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Marvin Brown

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Environmental Lawyer @Earthjustice (views my own) working on reducing air pollution from our transportation system; lamenter of Cleveland sports; he/him/his.

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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@wmata.com Hi WMATA, would it be possible to park unused buses in another spot instead of in front of the temporary bus bays at Congress Heights? The parked buses block all visibility from the stop and in order to catch a bus at Congress Heights now, you have to stand in the middle of the street.
Image shows parked buses blocking the view of the temporary bus bays in front of Walker Whitman in Congress Heights.Image taken from the point of view of a transit rider standing in the street in order to see upcoming buses, as the view from
the bus bay is blocked by parked busses.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
proelectrica.substack.com
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Jose Martinez @jmartineznyc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"A lot less traffic, a lot cleaner air and a lot of other good stuff.” Such as new refrigeration units on trucks at the Hunts Point Produce Market. The South Bronx has long had among the highest rates of highest respiratory ailments in the U.S. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/01/c...
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Congestion Tolls Fund Fridges to Replace Diesel-Spewing Units in South Bronx
New equipment at the Hunts Point Produce Market will cut pollution equal to the emissions of 6,000 trucks each day.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
For example, his recent announcement on scaffolding in NYC: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Truly, one of the great gifts of Zohran Mamdani’s time as mayor so far has been his constant reminder that government is here to make life better for its residents.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
From FN 8. "...in light of concerns raised by some commenters about the draft report authored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (CWG), the EPA is not relying on the May 27, 2025 CWG draft report"
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Across the United States, the NO2 exposure of ∼22 million people would fall below the World Health Organization (WHO)'s long-term exposure guideline (10 µg/m3 or 5.2 ppbv) if they reduced or stopped cooking with gas or propane."
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Integrating indoor and outdoor nitrogen dioxide exposures in US homes nationally by ZIP code
Abstract. Concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) measured outdoors using satellites and ground-level stations across the United States are regularly used
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I need Italy to drop the details of the remix of Largo al factotum that they used for their walk in music for the Winter Olympics last night. The people need it for our workout playlists!
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Another way to write this headline is to simply state “Trump lied about Project 2025: Here are the policies from it he’s implemented” www.npr.org/2026/01/19/n...
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Trump has rolled out many of the Project 2025 policies he once claimed ignorance about
Some of the 2025 policies that have been implemented include cracking down on immigration and dismantling the Department of Education.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Another 2024 study found that PM2.5 exposure explains half of the mortality gap between Black and white Americans doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Client Challenge
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This morning, we sued the Trump Administration over its unlawful freeze of $2.5 billion congressionally approved funding for charging infrastructure. People want and deserve reliable EV charging infrastructure and the administration is taking us backwards. earthjustice.org/press/2025/m...
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Major Environmental Organizations Sue Trump Administration Over Hold on Billions for Electric Vehicle Charging
Millions of Americans would breathe easier if Trump administration unlocks clean transportation funds
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2025
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
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Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
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tim_in_dc @timdc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
all this reporting on dc's challenges but no mention that congress voided our rewrite of the criminal code then a few years later cut a billion dollars from our budget.🤷🏾
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/06/2025
The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)
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The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method…
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
According to this rainbow, a pot of gold can be found in the Roaming Rooster at Nats Park.
Photo of a rainbow at the Nats baseball stadium in Washington DC, shining on a Roaming Rooster restaurant on the second deck of the park.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fantastic news, for both workers and residents, in Alexandria. As Jesse Maines from the city noted, "running a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour is comparable to driving from DC to Miami in a new car." Hopefully, the ban passes, but the key will be enforcement. www.alxnow.com/2025/05/14/a...
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Alexandria City Council advances ban on gas-powered leaf blowers | ALXnow
The Alexandria City Council has taken the first legislative step toward banning gas-powered leaf blowers, citing significant environmental and noise concerns. On Tuesday, the council voted 5-1 on the ...
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
One of the most impressive parts of OKC basketball is their ability to get nearly everyone in their stadium to wear their free t-shirts game after game. Judging by other cities this year, OKC’s t-shirt compliance, even among the rich with floor seats, has got to be a modern NBA record.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
E-bikes consistently bring the type of joy and freedom that cars promise. wapo.st/42X6TZE
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This man picked up e-biking at age 94. In 2 years, he rode 2,000 miles.
Ed McLaughlin, who lives in South Dakota, said he’s proof it’s never too late to start a hobby.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It’s hard to think of a more moving photo of a politician in recent memory. Legit brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for not giving up on your constituent.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
point access blocks in DC you love to see it
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/04/2025
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pushing for sprawl is the housing version of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill.” As with energy, we desperately need more housing. But the environmental effects of sprawl—like coal and oil—are well known. Building dense, walkable neighborhoods is the answer, not sprawl. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
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America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's worth noting that the two things that this study found to be effective in avoiding deaths caused by coal pollution—closing coal power plants and installing emission control devices—are also the two things that the Trump administration is trying to undermine.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The retort here is simple: coal kills. "[B]etween 1999 and 2020, 460,000 deaths would not have occurred in the absence of emission from the coal power plants." www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Deaths associated with pollution from coal power plants
Air pollution from coal power plants was associated with greater mortality than previously thought, but such deaths have decreased due to air pollution regulations and coal power plant retirements.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Biking to work today was … “fun.”
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 06/04/2025
I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/04/2025
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Fantastic piece by Ben Ehrenreich on how the bipartisan repression of anti-genocide protests set the groundwork for Trump’s fascism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Quote from article “You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza” by Ben Ehrenreich

“Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in. The Trump administration’s first political persecutions have all targeted individuals who were bold enough to believe that constitutional guarantees of free expression extended to solidarity with Palestine. This was hardly an accident. In the time-honored practice of predatory bullies everywhere, Trump’s minions went after the defenseless first, and specifically those made vulnerable not only by their immigration status but by a 15-month-and-running bipartisan campaign to repress opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, an effort in which nearly every political, educational, and cultural institution in American society has taken part.”
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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“The carnage on our highways and roads is just intolerable, and I think the public wants to see real action. We need to make this a serious national priority, and not just something that every local government struggles with on its own.” - @raskin.house.gov usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/01/t...
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'The Carnage is Intolerable': Rep. Jamie Raskin on Why Bike Safety is Becoming Bipartisan — Streetsblog USA
"We need to reject any insinuation that it's not a national priority to make local roads safer."
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
DC Lawyers, please come to our office to meet Diane Seltzer on April 22, who will hopefully be our next DC Bar President!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/03/2025
I get the joke but presenting Donald Trump as if he's a degrowther is a bad faith association. The tenets of degrowth are obviously centred around equity and fairness (though you can nutpick accelerationist fools if you want to). Trump isn't degrowth: he's deeply capitalist eco-fascist.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Among other horrors, this Executive Order seems like a subtle way of saying the Trump administration may use the Smithsonian to bring biological racism back into vogue.
Screenshot from Trump admin’s executive order, highlighting the following phrase in a sentence about an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”” 

Here is the full paragraph from the Executive Order:
“For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power:  Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.”  The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.””
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Grist @grist.org · 21/03/2025
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss. grist.org/biking/one-m... #Bikes #Bicycle #Economy #GreenSky #Transportation
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It’s not.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“…my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change …. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.”
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) has saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the years. Cutting ORD will save little and it will cause thousands to die.
Clean Air Act retrospective study chart showing the reduction in risk of various air pollution-related health effects achieved by 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment programs, with each risk change expressed as the equivalent number of incidences avoided across the exposed population. For example, in 2010, as a result of the Clean Air Act 160,000 deaths were avoided from PM2.5 pollution. In 2020, 230,000 deaths were avoided. Exhibit comparing the costs of implementing the Clean Air Act compared to the benefits. The chart shows that the costs are overwhelmingly outweighed by the benefits.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
limiting housing to major roads, arterials, & highways is a massive public health nightmare air & noise pollution are associated w/ increased risk of numerous health issues: lung cancer cardiovascular disease stroke asthma COPD diabetes mental health effects ronpdavis.substack.com/p/mike-elias...
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Mike Eliason on "Corridor" Zoning
A Guest Post
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If this is Schumer’s calculus, then the problem is that he is assuming that the Court will rule in a certain way. Mitch McConnell made the same assumption and now we’re here. Who knows where we will be in September, or even what parts of the federal government will be left to save.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And as if we can instantly measure all results. "The tyranny of the quantifiable," an environmentalist said to me long ago, and so much of what matters most is not quantifiable or efficient or profitable in the narrow sense, and that's kind of what all this is about. So thank you Ms Kabas.
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Marvin Brown @marvinbrown.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More evidence on the power of road pricing!
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