as "the Elvis experience" and I am genuinely thrilled to announce that this means he is covering other bands AS ELVIS. If you didn't know you needed an Elvis cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," now you do. (Thank you, thankyouvermuch)

It is not possible to unlink these things and say "well the energy system, what has that got to do with trans people" without a level of dehumanizing compartmentalization that i refuse to do and refuse to accept from others.

Idaho's governor just banned trans people from public bathrooms and enacted new Medicare work requirements. Utah's governor banned medical care for trans youth. This is a 'bipartisan' effort on energy from politicians who want to eliminate many of us from public and private life altogether.

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · last mo.

Yippee, a bipartisan "superabundance" energy plan from Western governors that ignores climate change.

A really unpleasant professional anxiety that I’ve just realized I have is that I don‘t know how to think about collaborations now that I’m so mismatched with peers on acceptable AI use. I expected this problem with students but I’m shocked at how everyone in their 40s/50s is just casually using it

I feel like I exist on a completely different planet to the planet these conversations are taking place on. I feel both speechless and like I need to write 449,000 words, simultaneously I want to never speak or write again, and I also want to do a 7 minute sustained scream. I'm flipping OUT

I'll never forgive the ai freaks for making it so hot outside.

FT Exclusive: The International Energy Agency has forecast US-based spending on power plants fuelled by coal and gas will reach $50bn this year, as companies rush to build out data centres. ft.trib.al/aakY0J7