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Not a commentary on the permitting reform deal, which I’ve yet to examinenin detail, but I love how it doesn’t quite compute for Matt Yglesias that you can oppose climate hushing and also do substantive energy transition work!

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 9h

Gavin Newsom "finished strong on Wednesday — mostly. Newsom signed a slate of important bills ... that should accelerate the energy transition while lowering utility bills for Californians." A recap by @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/newsom-cle... 🔌💡

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Breaking: Newsom green-lights balcony solar

The governor finished strong on clean energy — with one big exception.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great primer on how the year ended for CA's surviving slate of clean energy bills. I'll admit that it's a better showing overall than I expected!

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 10h

I've spent the last four hours scrambling to talk with all the key players and bring you hot fresh news and analysis, so please click and read and also subscribe to my independent climate newsletter if you can ! climatecoloredgoggles.com/subscribe

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Newsom signed a bunch of clean energy bills! Californians can now install balcony solar. Plus big wins for virtual power plants, reining in utility profits and converting farmland to solar. One loser: community solar. Really stings. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/newsom-cle...

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Breaking: Newsom green-lights balcony solar

The governor finished strong on clean energy — with one big exception.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 14h

Good rundown of Western alfalfa acreage and export numbers by state (Colorado River Basin only): www.landdesk.org/p/data-dump-... via @landdesk.bsky.social

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Data Dump: Western Hay and Alfalfa Exports

☘️ ANNALS OF ALFALFA 🍀

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19h

Less than 12 hours now. No word on most of the big clean energy legislation. Newsom currently chatting with the Sacramento press corps.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

In a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:

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Governor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with Media

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gavin Newsom signed a bill meant to limit the Trump administration's ability to open the California coast to offshore oil drilling: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

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Can California stop Trump from drilling off its coast? A new law tries

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

36 hours for Gavin Newsom to sign or veto bills, and he’s still take no action on important clean energy legislation: balcony solar, community solar, virtual power plants, home electrification, ag-to-solar. Good time to revisit my story from Sept 1: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/chaos-energy

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Chaos energy

Will California build solar on drought-stressed farmland? A late-summer nail-biter in Sacramento.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's one state where Trump is letting lots of solar projects move forward on public land: Nevada. The Republican governor says he asked Trump to make it happen, and Trump gave the order to Doug Burgum. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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Nevada Is Making Surprising Gains in Solar Energy

Solar projects on federal lands were left in limbo after the Trump spurned clean energy, but several proposals in Nevada are now moving ahead.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"And thus, guest equality, what was once an 'inviolable virtue,' is forever a thing of the past, no matter who is in charge." Good Chapek takedown.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All those "emergency" orders from the Trump administration ordering power companies to keep running coal plants otherwise slated to shut down? Turns out federal officials got the idea from a coal lobbyist: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...

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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.

In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Conservative legal groups are weaponizing public records laws to harass and silence university scientists whose research might be used to target fossil fuel companies in court: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coastal erosion is just like the wildfire crisis, in a lot of ways. In places like Malibu, a century of poor development decisions designed to tame nature were already holding up poorly, and now they're getting torn to shreds with the climate crisis. insideclimatenews.org/news/2709202...

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A Century of Sand Debt Comes Due in Malibu - Inside Climate News

A new study finds the world’s great surf breaks are vulnerable to climate change. In Malibu, the problem is more specific: a coast with few defenses, with a record El Niño winter closing in.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“So long as you’re with the people you love, you’ll be home. And that’s true in any weather.” Sesame Street is teaching kids to navigate climate-fueled extreme weather: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’

New York event hears about the red Muppet’s fears during a recent storm as climate crisis increasingly affects children

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great story by @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social about Palisades, Colorado, home of the "perfect peach." For the first time ever, its farmers are in danger of losing their water supplies amid the escalating Colorado River crisis: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Peaches put this town on the map. The Colorado River drought could wipe it all away.

