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Noel Healy

@drnoelhealy.bsky.social
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Professor | Climate and Energy Policy | Director of Climate Justice and Just Transformations Lab at SSU | bit.ly/NoelHealySSU

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 25/09/2026
Corporate capture of universities is happening and has been happening. How do we use collective organizing to protect academic integrity? See CSSN scholar’s publication out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States
Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Grateful to receive Salem State University's 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award. Particularly meaningful as a university-wide award that is student-nominated and faculty peer-reviewed. Thanks to my students and the selection committee.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 22/04/2026
An exciting event to look out for this weekend at the energy transition conference in Colombia. The event will feature experts on climate obstruction, and will offer strategies for a just energy transition. See the link for more information and how to attend!
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 22/04/2026
Researchers find that 98% of recent environmental claims by major meat and dairy companies can be characterized as greenwashing. See M. Bach, L. Loy, @katharinemach.bsky.social, S. Shukla McDermid, and J. Jacquet's full study below. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest: reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...
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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”
The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is a very fun conversation with #AlexStrathdee about writing, my books, and how being an author became a dangerous trade: Here's the link to your episode: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2K7e...
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BTB176: The $100,000+ Book That Exposed How Truth Gets Twisted - Inside Merchants of Doubt with Author Naomi Oreskes
Podcast Episode · Before The Bestseller · April 6 · 31m
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batul.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This Australian Senate inquiry is important not just for that country--it's really about the problem we face of information pollution and paid influence around the world. Our @cssn.org research, assessment volumes, and testimony featured prominently Major kudos to @senatorsurfer.bsky.social et al
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What's going on with claims about #climate science and solutions in the #USCongress? Here's our analysis of trends over three decades using the most sophisticated framework yet. An exciting collaboration of three research teams on three continents. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress - Communications Sustainability
Congressional opposition to climate policies has grown in the United States, and Republicans are approximately twelve times more likely than Democrats to make contrarian claims, according to an analys...
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our big study is just up. www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/who-s-o...
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Who’s Obstructing Climate Action in the Rhode Island Legislature?
Prompted by the lack of climate action in the Rhode Island legislature since the Act on Climate passed in 2021, student and staff researchers in the Climate and Development Lab looked into some key qu...
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is the most important development in the fight for a liveable planet in DECADES, and it comes out at just the right time to enable us to put spotlight and pressure on climate obstruction at the COP30 in Brazil. BRAVO TIMMONS AND CSSN COLLEAGUES!!!!! 🤩🌍🤩
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Recently I joined PIIE's Policy for the Planet, where host Monica de Bolle and I discussed how attacks on climate science contribute to polarization and the demonization of science, and how to combat these trends. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: policyfortheplanet.com/how-to-comba...
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Policy for the Planet: How to combat disinformation on climate science (Episode 18)
In the age of the Internet, artificial intelligence, social media, and instant access to knowledge, disinformation has become a challenge in public discourse on climate change. Naomi Oreskes (Harvard ...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Welcome to the World of Obstruction
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Huh, so I guess they haven't all fled the state
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Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe
Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.
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Jonathan Buonocore @jjbuonocore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'm really happy to have been a part of this, with @marydwillis.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other people that aren't on here yet (sorry if you are and I can't find you!) academic.oup.com/oocc/article...
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Scientists’ warning on fossil fuels
Abstract. The evidence is clear that fossil fuels—and the fossil fuel industry and its enablers—are driving a multitude of interlinked crises that jeopardi
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Not to make everything about fossil fuels, but plastics are literally✨fossil fuels ✨
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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Out in @natureenergy.bsky.social, with Esther Shears and Jared Finnegan www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you're going to be at AAG in Detroit, join us and @blackgeographies.bsky.social for Happy Hour on Tuesday at the Elephant Room from 6-8, right after the BGSG keynote! Drink tickets available while they last!
An incredibly rudimentary happy hour flier for Tuesday March 25 at the Elephant Room in Detroit during the AAG conference.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"This suggests that integrating certain carbon-centric policies into a wider program of social, economic, and democratic reforms would achieve decarbonization more effectively than carbon-centric policies alone" - @drnoelhealy.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social
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How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal
Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND prop…
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
fossil fuels & climate change are the leading preventable cause of death worldwide.
