banner
LightNews
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney
@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
10K followers 1.4K following 1.9K posts

Professor, Environmental Studies🌎 San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com 📍Popeloutchom, Monterey Bay 🌅🦦 .. more

Videos
Environmental science 33%
Energy 20%
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Jul 16
The sagebrush rebel revival, my latest in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...
The sagebrush rebel revival
Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that pr...
thebulletin.org
27 59

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

calandscapeart.bsky.social
Larry Darnell @calandscapeart.bsky.social · 4h
San Lorenzo river sunset Santa Cruz #Scape #sunset #clouds
#Art #weareroamers
#Landscape #river #solitude
#Photography #Nature #PhotographersofBluesky
#ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #TheWildImages #blueskyartshow #landscapephotography
1 24

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

phdsurfbum.bsky.social
PhDsurfbum @phdsurfbum.bsky.social · 5h
I was going to be a frog for Halloween. But costumes are all of a sudden really hard to get a hold of
2 3 26

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h
Archiving! Wild that article uses the words collision and crash over and over.
1

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h
My hope is they meant to convey how hard they were thrown, but poorly worded for a story about the violence of automobiles.
8

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

lumpawaroomd.bsky.social
Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 5h
This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment
23 42 380

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

kellyhereid.bsky.social
Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 5h
Driver hit two people, one of them is pregnant, the other thrown 20ft, and the headline leads with WINDSHIELD DAMAGE

@thewaroncars.bsky.social
berkeleyscanner.com
The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com · 9h
BREAKING: A driver struck two pedestrians, including a pregnant woman, near UC Berkeley on Friday, sending both to Highland Hospital.
'Major windshield damage': 2 people struck near UC Berkeley
Both pedestrians, one of whom is pregnant, were rushed to Highland Hospital, according to early reports.
www.berkeleyscanner.com
4 12 56

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

cortanav.bsky.social
Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 5h
When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game
Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea
44 430 2.8K

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h
If folks remember back in 2010, we got a typhoon recurve rainstorm that dumped to 8 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz mountains about same days of the month in October. #CAwx 🌀🌧️
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Might be time to pull out the plants that are growing in our gutters. #CAwx
Precip forecast showing 2 to 3 inches in Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz mountains
1 1 9

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Epic. Must’ve been so cool! Thx for correction, 11 is the solar max cycle.. 22 years includes the full polarity flip, Hale cycle, which can intensify auroras in the hemisphere it is aligned.
2

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
💯
1

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Reminder: Henry Kissinger got a Nobel Peace prize!
robertferry.bsky.social
Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 6h
The Nobel peace prize is kind of worthless at this point. Time to pack it in. Maybe convert it into the Nobel Climate Prize for someone who has demonstrably brought down global emissions through their life’s work.
2 2 19

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

robertferry.bsky.social
Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 6h
The Nobel peace prize is kind of worthless at this point. Time to pack it in. Maybe convert it into the Nobel Climate Prize for someone who has demonstrably brought down global emissions through their life’s work.
12

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Nice! Light pollution is why we went out to Año Nuevo, far enough West to get around it. In the May event, we were fogged in, so I went to my haunt in Quail Hollow. Got some pretty neat pictures, but the light pollution from Silicon Valley is so bright. Our dark skies are to the west and south.
2

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Blue sky compression out here breaking my heart again @jay.bsky.team, but there are a decent amount of stars in this picture for being on the coast.
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
One year ago, took the kids out to Año Nuevo see faint aurora borealis over the coastal prairie.. Given we are exiting the solar maximum, might not see this again til the next cycle peaks in about 22 years.
6

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Our neighbors have a little aquatic pond, and somehow those plants reproduce in our gutters and invite mosses and a whole micro-biome.
Plant-moss mini ecosystem shaped like a gutter Aquatic Plants shaped like gutters with a lot of root
2 5

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h
Might be time to pull out the plants that are growing in our gutters. #CAwx
Precip forecast showing 2 to 3 inches in Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz mountains
2 2 20

