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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 22h

I am also losing my mind. What a great end to the week!!

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Emma Fisher @emmafisher.bsky.social · 1d

WE DID IT!!!! Transformative funding for transit, grid upgrades to make 100% possible. I am losing my mind. So proud and happy and also thank goodness ❤️

@climatecabinet.org
@dave.bzky.team
@michealpodgers.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

in the next 5.5 hours, the Illinois lege is gonna be a climate hero or a goat. their call. i vote hero

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 1d

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

States where we have saved transit this year:
Michigan ✅
Illinois ✅
Pennsylvania 🔜

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOD

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

in the next 5.5 hours, the Illinois lege is gonna be a climate hero or a goat. their call. i vote hero

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S TRUE IT HAPPENED. Congrats to the Illinois coalition and @michealpodgers.bsky.social and the rest of the IL team!

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

BIGGEST STATE LEVEL CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025 👇👇👇👇👇

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

You guys they did it! They passed a major grid upgrades bill and SAVED TRANSIT with a $1.3b reform package! Nice work Illinois!

So proud of the @climatecabinet.org team's work in the coalition to help get this done!

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 2d

Best article this election cycle

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter’

How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.

www.semafor.com

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 2d

If so I endorse it

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 2d

Dave is “LFGOOOOO” our official statement on CRGA

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 2d

Real heads know

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 3d

It’s that time of year - Canary Live Bay Area! Come hang out with @volts.wtf @jeffstjohn.bsky.social & more

www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-liv...

Canary Live Bay Area

Eventbrite - Canary Media presents Canary Live Bay Area - Thursday, November 6, 2025 at The Freight, Berkeley, CA. Find event and ticket information.

www.eventbrite.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4d

2. In Georgia, there's very exceptionally statewide races on an off-year; dynamic shaped by some places having local elections & others not.

Right now, 10 biggest blue counties account for 49.9% of the votes cast. Black voters account for 32.2%. (Last year at this time, it was 45% and 25.2%.)

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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 4d

To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute

How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.

www.sightline.org

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 4d

What's happening with electricity prices?? @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I broke it down this week. Check it out ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/posts/jigars...

Fun to do this with Caroline Spears from Climate Cabinet Action and my friends at Deploy Action. Electricity bills are proving to be increasingly important in upcoming gubernatorial and statewide… | ...

Fun to do this with Caroline Spears from Climate Cabinet Action and my friends at Deploy Action. Electricity bills are proving to be increasingly important in upcoming gubernatorial and statewide rac...

www.linkedin.com

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 9d

Virginia early vote turnout is up 50% compared to 2021 👀

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 12d

NextEra's September investor slide deck:
Why build a gas plant when you could build batteries instead?

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 12d

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

3 of America’s Biggest Public Transit Systems Are Teetering on the Brink

Riders in Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area are staring down budget crises, with deep service cuts not far behind.

heatmap.news

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Colorado Renewable Energy Society @corenewable.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight at 6 PM, learn about local Steamboat Springs candidates during the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC)’s virtual Candidate Sustainability Forum.

Register and suggest a question for the forum here: yvsc.org/event/candid...

Candidate Environment & Sustainability Forum

Learn about local candidates during Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC)'s Candidate Sustainability Forum taking place virtually from 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20. The virtual, live forum will f...

yvsc.org

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Latitude Media @latitudemedia.bsky.social · 12d

In his latest article for Latitude Media, @alexckaufman.bsky.social reports that Idaho Power has requested a nearly 1% rate cut in Oregon after retiring a 522 MW coal plant and eliminating related regulatory liabilities.

www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...

After closing coal plants, Idaho Power is the rare utility cutting rates

The utility asked regulators to lower electricity rates in Oregon, even as its peers raise them — and Trump pushes coal as the solution.

www.latitudemedia.com

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 12d

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

www.worldscientific.com

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 12d

19. In general this is a problem for solar: a distributed industry with low barriers to entry, and therefore few large firms, has little lobbying power. Industry associations work against this to advocate for the interests of renewables, against those of consolidated industries like fossil fuels.

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 17d

Georgia Public Service Commission Alert: Election is November 4th. Early voting started this week.
To track early vote in real time, go here: sos.ga.gov/page/electio....
(Look for high turnout in Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Dekalb, Clayton, Henry, Rockdale, Clark, Richmond & Chatham)

Election Data Hub - Turnout | Georgia Secretary of State

Election Turnout data

sos.ga.gov

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 18d

This is so! much!

A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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Caroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 20d

BIG WIN 🔥 Congratulations, ya'll.

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 20d

Good news: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signed the bill! Congrats to @davidpomerantz.bsky.social @earthjustice.org and TURN!

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 26d

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 22d

Even as I wait anxiously to see what @governor.ca.gov does with #AB1167, the bill to get utility political lobbying and PR out of rates, I'm so happy he signed #SB79, over some intense opposition, to build housing near transit.

I hope he has the same courage when standing up to the utilities.

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