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Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Check out our Cities@Tufts Podcasts and Videos! Hear @lorettaclees.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @norton.bsky.social @drnoelhealy.bsky.social @tamikabutler.bsky.social @sarameerow.bsky.social @ianguelovski.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social and more! www.shareable.net/cities-tufts/
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Cities@Tufts Colloquium
Shareable and Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning co-present this ongoing free lecture series hosted by professor Shareable and Tufts University co-present Citie...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Grateful to Cities At Tufts for crafting a great visual summary of my talk on Decolonizing Climate & Energy Policy. Thanks to @julianagyeman.bsky.social for organizing! 🎧 Spotify recording: open.spotify.com/episode/5XZt... #ClimateJustice #ClimatePolicy #Decolonization #JustTransition #Climate
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
2.5 hours from now!
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists. Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe. by @tzeporah.bsky.social #LAFire #EnergySky #GreenSky #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists | Tzeporah Berman
Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe
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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Looking forward to reading this book on Green New Deal in Chile includes leading Latin American thinkers on green transition @svampam.bsky.social @albertoacosta.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @enriqueviale.bsky.social @pepoglatz.bsky.social
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thank you, @julianagyeman.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at Cities At Tufts! It was a pleasure to share insights on decolonizing climate and energy policy. Watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7E...
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Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy with Noel Healy
YouTube video by Cities@Tufts
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
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Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 04/12/2024
The first major study on the relationship between the fossil fuel industry and higher education. Work from CSSN scholars S. Hiltner, E. Eaton, @andyjsc.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, @drnoelhealy.bsky.social, and @geoffreysupran.bsky.social featured: universitytimes.ie/2024/12/clim...
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Climate Education and Collective Action Could Spare Higher Education from the Fossil Fuel Industry
A research study reveals the influence of the fossil fuel industry in higher education.
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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another job posting from the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami just dropped, this one in the psychology of climate change communication and psychological inoculation against misinformation... More info and application form here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
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Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami
Apply for Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
1/3. "The $250 billion a year is a cruel condemnation to death for the world's vulnerable peoples." Gerald Arances for the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development reacting to the new COP29 Presidency text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) out today at #COP29.
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Peter McPhee @peter-mcphee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Massachusetts is trying to figure out the best structure for delivering decarbonization policy to consumers for the next 25 years. Is it through utilities? Or should the state take the lead? Any thoughts? Want to learn more about options? Share your expert views? www.mass.gov/info-details...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 22/11/2024
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
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We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 21/11/2024
New internal industry documents reveal how Big Oil companies embedded themselves in international climate negotiations. @amywestervelt.bsky.social & @roycerk2.bsky.social report 👇 drilled.media/news/IPIECA1
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The Great COP Co-opting: New Documents Show Big Oil Has Been There All Along
As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📣Tomorrow, Cities @ Tufts event Wednesday, Nov. 20 at noon ET. Virtual public event: Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy by @drnoelhealy.bsky.social #ClimateSky Register Here: lnkd.in/eu_JamKB
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I don't think Alyssa is on here yet, but everyone should pre-order her dope new book, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Free Gifts
A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You think "Big Oil" is influencing international climate negotiations? Meet Big Meat, Big Diary, and Big Chemicals... www.desmog.com/2024/11/18/b...
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Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to Climate Summit
BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows.  This year representatives are back from some of the world’s ...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Wednesday, Nov. 20 at noon ET. Free virtual event: www.eventbrite.com/e/decolonizi...
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Robert McSweeney @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org · 18/11/2024
Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies. interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-... THREAD 1/10
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 18/11/2024
The first week of the #COP29 climate talks just wrapped! Our team on the ground has been working hard to push back against industry spin and pressure rich countries to pay up. Here are the highlights: www.oilchange.org/blogs/cop29-...
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COP29 Dispatch: The biggest stories from week 1
The first week of the UN climate negotiations (COP29) just wrapped up in Azerbaijan – and it has been a busy week! Last year at COP28, we achieved something unprecedented: the world'
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