Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Between Changpeng Zhao and reporting on the Trump Admin trying to force WB to sell to Skydance, today was a bad day for America as a free market economy and a good day for gangster capitalism. 192
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Roselle partner @mfarmer.bsky.social outlines thoughts on DOE's start of a rulemaking process at FERC on large load interconnection. This is MUCH better than the last time the Trump Admin kicked off a rule making process at FERC (in 2017 aimed at keeping piles of coal around) 081
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025So, let's say, save $50k by going to CAVA instead of paying DHS? www.theverge.com/report/78228...theverge.comTrump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealtyTrump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass. 160
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Starbucks-obsessed 4 year old, who has never seen the movie but has suffered through the soundtrack on the rare occasion I get to pick what's on the radio: "can you tell me a cake pop demon hunters story?" 060
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Share it here when you're ready. Definitely need more Approps law scholarship! 010
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025and yet also a large part of recent cost increases is on the distribution side. 130
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Makes sense. Seems like then there is a way to highlight clean energy support while loudly opposing certain energy restrictions. And maybe opens door to characterizing GOP anti-climate obsession (anti-solar/wind) as leading to cost increases for purely ideological reasons (GOP's version of "woke") 010
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025And to be clear, I'm talking about energy/climate qua IRA not opposition to fraking. Though of course that then raises the question of why anti-climate is "good" rather than like Senimas corporatist heterodoxy. Feels like there's just a lot of handwaving on that issue in particular. 000
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025One piece that I'd love to see more discussion here is why "climate" and "energy" have been consistently thrown into the category of helpful to take heterodox positions. They're not social issues (or, I guess if they are that raises the second order question of what is social vs econ). 200
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Very underdeveloped area of academic legal inquiry, imo. Looking forward 020
Reposted by Avi ZevinBrendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Turns out forcing old, uneconomic coal plants to remain online when the operator wanted to retire them is expensive. Keeping Campbell running in MI has cost $29 million over 5 weeks: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...detroitnews.comConsumers Energy spends millions keeping coal plant open per fed orderThe utility expects the cost to be shared by customers in the north and central regions of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator. 613371
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Um... Check my bio. I'm talking about chargers literally at the White House. 010
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025We had such a hard time again like 6 EV chargers. Good luck 381
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Such a doctrinal perspective Madison. It's that the make-up of the Court that created Loper will lead to a different outcome. 040
Reposted by Avi ZevinJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 30/07/2025Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010... 🔌💡kqed.orgWhy Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) | KQEDWe explore the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable. 0449
Reposted by Avi ZevinClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 30/07/2025As someone with several papers cited, I can say that - at least for the sections I know most about - this "report" is full of selectively chosen studies, misrepresentations and half-truths, specious logic, and dated science 0257
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025This report is just a bunch of warmed over 10 years old climate skeptic talking points. bsky.app/profile/blka... 0192
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This is an embarrassment for the sterling reputation all of the real scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy. Shame on Chris Wright. 917843
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Saying otherwise is wrong. And saying otherwise by way of official government regulatory action is contrary to law. 111
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025But, for the record, greenhouse gases significantly contribute to dangerous climate change. Lowering US emissions will be meaningful to Americans and the world, directly and by way of what they mean for technological and international leadership. 121
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025There will be lots of debate today about climate action, and how it affects politics and whether Democrats should remain steadfast in their advocacy for it or instead focus on other things (or perhaps even actively disclaim the importance of action) as a path to political power. 121
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025One final note. The EO speaks of the importance of transmission (and specifically high voltage transmission). This is extremely correct. We need much more for data centers, reliability etc. But it's quite ironic to highlight the importance of high voltage transmission today of all days. 1124
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025One nugget: I think this is the first time a specific threshold is set for the percent of federal $ that triggers NEPA (50%), though many questions remain for how one calculates this (particularly in the context of loans, tax credits, etc). 161
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Both talk about permitting streamlining through tools like categorical exclusions and FAST-41. The Trump EO has more on avoiding ESA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, TSCA. 121
