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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 🌅🦦

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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...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, I misheard title; it was Ted Bolinger. #NEPA #permittingreform www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjhX...

The Future of NEPA: 2025 and Beyond

YouTube video by ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 9h

Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title.

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Trump Team's plans to exploit public lands follow the blueprint of Reagan's Interior secretary

James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, probably not worth the time. Likely all redacted anyways.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 18h

This is the first time I’ve noticed this particular Executive Order getting cited as a reason for grant termination.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

A bit anti-climactic, but we finally got the termination notice for our Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technology Office grant.

"This project does not effectuate the Department of Energy's priorities of ensuring affordable, reliable, and abundant energy to meet growing demand and/or addresses the national emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 14156.
The Department has reviewed your financial assistance agreement in accordance with this policy and determined that this project is not consistent with this Administration's goals, policies and priorities."

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 19h

Sweet.. I’ll keep an eye out for it!

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 19h

dude!! we were fog free until you brought it up...now look

full moon above mountains with fog in valley below. framed by redwood trees. santa cruz mtns

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 19h

Ack! No smoke this direction. Marine layer a bit taller today, sounds like smoke got caught in inversion.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

The oldest wildfire I can find locally in Santa Cruz mountains was reported in a newspaper from Bangor Maine.. There were no local SC newspapers at the time and I was curious why the news was reported in Maine and sleuthing found massive fires in 1825 after periods of heavy logging.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks for sharing Glen. We are in the fog.

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 20h

full moon rising

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Let’s build a happy little cloud. ☁️
Let’s build some happy little trees. 🌲

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Last year, if I recall, it was 100°F in Felton.

CACoastFire @centralcoastfire.bsky.social · 20h

Burn conditions are looking promising this year! 🤞🏻🔥

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CACoastFire @centralcoastfire.bsky.social · 20h

Burn conditions are looking promising this year! 🤞🏻🔥

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

We estimated over 20 terawatts of solar on 170 million acres of abandoned and marginal farm land.. another 600 GW around center-pivot agrivoltaics. rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 21h

Very steep terrain too! Creates a neat perspective.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 21h

Prescribed fire demo in an old growth coastal redwood grove. #GoodFire #RxFire 🔥🌲

Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks @thatsmypark.bsky.social · 1d

🔥The Central Coast Good Fire Fair is back!
Join us on Sat, Oct 11, at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP for learning, demos & family fun. Meet the people who use fire to restore & protect our landscapes—CA State Parks, CAL FIRE, Indigenous groups, & the Central Coast PBA.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

Well, folks, personal news: After 7 years, today is my last day with @latimes.com.

It's been a privilege working with some of the world's best journalists at my hometown paper. Thank you to everyone who's read and supported my work.

I'm not done telling climate stories. More news to come.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Sammy on a great run of fabulous work. Looking forward to hearing what you do next.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

I remember at least two proposed green/clean cement plants locally. One at Moss Landing, and another at Davenport.

Here are some random facts about California cement! bsky.app/profile/dust...

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Jan 20

Davenport once hosted the largest cement plant in the world. The pier shipped much of the dry bulk cement for rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, supplied cement for the dam at Hetch Hetchy, about half of the cement for the Panama Canal.

Black and white photo of a pier at davenport to deliver bulk dry cement to ships.

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 1d

No-so-fun fact: California operates some of the dirtiest cement plants in the world. Via GEI and ClimateWorks ... www.climateworks.org/wp-content/u...

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Check it out! OPEN ACCESS!
#energy #USpol #EU #China #ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Germany #Protest #coaltoclean #peat #COP30

Stability and #Politicization in #Climate #Governance
- www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

At the risk of angry-posting, I hope we learn something from this given the *extensive* environmental justice and environmental concessions that were made to "protect" the programs

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
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