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Paul Sabin

@paulsabin.bsky.social
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American historian @Yale, energy and environmental politics and policy, author of "Public Citizens," "The Bet," and "Crude Politics" history.yale.edu/people/paul-sabin

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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Job Opportunity: "Lecturer, Environmental Policy, Politics, and Law." This is a multi-year appointment. Come join our team!
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A victory for public access to land-- and a conflict between stock raisers and private landowners vs hunters and anglers www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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‘Corner-crossing’ to reach public lands is legal, appeals court rules
The decision, in a case that pitted four Missouri hunters against a millionaire Wyoming landowner, protects public access to millions of acres across the West.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵
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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What to make of the grid/wildfire nexus as we lean into electrification? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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New Data Shows Major Electrical Disruption Ahead of Eaton Fire
A private lab found evidence of two massive electrical faults in the Eaton Canyon area just before a fire erupted there and spread through much of Altadena, Calif.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/01/2025
Investigators are still trying to determine what started the Eaton fire, which raged through Altadena, California, and killed 17 people. A new video appears to show sparking on a power line near the origin of the blaze. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
Power lines are suspended from metal towers across a scorched canyon, with houses on hillsides in the background. A headline reads: "New Video of Eaton Fire Raises More Questions for Power Company." Photo by Stephen Ross Goldstein for The New York Times.
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Mythili Rao @mythili.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New Zero episode! 🎧 travelling back in time with @paulsabin.bsky.social and Reagan-era environmental lawyer Jonathan Lash to better understand what may come in the Trump years ahead www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Imagine what we might have done w nine more IQ points www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
RIP Jimmy Carter at 100. Here's a look back at Carter's efforts to balance govt regulation and govt reform. Carter believed that making government more efficient and effective would build public support for active, liberal governance. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
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Perspective | Government regulation is vital, but it also needs to be efficient
Jimmy Carter's vision for protecting the environment and consumers — while cutting wasteful regulations.
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Read this @washingtonpost article back in June and thought it was an excellent use of audio and graphics in storytelling: www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
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Why restaurants are so loud, and what science says we can do about it
Complaints about noise continue to dominate restaurant reviews. Here’s what experts say about how sound affects our bodies and what we can do to mitigate it.
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Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The newly-announced DOGE could help institute these reforms. Unfortunately, Vivek and Elon’s expressed interest in cutting personnel would only exacerbate out state capacity problems – a point I expand on in my op-ed in @TheHill today: thehill.com/opinion/fina... END
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DOGE could help fix our infrastructure problems — or make them far worse
They’re dead wrong that taking a meat axe to the federal government’s workforce will make things better; in fact, that’s more likely to make things worse.
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Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🚨New paper: State Capacity for Building Infrastructure US infrastructure construction (transportation, energy, etc.) is often costly & slow. I discuss the data & propose reforms. 🧵 Here is the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" will come out in paperback on December 3. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Public Citizens
The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society., Public Citizens, The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism, ...
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
"New Perspectives in Energy History" Conference-- Free registration is now open. Saturday, March 2, 2024 in New Haven, CT environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Join Yale Environmental History for a virtual talk by Dr. Anto Mohsin on "The Politics of Electrification in Indonesia Post World War II." Thursday 2/8, 4pm ET. #energyhistory environmentalhumanities.yale.edu/event/anto-m...
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Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Join Jiat-Hwee Chang and Yale Environmental History to learn about the technopolitics of cooling infrastructure in Singapore and Doha next Wednesday, Jan 31 @ 7:00pm ET yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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