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Carter Smith

@carterfielden.bsky.social
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Federal Energy Regulatory Attorney & Carbon Balancing Enthusiast via TLH, SEA, UVA, J&B, EPA & GULC. Views mine.

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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You’re in luck
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
💡💡💡 Check out Part 1 of my new series w/ Wil Burns on scaling #CDR through a #CTBO And keep an eye out for Parts 2 & 3 in coming days! illuminem.com/illuminemvoi...
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Is climate change like diabetes? My latest essay explores that question through The Language of Climate Politics by @doctorvive.bsky.social, and it engages her ongoing debate with ecomodernist thinkers like Ted Nordhaus. I hope it gets you thinking. open.substack.com/pub/carbonre...
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The Case for Carbon Recovery
How people talk about climate change matters a ton.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Our heads are buried in the sand, and our leaders keep digging deeper holes. In protest of EPA’s hearings on the GHG endangerment finding this week, have a listen to Watch It Fall by @billystrings.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=y97g...
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Billy Strings - Watch It Fall (Official Video)
YouTube video by Billy Strings
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Some personal news. Would appreciate all the LinkedIn luv I can get. Eventually, I’ll need another real job 🥳
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Climate scientists deserve a collective noun (esp. for groups of more than a few outliers). I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists. ChatGPT says it’s available. Any better options?
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Noah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I wrote an article about the policy irrelevance of the social cost of carbon in the hopes of prompting an uncomfortable conversation about the future use of the metric. So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵 revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...
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A Fresh Look at Climate [In]Justice (and Trump 2.0) with Cass Sunstein
I hope you’ll listen to, and share, this conversation on climate policy in the age of Trump (and lots more) with the wide-ranging Harvard economist Cass Sunstein. Sunstein worked under two presidents ...
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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 12/08/2025
The future benefits of abatement exceed present costs, yes. But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
An oldie but a goodie. Originally presented for an @rff.org forum, long before webinars. "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth Boulding. arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/thoc...
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sorry folks, I've been slacking on my #BMFS evangelism. I kid you not, this song brought tears to my eyes the last time I saw them in Charlottesville. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoz...
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Billy Strings - Feb. 14, 2020 - She Makes My Love Come Rolling Down - Asheville, NC
YouTube video by romulan42
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This forefront of climate reform could be a new source of hope for the climate movement, Especially in light of EPA’s trajectory on GHGs
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Biden-era, industrial policy-heavy approach to #climate mitigation overtly relies on the expansion of #EPA authority over GHGs. Untangling the endangerment rescission will take years, in the off-chance #SCOTUS abstains. This is an inflection point for US climate policy.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Anyone have their hands on EPA’s proposed endangerment rule yet?
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Climate advocates need to think several steps ahead and strategize. I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs. Here's why: 🧵
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 24/07/2025
The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.
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Trump’s EPA delays rules requiring toxic coal ash cleanup
The agency’s move to extend compliance deadlines for “legacy” coal ash dumps is the latest in a string of Trump admin attacks on environmental regulations.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Before misinterpreting the breadth of the #SCOTUS prohibition on “universal” injunctions, Take note of ACB’s fn 1. This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all “Nationwide” injunctions.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If Trump can change his mind about fighting foreign wars, maybe he’ll come around on climate change too.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We will soon face a massive 2008-level crisis that will stem from homes that can no longer be sold because climate change has made them uninsurable.
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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
👇🏽This is really wild . An actual climate change clarion call
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
EPA & Trump exempted the 7 coal units claiming technology to meet the safer pollution limit is “not available,” even though the units have electrostatic precipitators, baghouses, and/or wet scrubbers that have met the limit. The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Rory showed resilience this week in a way I’ve never seen at a Masters. Truly inspirational.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐 This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners. 🧵 digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
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Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Economists today are feeling a little like climate scientists for the last 30 years. Not a fun club.
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Llewellyn 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I love microbes.🤩 A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks. The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Microbes can capture carbon and degrade plastic — why aren’t we using them more?
Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and clean up pollution — in ways that are economically viable and safe.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
About to crack open this bad boy, @paulkelleher.net!
