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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 17d

So, let's say, save $50k by going to CAVA instead of paying DHS?

www.theverge.com/report/78228...

Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty

Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass.

www.theverge.com

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 29d

Starbucks-obsessed 4 year old, who has never seen the movie but has suffered through the soundtrack on the rare occasion I get to pick what's on the radio:

"can you tell me a cake pop demon hunters story?"

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Sep 1

Share it here when you're ready. Definitely need more Approps law scholarship!

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Sep 1

and yet also a large part of recent cost increases is on the distribution side.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Makes sense. Seems like then there is a way to highlight clean energy support while loudly opposing certain energy restrictions.

And maybe opens door to characterizing GOP anti-climate obsession (anti-solar/wind) as leading to cost increases for purely ideological reasons (GOP's version of "woke")

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

And to be clear, I'm talking about energy/climate qua IRA not opposition to fraking. Though of course that then raises the question of why anti-climate is "good" rather than like Senimas corporatist heterodoxy.

Feels like there's just a lot of handwaving on that issue in particular.

Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

One piece that I'd love to see more discussion here is why "climate" and "energy" have been consistently thrown into the category of helpful to take heterodox positions. They're not social issues (or, I guess if they are that raises the second order question of what is social vs econ).

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Aug 3

Very underdeveloped area of academic legal inquiry, imo. Looking forward

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out forcing old, uneconomic coal plants to remain online when the operator wanted to retire them is expensive. Keeping Campbell running in MI has cost $29 million over 5 weeks: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Consumers Energy spends millions keeping coal plant open per fed order

The utility expects the cost to be shared by customers in the north and central regions of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

www.detroitnews.com

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Um... Check my bio. I'm talking about chargers literally at the White House.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 31

We had such a hard time again like 6 EV chargers. Good luck

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Jul 31

The hall of mirrors at Versailles is about 8,000 sqft; the largest room in the palace, the Gallery of Great Battles, is like 16,000 sqft.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · Jul 31

Trump announces that he’s having a 90,000 sq ft event space added to the White House

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Such a doctrinal perspective Madison. It's that the make-up of the Court that created Loper will lead to a different outcome.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Jul 30

Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) | KQED

We explore the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable.

www.kqed.org

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · Jul 30

As someone with several papers cited, I can say that - at least for the sections I know most about - this "report" is full of selectively chosen studies, misrepresentations and half-truths, specious logic, and dated science

Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is an embarrassment for the sterling reputation all of the real scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy. Shame on Chris Wright.

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ah ok - DOE just posted it - www.energy.gov/topics/climate

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 30

This report is just a bunch of warmed over 10 years old climate skeptic talking points.

bsky.app/profile/blka...

Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Jul 29

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 29

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is an embarrassment for the sterling reputation all of the real scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy. Shame on Chris Wright.

Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ah ok - DOE just posted it - www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Climate

This report evaluates existing peer-reviewed literature and government data on climate impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and provides a critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate c...

www.energy.gov

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

Saying otherwise is wrong. And saying otherwise by way of official government regulatory action is contrary to law.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

But, for the record, greenhouse gases significantly contribute to dangerous climate change. Lowering US emissions will be meaningful to Americans and the world, directly and by way of what they mean for technological and international leadership.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 29

There will be lots of debate today about climate action, and how it affects politics and whether Democrats should remain steadfast in their advocacy for it or instead focus on other things (or perhaps even actively disclaim the importance of action) as a path to political power.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 23

One final note. The EO speaks of the importance of transmission (and specifically high voltage transmission). This is extremely correct. We need much more for data centers, reliability etc.

But it's quite ironic to highlight the importance of high voltage transmission today of all days.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 23

One nugget: I think this is the first time a specific threshold is set for the percent of federal $ that triggers NEPA (50%), though many questions remain for how one calculates this (particularly in the context of loans, tax credits, etc).

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Both talk about permitting streamlining through tools like categorical exclusions and FAST-41.

The Trump EO has more on avoiding ESA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, TSCA.

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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Both support data centers and also the generation needed to power them. Biden required carbon-free power sources (wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, hydro, CCS) and storage.

The Trump EO references nat gas, coal, nuclear, and geothermal (not hydro storage or of course wind or solar)

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