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Chiara Pappalardo

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Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Law & Sustainability at Widener Law Commonwealth | Ballet Lover 🩰

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One of the many Third Act crews out door-knocking in Pennsylvania yesterday. If old folks can do this in a nor'easter, anyone can! Under 40 days to go, run through the tape!
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first 2 minutes of this exceptional documentary are a very good indication of the high quality of this brilliant 1 and a half hour journey through fear and despair and arriving at hope.
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Contrary to what one may think, tennis is much more about strategy and technique than brute force. Something at which women excel.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here. 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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oil-Rich Oman Bets Big on Renewable Energy. #Oman is planning a major expansion of #solar, #wind and energy-storage capacity through 2030. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
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Oil-Rich Oman Bets Big on Renewable Energy | OilPrice.com
Oman is accelerating investment in solar, wind, energy storage, and green hydrogen while maintaining oil and gas production as it pursues net zero by 2050.
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Do one outrageous thing in the cause of simple justice” — my new mantra.
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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/08/2026
New York, we’re doing everything we can to keep you safe this hurricane season. If a storm is on its way: Check if you live in a coastal evacuation zone at finder.nyc.gov/hurricane. Pack a go bag with meds, important documents & essentials. Sign up for emergency alerts - text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oxford Uni Expert Comment: New #nuclear capacity won’t fix today’s energy problems. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-08...
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Expert Comment: New nuclear capacity won’t fix today’s energy problems
Dr Bettina Wittneben, Lecturer in Management at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Associate Fellow at Pembroke College and the School of Geography and the Environment, sets out four risks that policym...
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is what a real leader says.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Rep. (Speaker?) @rokhanna.bsky.social responds to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social saying he doesn’t 🤔support Medicare For All — “Medicare For All is arguably the most important priority.” #MedicareForAllNOW
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
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Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/08/2026
I love this. Senate candidate Annie Andrews says she decided to jump into the race the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS. She’s a pediatrician. Saw what was coming & decided she couldn’t sit on the sidelines. THIS is what I’m talking about. Feeling called to serve & actually following through.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11/08/2026
Lake Mead lowest ever. Siberia hits 90. Vienna 105. Northwest on fire. Ocean heat record. Nothing to see here folks.
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Lake Mead, the nation’s biggest reservoir, hits lowest level on record
The milestone is yet another sign of the escalating water crisis on the Colorado River, which scientists say is worsened by climate change.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This idiotic tweet reminds me of when a friend and I visited Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Founded in 1850, it reveals a fascinating history. We noticed how many gravestones were for infants. And for many young sibling dying in the same week. We realized that it was before vaccines and antibiotics.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“…reading shaped the modern mind. Its disappearance will reshape it. …what’s at risk is nothing less than the ability to think for oneself” — an absolute must read, especially for those in academia, in conjunction with “Accommodation Nation” by the same author. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In a first, Utah got more power from solar than any other source - Grist apple.news/ANXBDSbiaTki...
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In a first, Utah got more power from solar than any other source — Grist
Utah’s solar generation eclipsed all other electricity sources for the first time ever in May, the culmination of a slow but steady years-long shift away from coal. Energy experts are calling it a win...
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“… here’s the truth about classics. Nobody gets to decide how all those wonderful ancient stories get retold, rewritten for new times or redeployed to make new arguments or share new perspectives. No one person gets to own the ancient world. Especially not Elon Musk.” apple.news/A3Qxaa4TQSN2...
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Opinion | The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview — Guardian US
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 03/08/2026
England set to be hotter than Santorini as 35C heatwave sparks fresh health warnings
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England set to be hotter than Santorini as 35C heatwave sparks fresh health warnings
More amber heat health alerts have been issued across parts of the UK for three days
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🤔 Yikes — downright Newsmax-ian framing from jackie alemany on @msnowreports.bsky.social as she tries to accuse @abdulelsayed.bsky.social of using “antisemitic tropes” because he thinks we should stop funding Israel’s genocide and invest in our own people.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
WATCH — @corbintrent.bsky.social ON FOX: “Socialism is all through this entire economy. The greatest country on 🌎 was built with a combination of socialism and capitalism. That’s when things work the best.”
