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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 1d

I am less than happy that Sen Markey is running. It's not ageism. I just think it's time to let new leaders emerge. We are unfortunately in a unique moment. I'm not sure that many of the current Ds in DC are up for it.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 4d

Within the margin of error for the scale/height-measuring-thing?

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 9d

Sure but as the sun slowly expands and brightens over the next billion or so years before it evaporates all water on Earth, will solar energy potential actually increase?

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 10d

They're called Imagination Engines, Rob.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 10d

Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...

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Do remember to tell people, when you write your article, that the most important message today is that every single day, each one of us lives, we make some impact on the planet, and we can choose what sort of impact we make; what we buy, what we wear, where does it come from? Did it harm the environment when it was made? Did it lead to cruelty to animals like terrible factory farms? Is it cheap because of child slave labor? If we start making ethical choices every day, millions and billions of us, we move towards a better world and a world of citizens who will push governments to make the ethical decisions themselves.

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Jeremy Fisher @jeremyfisher.bsky.social · 11d

Its like the great countdown. This year is 2.0? Looks like 2030 will be 0.0.

Declining coal sales from EIA Form 861M, 2008-2025, showing coal sales to power plants falling from 80 million tons per month to ~25 million tons

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 14d

I like your analysis. But couldn't you say the same about clean energy investors funding climate advocacy orgs?

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 19d

SCOTUS grants cert in a case about whether the President can fire an FTC Commissioner, in which it may soon overrule a 1935 case that held the President may not fire and FTC Commissioner.

It's possible for the Court to hold the President may fire an FTC com wo technically overturning that case...

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 12

Meanwhile, those of us on Humphrey's Executor watch, reload the DC Circuit's opinion page everyday in anticipation of a ruling on the merits in Wilcox.

(Every DC Cir and SCOTUS opinion on who the President can fire has been about prelim injunctions)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Sep 12

The DC Circuit sets an ultra-fast briefing schedule on the bid by Trump to fire Lisa Cook, signaling a likely ruling before next week’s Fed board meeting.

The panel:
Katsas (Trump)
Childs (Biden)
Garcia (Biden)

Losing side could go to SCOTUS by Monday night.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22d

God fucking dammit.

Marissa Gillett is a hero. She pushed back against piratic, insular, greedy utilities and so they went after her -- badgering her, slandering her in the papers, suing, complaining to her boss.

And they won. The utilities won. She has resigned.

Fuck this world.

Governor Lamont Receives Notification From Marissa Gillett Announcing Her Plans To Step Down From PURA

portal.ct.gov

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 24d

What's taking the DC Circuit so long? They supposedly fast-tracked this case back when they heard oral argument on May 18! The court has already written extensively on these issues earlier this year.

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 12

Meanwhile, those of us on Humphrey's Executor watch, reload the DC Circuit's opinion page everyday in anticipation of a ruling on the merits in Wilcox.

(Every DC Cir and SCOTUS opinion on who the President can fire has been about prelim injunctions)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Sep 12

The DC Circuit sets an ultra-fast briefing schedule on the bid by Trump to fire Lisa Cook, signaling a likely ruling before next week’s Fed board meeting.

The panel:
Katsas (Trump)
Childs (Biden)
Garcia (Biden)

Losing side could go to SCOTUS by Monday night.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26d

By the way, the excellent group PowerLines is holding a briefing about this election tomorrow, if you're interested:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: National Implications of 2025 Georgia PSC Election - Virtual Briefing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, PowerLines, a national energy consumer advocacy nonprofit, will host a virtual briefing for national and local reporters on the upcoming 2025 Georgia Public Service C...

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 12

Meanwhile, those of us on Humphrey's Executor watch, reload the DC Circuit's opinion page everyday in anticipation of a ruling on the merits in Wilcox.

(Every DC Cir and SCOTUS opinion on who the President can fire has been about prelim injunctions)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Sep 12

The DC Circuit sets an ultra-fast briefing schedule on the bid by Trump to fire Lisa Cook, signaling a likely ruling before next week’s Fed board meeting.

The panel:
Katsas (Trump)
Childs (Biden)
Garcia (Biden)

Losing side could go to SCOTUS by Monday night.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 10

Law skeeps: can someone explain what’s going on with the the lawsuit between EDF/UCS and the DOE. Why did DOE disband the CWG? Was it to avoid having to turn over documents? What are the implications for the report itself?

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 9

One year ago, Governor Burgum declared Clean Energy Week in North Dakota and boasted that it was among the top producers of wind energy www.governor.nd.gov/sites/www/fi...

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yep - www.eenews.net/articles/uti...

Utilities rebuild an aging lexicon to keep pace with change

The nation's investor-owned electric utilities have settled on a new customer-friendly vocabulary that they hope will influence how their rapidly changing business

www.eenews.net

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 9

I suppose my post was incomplete. The controversy is that the array can produce 160 MW but its output to the transmission network is limited to 80 MW. Walker through in the 50 MW battery, which I didn't understand to be controversial in the first round of this case but maybe I'm misremembering.

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 9

The post-Loper Bright DC Circuit decision about FERC's decision to qualify a 160 MW solar facility under PURPA is finally out. FERC wins again!
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

media.cadc.uscourts.gov

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay allowing President Trump to remove the last Democratic member of Federal Trade Commission while the full Court decides whether to freeze lower-court rulings that had held that her firing was unlawful:

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you let me read it, I will give you an award.

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, although there could be blowback from states.

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 5

The folks over at Statepowerproject.org** -- The world's number one source of info on Federal Power Act preemption cases -- has posted opinion - statepowerproject.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

**me

statepowerproject.wordpress.com

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Federal appeals court shakes up transmission line siting. 3rd Circuit holds PA PUC's permit denial based on lack of need is preempted by PJM's regional planning process.

Opinion is on PACER but not yet posted by 3rd Circuit on its site

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · Sep 4

It seem that my article on the history, present, and, potential future of market governance in the meatpacking industry is out!

The doctrinal focus is on the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 & its use of my white whale: "unfair acts or practices"

northcarolinalawreview.org/wp-content/u...

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