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Sanjay Narayan

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Lawyer with an interest in public health, climate, and administrative law. Reticent.

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Jeff St John @jeffstjohn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A federal court has ruled that DOE acted illegally to force a Michigan coal plant to stay open last year — a potentially major blow to the Trump administration's use of 'emergency' power to prop up aging, costly fossil fuel power plants: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky
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Court rules that Trump can’t force a Michigan coal plant to keep…
A long-awaited court decision finds fault with the DOE’s use of "emergency" powers to force aging, costly, polluting power plants to run past their…
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14/02/2026
The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/01/2026
‘Politics and political life require not only a future, but a future in which what we do today can matter. Questions of meaning and mattering are unavoidable in a life lived in the shadow of end times.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social on how we think about the end of the world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Geoff Mann · Good Failures: With a Whimper
Does anything matter if we’re done for? We are not the first to wonder. Contemporary fictions are preoccupied with...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/12/2025
Federal courts have unanimously rejected President Trump's unconstitutional attempt to end birthright citizenship. ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang will be defending birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
urban juncos had developed shorter, stubbier beaks—but during the pandemic, the beaks of juncos born on UCLA campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
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How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I'm can't quite remember the word for it... You know, when you eschew market forces for commands from the White House that control which plants are open and which are closed... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
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Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants
If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
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John Elwood @johnpelwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere grew at a record 3.75 ppm last year -- a jump 27% bigger than the previous record increase. The best explanation: forests and soils are so stressed by climate change they're losing the ability to absorb our emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Is the planet losing one of its best ways to slow climate change?
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose last year at the fastest rate on record. The spike has scientists worried that more and more carbon is coming from natural sources.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Princeton President Chris Eisgruber continues to be such a crucial voice - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 04/09/2025 · 39m
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
editors of The Atlantic are welcome to visit our galleries but please let us know if you're accidentally in the museum group chat instead
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Chef’s kiss
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Kirti Datla @kirtidatla.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In re: absolutely nothing going on in the world: The SLA team at Earthjustice is looking for an early-career attorney to join us as an Associate Counsel. DC preferred. 1-5 years of experience including any clerkships. Salary is based on experience; range is $106,400-$125,300 in DC.
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Associate Counsel, Strategic Legal Advocacy
Earthjustice is looking for an early-career attorney to join the Strategic Legal Advocacy team as an Associate Counsel.
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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John Elwood @johnpelwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today's change said the Richardson Waiver was "contrary to the clear text of the APA." Turns out it was adopted in response to a 72-page report and recommendation from the Administrative Conference of the United States which noted that notice and comment improved agency decisionmaking.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Between 1970 and 2019, aggregate emissions of common air pollutants dropped 77 percent, while the U.S. gross domestic product grew 285 percent." If you're into that sort of thing. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...
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The Clean Air Act and the Economy | US EPA
Since 1970, cleaner air and a growing economy have gone hand in hand. The Act has created market opportunities that have helped to inspire innovation in cleaner technologies for which the United State...
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New Attorney General policy: DOJ is there to advance the President's views, and we're not going to let DOJ lawyers refuse to sign their names to briefs that make nutty Trump arguments. prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resou...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#SCOTUS grants cert. to review the en banc Fifth Circuit’s ruling that the way the FCC administers the Universal Service Fund violates the non-delegation doctrine. A *major* separation-of-powers case for later this term, and yet more of the Court’s docket coming from outlier Fifth Circuit rulings:
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/11/2024
The 2024 Global Carbon Budget was just released! Unfortunately despite hopes emissions might peak, both fossil CO2 and total CO2 emissions reached new record highs. I cover details w/ Pierre Friedlingstein (@PFriedling) at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record. Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).
Time series from 1880 to 2023 showing steadily rising global temperatures and an estimate record for 2024.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
After sitting on emergency applications challenging the Biden admin.’s “Good Neighbor” pollution rules for almost two months, #SCOTUS … schedules them for oral argument in February. This will be only the third argument the Court has heard on emergency applications since 1971.
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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
:tap tap. Is this bluesky thing on?: Oh hey. DOE released guidance on how you can help us decide where to designate NEITCs (for those in the know). Aka transmission corridors that will unlock federal financing and permitting for future transmission projects.
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Energy Department Releases Guidance to Identify High-Priority Areas for Transmission Development
The U.S. Department of Energy, Grid Deployment Office has issued final guidance for the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC) Designation Process.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 15/11/2023
Great piece from @katemac.bsky.social in @heatmap.news today on what the oil industry's actions reveal about their own views of the energy transition. heatmap.news/economy/oil-...
Chart showing the share of oil industry cash spending, showing the growing role of dividends, stock buybacks, and net debt repayments. Oil and gas capital expenditures fell below 50% in 2022, down from above 80% in the late-2000s into the mid-2010s.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
ICYMI: I wrote about how Biden has been quietly reforming our administrative state in ways that will reinforce our democracy. He's doing this just as the GOP is formulating plans to use the administrative state to dismantle our democracy. newrepublic.com/article/1752...
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The Quiet Resurgence of the Administrative State
The Biden administration has taken some bold steps to bolster the civil service after Trump’s attempt to transform it into an instrument of authoritarianism.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Ca5 deals a significant blow to administration policy on spent nuclear waste, holding that the NRC has no authority to license a temporary waste disposal site. Major questions doctrine pokes its head in www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2…
Clips for the attached opinion, about Bullcreek and the major questions doctrine.
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