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Ben Beachy

@ben-beachy.bsky.social
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Senior Fellow at Global Fund for a New Economy. Previously: White House Climate Policy Office, BlueGreen Alliance, Sierra Club, Public Citizen. Personal account.

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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you'd like a break from doomerism, @mdebolle.com & I had a good time recording this new @piie.com podcast to explore potential paths forward for clean energy industrial policy. We touched on IRA lessons learned, abundance, bottom-up policy design, & yes...bagels. ‎ www.piie.com/experts/podc...
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Can climate efforts create jobs? (Episode 20)
Is it possible to pursue climate efforts, create jobs, and achieve social justice at the same time? That was the challenge that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was designed to meet. Ben Beachy (Gl...
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It's Climate Week in NYC, home of the everything bagel. Time for an everything bagel-themed take on the path forward for climate policy. Check it out: ‎ democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
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Blueprint for a Popular Climate Agenda
The path forward is climate policy written not about impacted workers and communities, but by them.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It's Climate Week. How can the climate community move from dysphoria to action? For a proposed path forward, see my new article below We need a climate agenda that: 1. Cuts costs 2. Expedites clean energy 3. Is written not about workers/communities, but by them democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
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Blueprint for a Popular Climate Agenda
The path forward is climate policy written not about impacted workers and communities, but by them.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Want a blueprint for pivoting from climate rollbacks to a strategic climate offense? That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal. The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
democracyjournal.org
Blueprint for a Popular Climate Agenda
The path forward is climate policy written not about impacted workers and communities, but by them.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
What's the path forward for climate & clean energy policy? Tune in to this symposium tomorrow, where a few of us will offer ideas for what comes next. Livestream link below. Climate panel starts at 11:20am.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If you're in DC and abundance-curious, you might like this panel & happy hour tomorrow evening. We'll discuss policies that would deliver abundance vs. those that would take us backwards, moderated by Claire Jones of the Financial Times. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abundance-...
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today's vote is a gut punch. But it's not over. Our generational task of building a more just, clean energy economy will outlive this political cycle. We'll fight – in the states, courts, & streets. When we win a gov't that reps the majority, we’ll pick up the baton the GOP dropped & keep running.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The "abundance" debate has been long on narrative, but short on precise solutions. What would a data-backed agenda for clean energy abundance look like? In many cases, it'd mean more policy, not less — despite some "abundance" claims. My piece in @heatmap.news offers examples: 🧵
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Despite some "abundance" claims, many clean energy delays point not to an excess of policymaking, but an absence. I lay out a data-backed agenda for clean energy abundance in this new piece for @heatmap.news. In many cases, we need more policy, not less. heatmap.news/ideas/abunda...
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The Energy Transition Needs More Policy, Not Less
In defense of “everything bagel” policymaking.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 02/06/2025
"The data suggests that clean energy growth, union jobs, and equitable investments — like garlic, onion, and sesame seeds — can indeed pair well together," writes @ben-beachy.bsky.social. Why "everything bagel" energy policy is a win-win-win:
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The Energy Transition Needs More Policy, Not Less
In defense of “everything bagel” policymaking.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The Trump admin offers pro-manufacturing pablum while gutting funding for actual manufacturers.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If we asked ChatGPT to outline a cartoonishly cruel spending bill, it'd be hard pressed to do better than this: A dead-of-night vote to offer handouts to the rich by slashing health insurance, increasing energy costs, cutting food aid, and kneecapping a clean energy manufacturing boom.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
America: We want cheap energy. And more manufacturing. And good jobs. House GOP: What if, and hear us out, we got rid of those things but gave some nice tax breaks to the rich? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...
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A Clean Energy Boom Was Just Starting. Now, a Republican Bill Aims to End It.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"I don't think it's hyperbole to say that eviscerating NIOSH, as they have, will cause people to die." Coal miners need black lung screenings, not another empty sales pitch from a politician who doesn't give a shit about them. www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...
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West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Under Trump's new trade framework with the UK, the cheapest Rolls Royce could now sell for as low as $309,000. What a great bargain for the middle class.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In the fight to replace lead pipes, Donald Trump has taken the side of the lead pipes. Trump's new budget proposes a $2.5 billion cut to federal programs that fund clean water.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Remind us again how the Trump admin is supporting manufacturing?
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Claire Moser @clairemoser.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump’s absurd war on clean energy is crushing American manufacturing NEW today from @climatepower.bsky.social: clmtpwr.us/April2025Job...
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Trump Admin wants to eliminate the office that's enabling U.S. manufacturers of steel, cement, & aluminum to cut costs & pollution, boosting industrial competitiveness. Helluva manufacturing agenda you've got there.
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A number of us have suggested the abundance narrative needs precise policy asks to avoid being co-opted by fans of wholesale deregulation. If anyone thought that was silly, Elon Musk would like a word: bsky.app/profile/ben-...
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I just read Abundance. Yes, we need to build faster. To do so, we need to be precise about what causes delays. Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay. For example:🧵
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Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hello Bluesky. I finally made the switch from that other site. Looking forward to your insights and hot takes.
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