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Stefanie Ritoper

@sritoper.bsky.social
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Consumer of foods you can eat w/one hand while running after two kids. Currently @industriouslabs.bsky.social, formerly @LAist.com, @UCLALabor.bsky.social

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
For decades, "competitiveness" has been a foundation of U.S. policymaking—a zero-sum race to dominate others. What if "beating China" isn't the point? What if the goal is… supporting American workers and protecting the environment? Our report, but first a 🧵 www.americanprogress.org/article/no-m...
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No More Reacting: An Argument for a Clean Industrial Policy—and Against Competitiveness as an Organizing Economic Principle
Moving beyond the failures of the Trump administration, the United States will need to embrace a strategy for fighting the climate crisis that prioritizes values such as support for working people and...
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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An AI-generated flood of comments killed clean air rules in SoCal that would have expanded pollution-free heat pumps. This manipulation of the public process is "deeply disturbing" and undermines legitimate democratic participation as the region considers 1146/1146.1. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Join us to explore the Industrial Equity Mapper! 📊 🗓 2/19 ⏰ 1pm PT / 4pm ET Learn how to leverage rigorous data + powerful community stories that document the health and economic realities that people living near industrial facilities face. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Explore the Industrial Equity Mapper. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
We’re currently witnessing growing efforts to suppress information about how industrial pollution affects real people and real communities. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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Monica Embrey @monicaembrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
California's INDIGO program was created to both help decarbonize industrial facilities and benefit the grid. @industriouslabs.bsky.social's Teresa Cheng details to @volts.wtf how Gov. Newsom can sign AB1280 today to expand this program, benefiting biz & consumers www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-cle...
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How to clean up beer brewing and other low-temperature industries
Teresa Cheng and Richard Hart join me to discuss how to decarbonize industries that run on industrial boilers, like beer and paper.
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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
‼️ A former #aluminum smelter worker's voice, front and center: Dalton Ezell’s op-ed in @thehill.com spotlights the human side of plant closures and what a reinvested, modern aluminum industry could mean for local communities: Check out this must-read piece: thehill.com/opinion/5524...
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Hilary Lewis @hilarylewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thank you to @tkovach.bsky.social from Mayor @justinmbibb.bsky.social's @sustainablecle.bsky.social for his kind words about @industriouslabs.bsky.social's report on Cleveland's Climate Action Plan. The city's *bold & achievable* plan requires action at the Cleveland Works coal-based steel mill 🧵
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Report: Cleveland can't meet climate goals without changes at Cleveland Works
The City of Cleveland will not be able to reach its stated carbon emissions reduction goals due to emissions from just one facility—Cleveland-Cliffs’ Cleveland Works steel mill—according to a new repo...
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇
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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Industrial Demonstrations Program may be cut by DOGE. The IDP granted $6 billion to manufacturing projects to deploy energy efficient tech estimated to create tens of thousands of new jobs. If tariffs are supposed to jumpstart American manufacturing, why are we defunding the IDP?
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Stefanie Ritoper @sritoper.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There’s something about being on here that’s feels kinda … nostalgic?
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LAist @laist.com · 15/11/2024
And that number includes us! 👋
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