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is what MAGA is doing to big law firms because they want to kneecap the judiciary
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐 This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners. 🧵 digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu
Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Discussing my recent article with ChatGPT is blowing my mind, and I think it has implications for legal writing and scholarship. Lots of talk about simplifying legal writing lately. Yes, simple writing is critical for advocacy. 🧵
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Been seeing a lot of content like this recently. This debate can’t be 1-sided. AI could improve learning. Perhaps teachers need to rethink their curriculum and means of assessment. Require in-person written work. Or, have students create a record of learning via chatbot. AIs often lack nuance.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Check out ChatGPT's ~800 word analysis of the climate policy framework from my new article. chatgpt.com/canvas/share... Kinda wild ChatGPT estimated the likelihood that Ronald Coase and Arthur Pigou would favor my proposal (vs other policies) at: 75% (Coase) & 90% (Pigou) 🔌💡
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Check out ChatGPT's ~800 word analysis of the climate policy framework from my new article. chatgpt.com/canvas/share... Kinda wild ChatGPT estimated the likelihood that Ronald Coase and Arthur Pigou would favor my proposal (vs other policies) at: 75% (Coase) & 90% (Pigou) 🔌💡
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Probably had too much fun with this 😂 @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, Grok is oddly fixated on your Tahoe. I meant no disrespect.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hey #climatesky! If you start reading my new article on reorienting climate law and economics, RIGHT NOW, you just might finish it by dinner 😅 Think about it! Then maybe come back here and argue digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
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Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Is it too naive to think new market-based climate legislation might replace the regulatory vacuum left by Zel-dickhead’s EPA? 🧵
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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Former Republican EPA leaders speak out: "What this administration is doing is endangering all of our lives."-Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under G.W. Bush. An "evisceration of environmental laws."-William Reilly EPA administrator under G.H.W. Bush. www.newsweek.com/epa-environm...
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EPA leaders from both parties blast Trump's environmental "evisceration"
Officials who led the EPA under three past presidents said the current administration is threatening both environmental protection and economic growth.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A key premise of my new article is that bipartisan legislation must remain the ultimate goal of US climate reform. The rollbacks announced yesterday by EPA Administrator Zeldin verify this premise is valid. But bipartisanship requires compromise, which means there's more work to do 1/
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A key premise of my new article is that bipartisan legislation must remain the ultimate goal of US climate reform. The rollbacks announced yesterday by EPA Administrator Zeldin verify this premise is valid. But bipartisanship requires compromise, which means there's more work to do 1/
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Promising development for illegally terminated federal workers, like me www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Federal government lawyers defend mass firings at Maryland court hearing
A hearing in federal court will help determine whether a temporary restraining order is put in place to block the mass firings of federal workers.
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Federal Worker Rights @fedworkerrights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thank you to the Boston Globe for this story about a class representative in the MSPB class action for employees of the Department of Interior
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The first lesson of Whiggism was "the legislature must control the power of the purse." The first lesson of classical market liberalism was "trade wars are bad." The lesson of the first crisis of the 1787 American constitution was "the Alien and Sedition Acts are bad."
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Trump EO on independent agencies crosses several lines despite ostensibly being couched in separation of powers principles. Loper Bright reaffirmed judges get the last word interpreting law. With Chevron gone and without authority to remove independent agency heads, the EO has no bite.
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 29/01/2025
Super functional times we are living in where the FBI is still calling me to reference check students with revoked offers
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
“Last year, Burt [who saw the 2008 mortgage crisis coming] warned that 17 million US homes, representing nearly 19% of total housing, were underinsured against damage from floods and wildfires alone.” #climatesky #energysky www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The $2 Trillion Home Insurance Nightmare Is Getting Even Worse
Parts of the country most susceptible to natural disasters are slowly waking up to an underinsurance crisis stoked by climate change.
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Carter Smith @carterfielden.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Peace be with you, Mr. President.
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Kyle Davis @kyledavis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
🔌💡An interesting reading list from Thomas Hochman on "core reading on [US] permitting reform". I need to work through these in 2025, as we work to resurrect federal permitting reform legislation within the new 119th US Congress. greentapeblog.substack.com/p/core-readi...
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Core Readings on Permitting Reform
Famously ranked #5 on Tyler Cowen's "Tuesday Assorted Links"
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