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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 8h

Let’s stop forcing California customers to pay for their utilities' advertising and political lobbying costs.

@governor.ca.gov: sign #AB1167!

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 8h

It's a little thing but Hilary does a great job explaining how steel is made with a very quick chemistry lesson. Dr. Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social would be proud.

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 8h

Terrific @climateone.org pod on hydrogen, featuring my colleague @hilarylewis.bsky.social. Hydrogen is overhyped, but there are some applications where it still makes sense, notably steel and ammonia production for fertilizer. listen.climateone.org/z7oIxKJV?sid...

De-Hyping Hydrogen

For decades, hydrogen has held promise as a revolutionary tool in the clean energy transition. It can be a fuel and energy carrier, and when made with renewable energy and burned in a fuel cell, its o...

listen.climateone.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Say it ain't so, @sammyroth.bsky.social!

Commentary: Leaving the L.A. Times, and a new direction for Boiling Point

I'm not done telling stories about climate. And neither are my wonderful friends and colleagues.

www.latimes.com

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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 1d

Energy access is at the heart of the U.S. #aluminum industry crisis. Without clean, affordable power, we’re not just losing smelters — we’re losing good union jobs like Dalton’s.

His story in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/5524...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 3d

Yah, these are all excellent examples of ways to talk about solutions. Is the broader point that we shouldn't talk about climate though?

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have suggestions on how to more effectively communicate emissions reductions?

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 3d

No-so-fun fact: California operates some of the dirtiest cement plants in the world. Via GEI and ClimateWorks ... www.climateworks.org/wp-content/u...

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 3d

Gov signed our bill. 👍👍👍

Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 14d

Important piece from our partners at @industriouslabs.bsky.social and the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 104 about AB1280, a bill that would supercharge the installation of clean, efficient heating technologies.

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 15d

www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 4d

EPA cites public comments in decision: "Upon review of this
and information received in public comments and at the public hearing, the EPA does not believe that the currently available information supports a conclusion that regulated parties would face significant immediate compliance challenges."

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 4d

Great news: The EPA is withdrawing its proposal to delay the implementation of hazardous air pollutant standards for coke ovens. Very good news for breathers in steel communities. It's nice to win! www.epa.gov/system/files...

www.epa.gov

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 4d

Great news: The EPA is withdrawing its proposal to delay the implementation of hazardous air pollutant standards for coke ovens. Very good news for breathers in steel communities. It's nice to win! www.epa.gov/system/files...

www.epa.gov

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Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Mendoza, Business Manager of IBEW Local 684 (@ibew-9th.bsky.social), makes the case for why investing in clean manufacturing is a win-win for the Central Valley. By signing AB1280, @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social can secure good-paying, skilled jobs for our communities. sjvsun.com/view/moderni...

Modernizing the Central Valley manufacturing sector is a win for good jobs, public health, and the economy

Assembly Bill 1280 offers the Central Valley a rare chance to retain high-value industrial jobs and operators while delivering on clean energy goals, writes IBEW's Mike Mendoza.

sjvsun.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8d

Delta was chosen as the site after a long drawn out fight over the #Kaiparowits power plant. First proposed at an enormous 6 GW, Kaiparowits would've sat atop the largest undeveloped coal field in the southwest. Today that coal is in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8d

When the Intermountain Power Project was proposed for Delta, Utah, activists called it the "Acid Rain Plant"
- High Country News, 1984

Comic drawing from HCN of Acid Rain Plant.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8d

When the Intermountain Power Project was proposed for Delta, Utah, activists called it the "Acid Rain Plant"
- High Country News, 1984

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 7d

"The good news is that solutions are ready to go: Industrial heat pumps and thermal batteries can clean up manufacturing today, and we can seize this opportunity with Assembly Bill 1280." Let's get this done @gavinnewsom.bsky.social!

Read more at: www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 7d

US abdication of leadership doesn't mean we can't make progress.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 7d

In today’s @latimes.com: My column on California’s last coal plant, which is finally closing next month. It’s located in Utah and operated by the city of Los Angeles. I spent a few days poking around: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 7d

Cement decarb, slowly but surely, is taking off.

Airport becomes first large-scale user of LC3 cement in India

www.globalcement.com

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