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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great news! 🎉 Following the federal government’s attempt to stop the youth and NGO-led climate accountability case from proceeding, the court has sided with litigants, finding no legal or factual basis to throw out the case. Onward. Support youth climate litigants now ecojustice.ca/take-action/...
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Read more on how CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker compares to other estimates: www.aei.org/commentary/t...
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Noah Zucker @noahzucker.com · 23/09/2026
🚨 Workforces exposed to globalization and decarbonization are often overwhelmingly male. New article at @ajpseditor.bsky.social with @rickyclark.bsky.social and @rkhoban.bsky.social asks how layoffs of these men shape voting: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
AJPS article: "Breadwinner Backlash." Abstract: Low-skilled men have long been vulnerable to globalization, decarbonization, and other forms of economic disruption. When shocks are realized, women often increase their paid labor to compensate for men's loss of income. We study how layoffs of low-skilled men and concurrent shifts in workforce composition toward women affect voting. We theorize that this labor market rebalancing produces “nostalgic” coalitions of men and women that seek a return to male-breadwinner family models. Such attitudes fuel right-wing movements that pledge to protect conservative gender roles. Evidence from local labor markets and voting in the United States over the last two decades, as well as a longitudinal study tracking individual Americans over several decades, support this theory. These findings contribute a new gender-based account of the globalization backlash.
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Part 1: Next week my first book makes its debut -- Climate Change on the Battlefield. It's looks at how militaries around the world are adapting (or not) to climate change. Available for pre-order here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/climate-c... (1/2)
Picture of a book, Climate Change on the Battlefield, by Erin Sikorsky.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thermal batteries are happening janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...
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Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The extra cost of diesel between the start of the Iran War is ~$375 per US household. Read more on the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker's diesel findings in this article: www.vox.com/today-explai...
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The overlooked factor making everything more expensive
The cost of diesel quietly raises the price of goods across the economy. You’re likely paying for it already.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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US offshore wind project battered by Trump attacks installs final turbine
Last wind turbine installed at Danish renewables giant Orsted’s Revolution Wind project off New England
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CSL Director @jeffcolgan.bsky.social spoke with NBC Washington on how the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker captures the increased costs American drivers are paying at the pump. Check it out here. @nbcwashington.com www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/l...
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Drivers frustrated as gas prices rise
Gas prices continue to surge, in large part due to the continuing war with Iran. News4’s Adam Tuss has a look at where things stand in our area.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
China is the key reason why the Strait of Hormuz oil 🛢️ crisis hasn't been considerably worse. But China's situation carries with it some important lessons for global climate policy and the reasons why countries go green 🌍 🔌. My talk yesterday @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social youtu.be/KSd63SKWl5M
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China Chat — China And The War In The Middle East: Consequences For The Global Energy Economy
YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CSL Director @jeffcolgan.bsky.social talks to the @wsj.com about the ballooning fuel costs of the US war with Iran www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Americans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran War
Higher gasoline and diesel prices have led many families to save less and curb spending elsewhere.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The Iowa Environmental Council’s report documented noticeable impacts to air quality from just one year of increased coal combustion.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1409202...
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As Power Demand Rises, a Clean-Energy State Falls Back on Coal - Inside Climate News
To meet surging electricity demand, Iowa utilities are increasingly turning to polluting coal plants that had been operating well below capacity.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The dark implications of the "medium" climate scenario here seem to be the buried lede of this 🌎 report. We are on a very bad path. "We are unlikely to see +4C by 2100" is a bit like saying that the conveyor belt carrying you towards a blast furnace probably won't get you fully in today.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On Monday I will talk on the subject "China and the War in the Middle East: Consequences for the Global Energy Economy" @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CSL Director Jeff Colgan was interviewed by Mother Jones on Trump's Venezuela oil deal. The winner of the deal "is not going to be the average American consumer... But it it is going to line the pockets of some American companies." Learn why in the interview! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's Venezuela deal helps his rich friends—and that's it
Some CEOs will make a fast buck. Gas prices won't change.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Most Americans don't buy diesel directly, but the high costs of trucking and shipping goods have cost the average household over $350 since the beginning of the Iran War, according to CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker. Read more on the diesel impacts here: grist.org/economics/wh...
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What the record-high cost of diesel means for you
Most Americans don't buy diesel, but the soaring costs of trucking and shipping goods have cost the average household $350.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"There's a real national security advantage to having an electrified economy that isn't so vulnerable to the ups and downs of the global oil market," said CSL Director Jeff Colgan to Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/0809202...