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Both support data centers and also the generation needed to power them. Biden required carbon-free power sources (wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, hydro, CCS) and storage. The Trump EO references nat gas, coal, nuclear, and geothermal (not hydro storage or of course wind or solar) 152
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Both call on agencies to identify financial tools that can encourage buildout of these data centers and power. Though the Biden EO is much more detailed about what authorities DOE can use (particularly on grid) 140
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025A few interesting notes: This EO finally repeals the Biden AI Infrastructure EO issued just days before the end of his term. Many of the concepts in this new EO are similar to what was in the Biden EO, but Wario versions. Both would use DOI DOE and DOD lands for data centers and associated power. 181
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025In addition to the AI Action Plan, a few new AI-related EOs out this evening. The most interesting for energy nerds is the Data Center Infrastructure EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govAccelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center InfrastructureBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and 3115
Reposted by Avi ZevinClaire Wayner @cwayner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025The 2024 transmission build # is out from Grid Strategies and ACEG. Mileage is up, but it's nothing compared to the past. cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u... Yet transmission spending is up. Why? The answer is in my report from last year: rmi.org/insight/mind.... Time to close the gap! #EnergySky 072
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025As a lawyer, you know you're having a bad day when a federal judge uses an exclamation point. As the Executive Branch you SHOULD know you're having a bad day when it's used to tell you to follow the law. 25415
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025My first exposure to electricity regulation/policy was a class I stumbled into while an undergrad at UC Berkeley that Lynch taught. It was fascinating and hooked me (lots of good Grey Davis stories). Though I later learned that she has a VERY different take on electric market regulation that most... 010
Reposted by Avi ZevinAaron Stemplewicz, Esq. @aaronstemp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025David LaCerte nominated to #FERC. #EnergySky 012
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Just another example of how this Administration's "deregulation" and "efficiency" and "permitting reform" narrative is not the real story bsky.app/profile/azev... 1145
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Interior issues new memo in response to anti-wind/solar Executive Order that requires any of 69 types of decisions/actions to go to the Office of the Secretary. This is the way you stall and kill projects. Intentionally red-tape projects to death. 54833
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025this has already been an issue for me on like 3 occasions 110
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025US withdrawal from the IEA because we're mad about modeling assumptions in reports would be extremely shortsighted (and ironic). The IEA coordinates international strategic petroleum withdrawals. Without it, our ability to respond effectively to a global oil shock would be significantly diminished. 1416775
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Since this appears to be gaining a bit of momentum, important to note that NYT has revised bsky.app/profile/kcat... 34103377
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this? 64584011795
Reposted by Avi ZevinRobbie Orvis @robbieorvis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025One of my favorite most outrageous parts of the bill is the $1 BILLION giveaway to metallurgical coal producers in the US, even when that coal is exported. We’re going to subsidize iron and steel in countries like China to compete with U.S.-made steel. There’s your govt waste right there. 08532
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This is extremely true of the energy sections too. A paperwork and regulatory mess for businesses. Any assertion about this Administration's "deregulation" agenda that does not include this new impenetrable web of requirements is missing a key aspect of the story. 2437975
Reposted by Avi Zevinsonia aggarwal @soniaaggarwal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Friday overnight, they added a line to the #OBBA that would send hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to China to subsidize dirty steel. Insane. A subsidy for #coal we mostly export. A subsidy to export coal to China to produce steel for less. Steel they use to compete with America. 32217
Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"There is a way to apply a set of carefully crafted restrictions to wean us off Chinese supply chains, but . . . if we scatter rakes across the floor for companies to step on, they will just throw up their hands and send their investments overseas, leaving us more reliant on China than before."media.tenor.coma red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on itALT: a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it 083
Reposted by Avi ZevinKristina Costa @slashklc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The Senate bill raises the deficit by more than $3 trillion to give tax cuts to the richest people in America. The idea that the difference between slashing $400 billion & $500 billion in job-creating clean energy incentives creates sincere concerns for “Republican fiscal hawks” is beyond laughable. 042
Reposted by Avi ZevinRobbie Orvis @robbieorvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025We’ve got this surging energy demand. Our ability to deploy more stuff that’s not wind, solar and storage is supply-chain-limited. And what Congress wants to do is make it significantly more expensive to build out the stuff we can build www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comGOP tax bill draws flak on energy provisions from some onetime alliesThe GOP’s massive tax and immigration measure slashes federal funding on renewables and clean energy initiatives just as U.S. energy demand soars 1109