Like much of the Southwest, the home of the “perfect peach” is facing the greatest Colorado River crisis in recent memory.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like, even if you have Chris Wright and Doug Burgum and Katie Miller on board (big hypothetical). Trump could just wake up one day and blow it all up. Maybe somebody mentions "Solyndra" on Fox News. Or maybe he remembers his Scottish golf course. Or no reason whatsoever. Crazy roll of the dice.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big fan of Sheldon Whitehouse. But the idea that any guarantee the Trump White House would stop blocking renewables in exchange for a permitting reform law feels incredibly naive to me. grist.org/politics/per...

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Gas, solar, and tech companies all want this bill. Will Congress pass it?

Permitting reform is popular in Washington, but facilitating data centers is "toxic" with voters.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rail line has been there since the 1880s, but in the last five years, there’s been no other time in history where we’ve had this much impact.” El Niño is accelerating the climate threat to SoCal's Pacific Surfliner: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @summerrlin.bsky.social

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El Niño threatens the beloved Pacific Surfliner. Can the iconic train survive the winter?

A section of railway in San Clemente, as well as other portions in coastal Orange County, have repeatedly shut down for landslides, coastal erosion and rockfalls. Another stormy winter is coming.

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Elon Musk's America PAC spending on Senate races. This is just based on what we know so far via FEC filings: focus on Texas, Ohio and Michigan

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Anyone who has lived in or traveled to countries with state-run media will recognize the similarities between Trump’s ads and those of, say, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein or current strongmen like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.” Paid for by US taxpayers: www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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Commentary: Call it propaganda or a PSA, Trump's latest ad blitz is paid for by you

Criticism spills over on strategically timed ads paid for by the U.S. government touting the alleged achievements of President Donald Trump.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last day of summer in San Francisco

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Pete Harvey @peterharveydigital.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nice blog about a study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social "he’s guessing [editors and studio heads] see the climate crisis as just another social/political issue... You sprinkle some attention on climate, and then you’re allowed to forget about it for a good long while."

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@sammyroth.bsky.social: "My experience as a voracious news consumer is that most journalists covering extreme weather fail to make the climate connection. And even when they do, it’s a passing mention, not central to the story."

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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot

The climate silence is coming from inside the house.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK. Huge baseball fan here, and I've also backpacked the Teton Crest Trail. Building a baseball stadium at a national park is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It's insane that MLB would ask, and worse that the National Park Service would consider Grand Teton.

washingtonpost.com

Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park

Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bright side of El Niño? California will hopefully capture a lot of groundwater (and reservoir water) to sustain the state through dry times: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

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Will El Niño have an upside? California tries to capitalize on big storms

El Niño could unleash major storms and flooding. It also could bring precious water to drought-afflicted California.

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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker... 1/ "Schneider-Mayerson suspects there may be an unspoken “cultural #climate consensus” at work, in which media gatekeepers have concluded that global warming deserves no more than a sliver of our collective attention spans." @sammyroth.bsky.social

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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot

The climate silence is coming from inside the house.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Intriguing new study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social finds New Yorker short stories rarely feature climate change — about as often as mass-market films, believe it or not. There's no censorship, no climate hushing. Wrote about what might be going on: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker...

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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot

The climate silence is coming from inside the house.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Missed this last month: Amazon is funding a gas plant in Texas that could be America's most polluting power plant, in terms of carbon emissions. It would power a data center, of course. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/c... via @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social

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New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The administration is pitching LNG to countries whose leaders increasingly see renewables as the future because Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran crystallized the dangers of relying on imported fossil fuels." Good stuff from @justingerdes.bsky.social: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trumps-energ...

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Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda is only making renewables more attractive – at home and abroad

The Trump administration is pushing LNG exports, while his war in Iran is driving up energy prices at home and abroad. More leaders are turning to renewables as a salve for fossil fuel volatility.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot

The climate silence is coming from inside the house.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got another CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES publishing in the morning. Will be my 98th edition since launching 11 months ago. Regular reminder that if you like my work I hope you will consider a paid subscription (and please keep subscribing if you already do). Thank you that is all!

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"History will decide whether he will prove the worst Interior secretary of all time. But it’s already clear that he is by far the most disappointing one." Short, sweet, perfect Doug Burgum takedown by @landdesk.bsky.social: www.hcn.org/articles/how...

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How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country News

Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.

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