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Rebecca Dell

@rebeccawdell.bsky.social
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Working to make stuff without baking the planet. Penchant for well-informed opinions. Industry Program Director, ClimateWorks Foundation. Views my own.

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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🚨🚨 Fantastic Job Opportunity🚨🚨 Industrious Labs is hiring a Senior Campaign Analyst! Initial focus on a cement project then leading analytics on industrial clean electricity sourcing. This is the most important topic in industry decarb and one of the best groups. recruiterflow.com/axistalentpa...
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Apply to Sr Campaign Analyst at Industrious Labs at Axis Talent Partners
About Industrious Labs Heavy industry is the foundation of modern society. We need materials like cement, steel, and aluminum more than ever to rebuild our bridges and roads, construct wind and solar ...
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New from me and @jmijin.bsky.social: the third in our series arguing for and explaining how to do a governance demonstration of public acquisition of US fossil fuel assets for managed decline. We focus on Powder River Basin (PRB) coal assets and find market value is ~$0
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...
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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).
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/06/2026
This -- autonomous vehicles leading to vastly more congestion, more total vehicle miles driven -- is very predictable, and frequently predicted. Far as I can tell, none of the enthusiasts, in industry or in the cities opting for this stuff, gives a shit. It's maddening.
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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The morning sunrise reveals Tropical Storm Amanda over the Pacific Ocean.
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sharing a fascinating graph of fuel use by the global cement industry, made by my colleague, Christy Stanker. We often think of the cement industry as running on coal. After all, the only coal-burning facilities left in California are cement kilns. But the truth is more complex and interesting.
Bar graph of fuels used by the global cement industry, 2022
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Data from the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) short-term energy outlook projects that solar generation in California will top gas generation for the first time this year, with the gap widening in 2027." ieefa.org/resources/ca... via @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social 🔌💡
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California’s gas use for power falls to record low
The state’s effort to wean its grid from gas is succeeding after years of effort
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Trump administration is going to spend tens of millions of dollars to remove and presumably destroy hugely valuable oceanographic observing systems, more than a decade before the end of their service life. Don't teach us, we don't want to learn. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#EnergySky Any recommended introductory resources on electricity prices for masters students? Bright but untrained, so I need to explain the major components of the system (E/T&D/&c), financial costs, cost allocation, bonus for some int'l comparison. The basics of why power costs what it costs.
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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our latest Corporate Climate Assessment of @nippon-steel.bsky.social reveals its recent global expansion has not been matched by responsible climate action.
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Hilary Lewis @hilarylewis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“We deserve the same modernization investments that are happening elsewhere,” Councilwoman Latham said. “Green steelmaking and cleaner technologies are possible, and they’re worth discussing. … The future of steel must include us. It must include our voices.” via @chicagotribune.com
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More than 100 gather for Gary green steel town hall
Northwest Indiana has carried the environmental burden of creating steel for decades, Gary Councilwoman Lori Latham, D-1st, said. Now, she believes it’s time for a change in the city. “We deserve ...
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
302/ "Economists & traders warn the next phase of the crisis could bring another sharp jump in energy prices, broader fuel rationing, industrial shutdowns & a significant slowdown in global growth" Why not already? Read this great thread - Inventory burn then prices surge bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This really is quite something. In the 15 years @carbonbrief.org have tracked UK media, 2025 was first ever year where more newspaper editorials opposed #climate action than supported it. Meanwhile, the *actual* climate crisis deepens by the month. Go figure.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great thread. Thoroughly explains the mystery of the not-catastrophic oil prices.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"This makes the Chinese reserve bigger than all the other national reserves combined. For comparison, this is ~90 days of Chinese demand, while U.S. reserves are about 40 days of U.S. demand" Please read this clear thread. Upshot: Inventory draw down then prices surge up! bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Very useful thread
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Why are oil prices not higher? In short, America’s selling while China ain’t buying" "the US has responded by cranking up exports, while China has slashed imports" www.ft.com/content/ae62...
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great thread from @rebeccawdell.bsky.social on what is actually happening with oil and gas. Yes, the #StraitofHormuz closure cut off a lot of exports; but those have been partially compensated by drawing down reserves. That can't last much longer.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great thread. One amongst several upshots is within a few weeks to a month China’s willingness to deploy its strategic oil reserve or save it for later, with all that implies for its net imports and global oil prices, will be the global oil price maker on a scale of $10s to a $100+/barrel.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
read this whole thread
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/05/2026
Extremely helpful & illuminating thread about the state of global oil & gas markets. IMHO, the fact that global oil reserves could be exhausted within weeks & the price of oil could then *double* kinda seems like something that Americans should be more worried about!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026
BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
When I was a teenager, I loved driving through the museum of discarded wind turbine technologies that was the Altamont Pass: 2 blades! 20 blades! Egg beaters! Upwind! Downwind! Vertical axis! You name it! But that wind is too good to waste. Great story:
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
While chatting with some friends, it occurred to me that other people could benefit from a summary understanding of what's going on in the oil and gas markets. Here are some little pictures to give you the big picture. 🧵
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/12/2025
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies. Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.
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Emily Dell @emilydell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
2025 Vibes. 🎨 Amos Paul Kennedy, Citizen Printer 📍San Francisco Letterform Archive
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is bad too.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/01/2026
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is really great.
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I'm so excited to be introducing TWO new energy affordability bills today!
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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Hyundai is building a pilot iron production facility that runs on hydrogen in advance of constructing its much larger project in Louisiana. Fascinating. biz.chosun.com/en/en-indust...
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Hyundai Steel builds Dangjin pilot plant to fast‑track DRI US mill
Hyundai Steel builds Dangjin pilot plant to fast‑track DRI US mill Pilot facility to test hydrogen and gas direct reduction processes ahead of Louisiana mill startup
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
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Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We have the technologies we need to cut pollution from the industrial sector. In our new report, we take a deep dive into an immediate, practical opportunity: electrifying low- and medium-temperature process heat in manufacturing food, beverage, paper and chemicals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New Roadmap Shows How to Cut a Surprisingly Big Source of Emissions
Electricity can replace natural gas to provide the low- and medium-grade heat needed to make food, paper and chemicals.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Critical work on a sector that used to be considered hard to decarbonize. Key takeaway-- electrification with clean energy can replace process heat for many industries cost-effectively. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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