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Ayn Craciun

@ayncraciun.bsky.social
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Breaking eggs + making omelettes for #climateaction in #OC @sdclimateaction. Former Irvine Sustainability Commission Chair (elected 2X). Opinions are my own. @ayncraciun.bsky.social

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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Big week for clean air. 🙌 Federal appeals courts upheld: ✅ Southern California's landmark clean air standards for boilers and water heaters ✅ New York's authority to reduce pollution from buildings
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The electrification movement is cooking with gas
California’s push to electrify appliances got a major boost from two federal courts.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The only real protection from volatile gas prices? Use less oil. That’s exactly what CA’s cap-and-invest program is designed to do, while funding clean air, wildfire prevention & lower energy costs. @AirResources #CALeg calmatters.org/commentary/2...
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Opinion | The solution to high gas prices is using less oil, not delaying California’s climate programs
Climate programs cause smaller costs in California's gas prices, but the limited supply routes and a highly concentrated refining market cause bigger price boosts.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/04/2026
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
An AI-generated flood of comments—some of which were fake—killed clean air rules in SoCal last year. Community leaders are calling on @robbonta and LA Dist Atty Hochman to investigate this manipulation of the democratic process. www.latimes.com/environment/... 1/2
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
An AI-generated flood of comments—some of which were fake—killed clean air rules in SoCal that would have expanded pollution-free heat pumps. This manipulation of the public process is "deeply disturbing" and undermines legitimate democratic participation. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Today we rallied at SCAQMD to ask the board to clean up industrial pollution in 2026. Why? Bc air in the South Coast region is still the dirtiest in the nation 😱. 17 million people are paying the price. Industrial boilers are a major cause. Learn more: www.californiacleanmanufacturing.com
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The @californiapuc.bsky.social will SOON decide whether to force CA families to pay for higher utility profits. In March, Asm. Petrie-Norris led a 🔥letter signed by 38 lawmakers🔥 urging CPUC to reject this request. Thank you, lawmakers, for fighting for us. #CALeg www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The CPUC Must Protect Ratepayers, Not Shareholders California families are paying record-high energy bills while monopoly utilities rake in record profits — and now they want even bigger guaranteed returns, straight from your monthly bill. 1/2
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Georgia voters just fired utility regulators over high bills and weak oversight in a race The NY Times calls a referendum on rising electric bills and a bellwether for next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
93% of CA voters agree that utilities should not charge customers for wasteful spending, including lobbying, PR, and marketing campaigns. AB 1167 & SB 24 deliver commonsense guardrails to protect customers. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, sign these bills into law! energyandpolicy.org/california-l...
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California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending
State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.
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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 16/08/2025
How Newsom's California redistricting affects OC & Irvine: CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC: CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 30/07/2025
Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010... 🔌💡
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Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) | KQED
We explore the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable.
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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 04/06/2025
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany: "Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us at the Rally for Clean Air on June 6 in Diamond Bar, CA. SoCal suffers some of the worst air quality in the US, and a major contributor is gas appliances used for space and water heating in our homes. Luckily, upcoming healthy air standards can change that. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Rally for Clean Air - Our Health Can't Wait! · Mobilize
Everyone deserves clean, safe air at home. But SoCal families are stuck breathing some of the dirtiest air in the country, causing asthma, illness, and even early death. This doesn't have to be our r...
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Every OC resident should be proud and grateful to Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Chair Cottie Petrie-Norris for this letter she and others signed and sent to the CPUC this week, urging regulators to “push back firmly” on utility profits at ratepayer expense. 1/3
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Irvine will talk about its lackluster & years-delayed climate plan tonight. They’re also planning to leave OC’s only clean energy agency. 🙄 Sigh. This slide shows some of the problems with that. 1. SCE’s basic product is much dirtier than OCPA’s 2. SCE’s “green rate” product is. Not. Available.