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
Oh dang, I gotta get to dryer skies to see an aurora sometime. We never saw those pillars! Gorgeous.
1 3

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
One year ago, took the kids out to Año Nuevo see faint aurora borealis over the coastal prairie.. Given we are exiting the solar maximum, might not see this again til the next cycle peaks in about 22 years.
4 1 46

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
The Political Economy of the Just Transition now has 1400 citations. Here are 1400 papers on the political economy of the just transition. scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=b...
6

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
Today CFA sued CalState over disclosure of Cal State LA faculty personal information to Trump administration. www.calfac.org/cfa-sues-csu...
2 16

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

jaysawant.bsky.social
Jay @jaysawant.bsky.social · 12h
After billions of dollars worth projects terminated last week, there is news about a probable second round of terminations. People in the power/energy space are just fed up at this moment. Soon they will be looking at other countries for work. Great job, USA!
1 4 8

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, there have been a few projects that have been withdrawn over the years, and they specify it’s withdrawn in eplanning. So a bit odd label. What you’re suggesting makes sense.
1

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 15h
All to say that I think what matters to inform the politics here is why the project was canceled, which we don’t know for sure. Was it canceled by Interior? Was it the tax policy changes in the big beautiful bill that caused developers to exit? Pretty big difference for how you move forward.
2

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 16h
fwiw, bsky.app/profile/dust...
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
The Esmeralda seven solar project IMO was kind of a shit show. 100 square miles of public lands with rare plants, to be disc and rolled.. they had no water or water rights for dust control. No water in Nevada, no solar. No substation, no offtaker (even w/NVEnergy proposed transmission line nearby).
1 1 2

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 18h
The reason solar projects in Nevada
are particularly vulnerable to Trump tax credit cancellation is because developers were planning on an additional 10% ITC bonus for being in an energy community, atop the 30%. And if using domestic manufacturer, another 10%.
Trump's policies, according to NV Energy's July 28 waiver request, "may have created significant challenges for solar and wind developers, especially for projects on land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management." "The request suggests that developers may abandon renewable energy projects that are no longer feasible," Utility Dive reported Tuesday. "Projects with solar or wind components make up nearly 80% of NV Energy's interconnection queue."
1 2 5

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Melanie C. Green

jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18h
Government shutdowns offer a rare opportunity to un-submerge the submerged state. Something Democrats could/should be doing is every day of shutdown, pick some agency and focus on it for the day. Highlight what it does and what we're losing each day their staff are furloughed.
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
A park employee, who spoke with SFGATE on the condition of anonymity to protect their job, said they know of only one wilderness ranger working the entire park. And technically, that person is not even a ranger, the employee said, but a volunteer.
sfgate.com
SFGATE @sfgate.com · 1d
"It's the Wild Wild West."
3 62 200

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 18h
☀️🔌💡 #YouHadOneJob 😂
johnsmillie42.bsky.social
John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 19h
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/big-green/ca...

A rare reversal! An article about solar thermal where the thumbnail picture is about PV.
California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah…
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org
1 1 6

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

johnsmillie42.bsky.social
John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 19h
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/big-green/ca...

A rare reversal! An article about solar thermal where the thumbnail picture is about PV.
California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah…
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org
5 4 24

dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h
The New York Times reported he was paid $80,000 a year for that lobbying activity and he was publicly berating Dianne Feinstein for proposing a national monument that blocked many of the 19 power towers BrightSource had planned in California. bsky.app/profile/dust...
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Jan 24
End of an era. Arguably Ivanpah was outdated by the time it was build because of its lack of storage and reliance on natural gas (enough to qualify for cap and trade).

I wrote about Ivanpah, BrightSource, and RFK Jr. in my book Solar Power.🏜️🔌💡
BrightSource filed 19 proposals for CSP towers, many in what today is Mojave Trails national monument. Solar power cover, silhouette of person stand over a solar panel.
1 8