Silvio Marcacci
@silviomarcacci.bsky.social
Senior Director of Communications, @energyinnovation.org. Board Advisor, @theicct.org + @co2bc.bsky.social. Tired dad.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Pinned
Evergreen reminder the climate crisis is being done to us by fossil fuel corporations. They're literally burning our children's future to make billions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Evergreen reminder the climate crisis is being done to us by fossil fuel corporations. They're literally burning our children's future to make billions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump is lying to us, and his lies are being laundered by complicit media
My latest at Quitting Carbon: Despite extensive evidence to the contrary, the White House wants us to think it cares about energy affordability. Based on the Trump administration's actions over the past year, don’t believe the spin: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/the-trump-ad... 🔌💡
The Trump administration just laundered its bogus energy affordability talking points through Politico’s White House team
Despite extensive evidence to the contrary, the White House wants us to think it cares about energy affordability. Based on the Trump administration's actions over the past year, don’t believe the spi...
www.quittingcarbonmedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Trump is lying to us, and his lies are being laundered by complicit media
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people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 PM
people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us
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The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.
January 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
"Done right, data centers can share in grid costs and actually help lower rates for everyone. Studies show that for every gigawatt of new large-load demand added to the grid, customer rates could fall by 1% to 2%"
www.newsweek.com/data-centers...
www.newsweek.com/data-centers...
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
"Done right, data centers can share in grid costs and actually help lower rates for everyone. Studies show that for every gigawatt of new large-load demand added to the grid, customer rates could fall by 1% to 2%"
www.newsweek.com/data-centers...
www.newsweek.com/data-centers...
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Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise.
Aloha.
Aloha.
States consider suing fossil fuel industry over insurance hikes
New York and Hawaii could expand the legal battlefield and seek to hold companies liable for disasters that cause premiums to rise.
www.eenews.net
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise.
Aloha.
Aloha.
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People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
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“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article I, Section 9.
Article I, Section 9.
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 AM
“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article I, Section 9.
Article I, Section 9.
Forcing this coal plant to stay open will cost local utility Tri-State $21 million in just 90 days - that gets passed directly to homeowners and businesses.
"Our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order" - Tri State CEO
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...
"Our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order" - Tri State CEO
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...
January 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Forcing this coal plant to stay open will cost local utility Tri-State $21 million in just 90 days - that gets passed directly to homeowners and businesses.
"Our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order" - Tri State CEO
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...
"Our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order" - Tri State CEO
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...
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If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.
Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."
January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.
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If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
🔮⚡My annual energy policy predictions column is up!
Predictions from five female leaders in the energy and climate space outline what to expect in 2025.
The 2025 column was eerily prescient - how will this one look in a year?
www.forbes.com/sites/energy...
Predictions from five female leaders in the energy and climate space outline what to expect in 2025.
The 2025 column was eerily prescient - how will this one look in a year?
www.forbes.com/sites/energy...
January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
🔮⚡My annual energy policy predictions column is up!
Predictions from five female leaders in the energy and climate space outline what to expect in 2025.
The 2025 column was eerily prescient - how will this one look in a year?
www.forbes.com/sites/energy...
Predictions from five female leaders in the energy and climate space outline what to expect in 2025.
The 2025 column was eerily prescient - how will this one look in a year?
www.forbes.com/sites/energy...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Trump administration orders Colorado coal plant to stay open for resiliency, ignores that the clunker is already broken down + requires millions of consumer money to fix
bigpivots.com/oh-the-irony...
bigpivots.com/oh-the-irony...
Oh, the irony of Craig No. 1! - Big Pivots
Trump orders Craig coal unit planned for retirement to stay open. But it so happens the unit is broken. Ludicrous says Polis team. Sierra Club challenges basis for emergency declaration.
bigpivots.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump administration orders Colorado coal plant to stay open for resiliency, ignores that the clunker is already broken down + requires millions of consumer money to fix
bigpivots.com/oh-the-irony...
bigpivots.com/oh-the-irony...
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Such a good example of climate adaptation. Smart policy has as much of a role to play here as it does on emissions mitigation www.latimes.com/environment/...
Rocky Mountains get preemptive power shutoffs once reserved for California
Xcel Energy is preparing customers in the Rocky Mountain region for preemptive blackouts to help reduce the risk of wildfires as strong, dry winds threaten to knock down power lines.
www.latimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Such a good example of climate adaptation. Smart policy has as much of a role to play here as it does on emissions mitigation www.latimes.com/environment/...
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They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.
Text of the EO now live on the White House site: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.
Hawley and every other Missouri Congressional Republican voted YES to raise power bills $640 in that state energyinnovation.org/wp-content/u...
"What I do not want to have happen is what has happened in Virginia, where they come in and everybody’s prices go way, way, way up," Hawley said. "That is a bad deal, and I do not want to see that happen in Missouri."
This is also why Virginia voters flipped the state blue in November.
This is also why Virginia voters flipped the state blue in November.
E&E News: Data center boom creates political conundrum for the GOP
President Donald Trump is all in on the artificial intelligence build-out. Other Republicans are being more cautious.
subscriber.politicopro.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hawley and every other Missouri Congressional Republican voted YES to raise power bills $640 in that state energyinnovation.org/wp-content/u...
Climate change is a threat multiplier.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Violence over water resources reaches record levels
The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Climate change is a threat multiplier.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
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Because
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Because
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
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Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...
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I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I mean, this is an execution
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...