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“For months .. Western Europe had been scorched by back-to-back heat waves and an extended drought that dried out trees, shrubs, and farmland, turning the landscape into a tinderbox. Climate change makes the confluence of these extremes more likely, scientists say.” apple.news/ABrUE_RmhTqG...
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Here's what supercharged the monster wildfires in Spain and France — Grist
Over the past week, hundreds of thousands of people in France and Spain fled their homes, many in the dead of night, carrying only what they could. In the coming days and weeks, as evacuation orders l...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 31/07/2026
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
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‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Seven first-of-a-kind energy storage projects have completed government-backed trials aimed at keeping renewable power available during long periods of low wind and reducing reliance on gas. www.energylivenews.com/2026/07/27/g...
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Government storage trials reveal technologies that could back up renewables - Energy Live News
Seven different projects to get funding to help with curtailment and improving system resilience
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 24/07/2026
“Frustrations are mounting,” said FERC commission Chair Laura Swett. “Put plainly, market participants have lost confidence in PJM’s decision-making abilities.” From @marylandmatters.org.web.brid.gy
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Advocates, regulators both call for reforms at power grid operator PJM • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
As federal energy officials met Thursday for a daylong conference on PJM Interconnection, Maryland legislators and advocates rallied outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to express concern...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Renewables are overtaking coal as the world's largest source of electricity generation, after near parity in 2025. New @iea.org mid-year update: their share goes from 33% to 37% by 2027, solar and wind from 17% to 21%. EU well ahead of global average. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/3c66a...
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/07/2026
Tech executives have warned AI could funnel enormous wealth to a handful of people and create a “permanent underclass.” Why should Big Tech get all the profits while we pay the costs? It’s time to tax AI.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
By generating #renewableelectricity and fresh water from the same installation,these projects address #clean-energy and water scarcity Although still emerging, integrated solar-desalination systems could become especially valuable for islands, coastal communities, drought-prone regions #ActOnClimate
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
UK heat pumps have got a lot more efficient over time. Higher efficiency means lower running costs, lower peak demand, bigger carbon savings and less load on the energy system. Our study on this was picked up by pv magazine. Long read on Substack coming soon. Sign up: janrosenow.substack.com
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft. newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...
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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe
The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026
So here are some thoughts on this heatwave: against fatalism, against inevitability, and against the fossil fuel industry's ongoing efforts to ensure they do as much damage as they can over the coming decades. These fossil-fuelled extremes emerge from decisions we can identify in recent history
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New @iea.org analysis on EU electrification answers a question people keep asking: is going electric actually cheaper today? For large share of demand, increasingly yes. Where a country's bar reaches into or above the 2025 price band, it's already cost-competitive. Hold-up is cost, grids and taxes.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...
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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW LAW IN OKLAHOMA Data Centers Can't Pass Their Energy Costs to Consumers The law requires large-load customers adding 75 megawatts or more of demand to sign long-term agreements covering infrastructure costs tied to their projects, rather than spreading those costs across the general rate base.
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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Solar ftw abcnews.com/US/solar-gen...
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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For decades fossil fuels meant energy security and renewables meant risk. The Strait of Hormuz flipped that. A fuel supply cut off overnight by a blockade is intermittent too. I spoke to CNBC from the Eurelectric Power Summit in Helsinki on what comes next. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/i...
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How the Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped the energy security debate
Iran's influence over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
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Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify
How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
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Kleinman Center for Energy Policy @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Rising energy prices are reshaping life—from food and transportation to electricity bills, infrastructure, and global geopolitics. Penn experts break down the ripple effects of today’s energy crisis and what it means for households, markets, and the clean energy transition. bit.ly/4dy6Mb6
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Implications of Rising Energy Costs: A Kleinman Center and Perry World House Q&A - Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania
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