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Indivisible South Orange County @indivisiblesouthoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The next Ladera Ranch Civic Council meeting is focused on the school board! Lisa Zollinger and Judy Bullockus (CUSD school board trustees) will be given most of the meeting time. If you are a concerned member in our community, this would be a good place for you to voice your concerns.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This school board member is VERY comfortable using the n- word. She also doesn’t believe humans have anything to do with climate change. She must resign.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday. His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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GreenEngineer @eubanksengineeringresearch.com · 13/03/2025
• Tax billionaires into millionaires • End Congressional lobbying & insider trading • Reform SCOTUS • Overturn Citizens United • Rebuild what MAGA broke • Universal healthcare • Equal Rights Amendment • Stop climate change • NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS • NO KINGS IN AMERICA #ReconstructionDemocrats
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Brave leadership from these young people.👏👏👏 Also, 1989 called and it wants Mayor Agran to try something new on climate. Talking about climate action while also leading efforts to try to destroy the local clean power agency is next level LOL, as the kids say. (1/4) www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
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Climate activists chant 'Stay in OCPA' in disrupting Irvine mayor's speech
With the future of the Orange County Power Authority in Irvine uncertain, activists drowned out Irvine Mayor Larry Agran's address to urge the city not to withdraw from the green power agency.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2025
Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.” Russia:
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s time to stop allowing monopoly utilities to buy political influence to enable their spiraling rate increases. This is violence against every California family. Yes to AB 884 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/02/i...
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Investor-owned utilities are buying influence in Sacramento—AB 884 will stop them
It’s time to end the corruption. It’s time to ban IOU political contributions. And it’s time for voters to demand politicians who won’t sell them out.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is why we fight. Well said @sciencemoms.bsky.social.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Yay! We received our electronic ballot verifications in the mail today!!! We signed in and EASILY voted electronically for this marvelous progressive slate for #ADEM for California Assembly District 73. This district covers #CostaMesa #Irvine and parts or #Tustin
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For those of you who are registered Democrats in #Irvine #CostaMesa #Tustin #AD73 please vote for these super progressives for #ADEM. Registration ends on 1/31. I wish I could tell you how hard they have worked in our Democratic Party Club to keep our area blue! @demsofirvine.bsky.social
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Truth Will Reign 👑 @truthwill-reign.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy Donald Trump sentencing day for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star - to those who celebrate.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
SoCalGas has paid UC Irvine $2.5M to greenwash gas industry projects like gas/hydrogen blending. This is climate arson. @ucirvine.bsky.social
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Insightful article from Paul Mitchell of Political Data Intelligence (PDI) on the *constitutional* and legal reasons that Irvine’s upcoming special election MUST be city-wide, not limited to the 5th district. Irvine residents deserve full representation. Full 🛑. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Back to the Future gave everyone unrealistic expectations about the potential for banana peels to decarbonize transportation.
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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Regulated Utility: puts a full cup in rate base
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
UC Irvine & the gas industry are pushing a risky on-campus hydrogen blending experiment that threatens student & faculty health & safety & undermines climate goals. Tomorrow, Nov. 21 at 3pm, join this objective discussion of the proposal. Details @ www.climateactioncampaign.org/uci
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Chris Caldwell @chris-caldwell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you needed an excuse to have a Guinness over the festive period, here it is!
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Forbes: Lifetime Cost Of Small Car $689,000; Society Subsidizes This Ownership With $275,000
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Lifetime Cost Of Small Car $689,000; Society Subsidizes This Ownership With $275,000
New academic research has calculated that the lifetime cost of a small car—such as an Opel Corsa—is about $689,000, of which society pays $275,000.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
An accident is an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause. Many OC streets are designed for unsafe freeway speeds that predictably cause events like this one and worse with frequency. Not an accident.
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Major crash blocks intersection in Irvine
The Irvine Police Department was investigating a major traffic collision Friday that shut down lanes.
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Parking & lot size minimums drive up housing prices. A lot. You’d think “free market” enthusiasts would be lining up to let property owners decide how much parking they need for themselves. But no. 🙄 Fab video explainer 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fls...
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How the US made affordable homes illegal
The rules that keep American housing expensive.Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjOOver the past year,...
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Ayn Craciun @ayncraciun.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Here at Laguna Beach city hall to join residents and partner orgs (👇) speaking in support of clean energy choice for Laguna Beach families thru the OC Power Authority. 🌏⚡️🤞 @OC_Climate @ccl_oc @CarbnCollective @SurfriderSOC @TomOsborne1850 @sdclimateaction
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