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As Hostilities Flare and Oil Prices Spike, U.S. Consumers Pay at the Pump - Inside Climate News
Experts say President Trump’s rollback of climate policy is leaving consumers more vulnerable to price shocks and pollution.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The $100B in added fuel costs for American households from the Iran War is roughly the same as the federal government's annual spending on SNAP. Read more on CSL's findings and and the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in this Huffpost article. www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
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This 1 Number Explains Why Trump's Approval Rating Is So Horrendous
Higher prices for gasoline and diesel fuel have soured Americans on the war and helped drive Trump’s approval rating into the toilet.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As gas prices in the US hit a national high over Labor Day weekend, so did CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker: $100B in extra energy costs for Americans since the start of the war. See how the Independent is featuring the Tracker's data in this recent article. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Iran War is costing Americans $100B in extra energy costs
Gas prices in the US hit a national high over Labor Day weekend
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
$763. That's how much the average US household has spent extra on energy since February 28th. Read more on the numbers from the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in this recent Al Jazeera article. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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How US consumers spent an additional $100bn on fuel due to war on Iran
The average US household has spent $763 extra on fuel in six months, as the US-Israel war on Iran pushes up fuel costs.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker continues to gain attention as the estimated amount Americans have spent on extra gasoline and diesel costs surpassed $100 billion this Labor Day weekend. Check out this Axios article featuring the Tracker! www.axios.com/2026/09/07/i...
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Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers
The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.
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Henrik Larsen @henriklarsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Denmark produced 109% of electricity consumption by wind alone yesterday. It could have been more if we had more capacity to store and export. Instead we had to shut down turbines. Numbers below from WindEurope
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out CSL Director Jeff Colgan's interview with CNN on how the Iran War is raising energy costs for consumers! @cnn.com @jeffcolgan.bsky.social
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"As consumers, Americans are paying higher prices [for] gasoline and diesel," says CSL Director Jeff Colgan in this recent Financial Times article. High costs are impacting Trump's popularity ahead of the midterms. www.ft.com/content/6972...
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Donald Trump summons US refiners as Iran war pushes up fuel prices
President to hold White House meeting on Tuesday as high living costs sap his popularity ahead of midterm elections
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Americans have had to pay an extra $95 BILLION for gasoline and diesel since President Trump decided to attack Iran on February 28, 2026. A war that hurts the global economy, undermines US power, creates hardship for working class, and helps the Iranian regime stay.🛢️🇺🇸 iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hi @gavinnewsom.bsky.social! Do you really want your legacy to be taking money away from school kids for air conditioning during heat waves to hand it to a fossil fuel company that made $1.8 billion in profit last year? Extend CalSHAPE. Cool the schools. It’s really not that complicated.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am on the environmental politics committee and also happy to chat at APSA!
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big congratulations to @sarahcolbourn.bsky.social for receiving the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award recognizes Sarah for her amazing work in the course 'Politics of Climate Change.' Well deserved, Sarah! 🎊
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wow. "25 of the 38 organizations (66%) supporting Exxon and Suncor have documented financial ties to fossil fuel defendants, the broader fossil fuel industry, or climate denial foundations and dark-money networks" consumerwatchdog.org/energy/new-r...
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New Report Exposes Fossil Fuel-Backed Network Flooding Supreme Court with Briefs Seeking to Shield Oil & Gas Companies in Climate Deception Case
Investigation identifies coordinated fossil fuel funding behind most industry-supporting briefs and raises new questions about Justice Samuel Alito's…
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Eric Scheuch @ericscheuch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This summer's heat has drawn attention to the impact of climate change on the home insurance market. Less clear is if individuals experiencing these changes change their opinions or behaviors in response. I investigate in a new working paper (osf.io/preprints/so... : (1/n)
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And we're back! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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Correspondent, The Economics of a Warming World
New York, NY
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Stand Up a National Climate Service
Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pleased to be cited in @theguardian.com Editorial on what the state's role should be in India's green growth: "The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial
Editorial: The world’s most populous country needs state-generated demand to industrialise, decarbonise and avoid China’s overcapacity trap
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hard not to see the cancellation of 3 high-transmission electricity corridors, at a time when USA desperately needs more electricity supply, as an idiotic own-goal. 🌍🔌 (Hegemonic suicide, as @sbmitche.bsky.social @thunen.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social would say)
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Energy Secretary Announces Cancellation of Three Proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will not move forward with designating the three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors previous...
