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Amanda Zerbe
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Environmental lawyer @ Stanford Environmental Law Clinic | beginning crocheter | views my own (and ever-changing) | she/her
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We can now add cancer to the harms of gas stoves. Dem leadership that puts protecting children’s health over gas industry lobbying sorely needed. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...
Gas stoves nearly double children’s cancer risk, Stanford study finds
Stanford study finds gas stoves emit benzene, nearly doubling cancer risk in children — especially in homes with poor ventilation.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A seemingly improbable climate lawsuit that I wrote about in 2019 is finally headed to court in Germany tomorrow.

A long read about what it means to hold polluters accountable: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany. (Published 2019)
Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fantastic new op-ed on factory farming and antibiotic resistance in the Hill by SLS student Zoe Robertson and colleagues at RegLab -- thehill.com/opinion/5156...
thehill.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Here's how to cover things that are illegal:

(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not

Truth sandwich, extra mustard
Breaking news: The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this article since I read it. A real testament to the power of writing to change hearts and minds.
This firsthand account of what it’s like to be homeless in America – by a former Boston Globe art critic – is as good as everyone says it is.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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This firsthand account of what it’s like to be homeless in America – by a former Boston Globe art critic – is as good as everyone says it is.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Got mad enough about this that I turned this thread into a blog.

Kamala Harris did not engage in overt identity politics.

Donald Trump did. It probably helped him.

And yet, pundits like Weiss, Stephens & Dowd treat identity politics *only* as a failed Dem tactic.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
November 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Check out this clever depiction of how land is used in the United States. Cows!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...
November 10, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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I understand we’re having another spike of new arrivals from That Other Place, so welcome, here’s a celebratory fruit basket, please be aware that orcas are our national mammal here, they embody the “fuck it, we wreckin’ yachts” revolutionary proletariat spirit we prize so highly
November 7, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Decided to go back in time and check out my tweets in the aftermath of Trump's 2016 win.

Found this projection of Trump's effect on US CO2 emissions, so I plugged in actuals up to 2023.

Don't think the projection was 'wrong' so much as people worked bloody hard to make it wrong.
November 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Two of my CEPP team, Kalina Yang and Amanda Zerbe, wrote a great post on the need for and promise of better measurement of dairy methane emissions. We believe that the lack of actual measurement of emissions is a key problem for the LCFS and for compliance with Califronia's CH4 targets.
November 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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We wrote some comments on the California Air Resources Board proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Incredible team including Marelda Ahumada-Paras, Anela Arifi, Chelsea Pardini, Will Scott and Amanda Zerbe. Mixed methods applied energy and climate policy at its best! A thread...
February 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Hey recent data science PhDs, we are hiring two postdocs. Come work with us on cutting edge causal inference methods and solve real world problems in insurance and wildfire management:

woods.stanford.edu/wildfire-ins...

woods.stanford.edu/wildfire-ris...
December 14, 2023 at 3:45 AM
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My colleague Debbie Sivas' take on emission reductions in the industrial sector: we need to start now.

law.stanford.edu/2023/12/04/w...
We Need Immediate Policy Intervention to Begin Decarbonizing the Industrial Sector | Stanford Law Sc...
As the COP28 Climate Summit got underway in Dubai last week, the independent Rhodium Group issued a sobering report on the climate outlook for the rem
law.stanford.edu
December 6, 2023 at 6:31 PM