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: A record 29% cars sold globally this year will be electric Meanwhile... China is exporting more E.V.s than the U.S. exports cars of any kind Latest w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social → www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A stacked area chart of global car sales by drivetrain from 2000 to 2026, in which electric vehicles grow from near zero to over a quarter of the market. Hybrid vehicles make up about another tenth of sales by 2026. And gas and diesel vehicle sales, in absolute numbers, will reach their lowest levels since the early 2000s this year.A chart that shows Chinese passenger electric vehicle (including plug-in hybrid) exports shooting up from nearly zero in January 2018 to  over over 9 million by June 2026. Chinese E.V. export values jump particularly quickly after the Strait of Hormuz closure. A second line plots all U.S. passenger vehicle exports, which remain fairly steady between 3 and 6 million across the same time period.
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Geoff Dabelko @geoffdabelko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lucky the Voinovich School is a Project ECHO Hub, enabling us to offer Building Resilience for Older Adults in a Changing Environment. Series starts in Sept and will help unpack the new challenges (and opportunities) in building resilience in an older and warmer world www.ohio.edu/news/2026/08...
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Helping state’s older adults deal with extreme weather the focus of latest free Project ECHO seminars hosted by OHIO’s Voinovich School
How Ohio’s rapidly aging population can better cope with heat waves, flooding and increasingly severe storms is the subject of a new six-part Project ECHO webinar series starting in September.
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 11/08/2026
The #SustainableED team's first publication is out in @pnas.org. We document the scale of potential pollutant & carcinogen exposure across US K12 schools. 8% of all schools are within a few blocks of EPA registered hazard sites. Exposure risk is highly inequitable. 🧵
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Guardian featured the CSL Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in its newsletter on the impact of Trump's Iran policies on rising costs for Americans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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First Thing: Soaring oil profits from US-Iran conflict drive calls for windfall tax
Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump’s policies raise costs for Americans
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to Huffpost about CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker and how much the war is costing American households. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
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‘It Hits A Nerve’: This Number Reveals How Much Americans Are Paying For Trump’s War With Iran
The Trump administration’s invasion of Iran has cost the typical U.S. household several hundred dollars in added fuel costs. The tab grows every day.
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 06/08/2026
Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to the FT about the ongoing fossil fuel costs of the Iran war. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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US diesel prices overtake Biden-era average in blow to Trump
Cost for fuel that powers industrial America set to remain elevated even as crude falls
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Solar output in the UK recorded an all-time high in July, reaching 3.2 TWh. 33% higher than July last year. Accelerating solar deployment coincided with a historically sunny month to produce this record. Solar power is delivering when heatwaves are at their worst.
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El Periódico @elperiodico.com · 02/08/2026
¿Los peores años de la lucha por el clima? Trump es un problema, pero las guerras de Ucrania e Irán impulsan las renovables
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¿Los peores años de la lucha por el clima? Trump es un problema, pero las guerras de Ucrania e Irán impulsan las renovables
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Mother of all risks": the scale of climate-related disruption to supply chains is being underestimated as global warming pushes the planet to the brink of environmental tipping points, according to Singapore’s former central bank chief www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Climate Is ‘Mother of’ Supply Chain Risks, Ex-Bank Chief Says
The scale of climate-related disruption to supply chains is being underestimated as global warming pushes the planet to the brink of environmental tipping points, according to Ravi Menon, Singapore’s ...
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Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) @brown-ibes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New research in @nature.com Scientific Data, with contributions from IBES & DEEPS Prof Laurence C. Smith 💡 Explore data from NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which sought to understand environmental changes in arctic & boreal regions using a Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor:
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The NASA ABoVE Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor full waveform LiDAR airborne surveys - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The NASA ABoVE Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor full waveform LiDAR airborne surveys
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026
The unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?
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Walmart Leapfrogs EV Charging Competitors With Rapid Buildout
In a matter of months, the retailer has become a major player in the business of fueling electric cars.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Imperial violence by armed petrostates (Russia, US) has created their own worst nightmare, a world racing to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster The Dawn of the Electric world order Ukrainians, Houthis and Iranians have been the armed wing of the Green new deal open.spotify.com/episode/0ESb...
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BREAKING: Electrification Action Plan dropped. The EU just committed to doubling electrification: 46% of final energy consumption by 2040, up from 23% today, where it has sat for a decade. My rapid response analysis of the Electrification Action Plan: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
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Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040
The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.
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Gabe De Roche @gabederoche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New survey research released today with @mattomildenberger.bsky.social -- a response to the "don't say climate change" crowd. Many have observed that climate change has moved down voters' list of priorities and have concluded that pro-climate policies would cost votes. That's testable! 🧵[1/13]
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