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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 1d

Sorry, just to clarify: I thought Project Cypress (the Louisiana Climeworks/Heirloom project) was planning to inject CO2 underground without any connection to enhanced oil recovery. Is that wrong? Or did something change?

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 5d

I think maybe we're talking past one another here

Agreed that parking lots and minimums are bad, more housing especially near transit and in coastal communities is good

I am personally more interested in whether Newsom signs SB 79 than assessing the CCC's connection to refinery fires

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 5d

yeah I'm pretty sure Standard Oil developed this site like 100 years ago, well before the CCC even existed

here is our friend wikipedia with a visual

ye old-timey photo of the Standard Oil refinery in El Segundo, c1920 and perched on the otherwise-picturesque bluffs of southern California, care of the wonder of contemporary civilization that is Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Segundo,_California#/media/File:StandardOil1920.jpg

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 8d

Happy to be a sounding board if I can help with anything, just DM me if a conversation would be useful.

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 12d

New Good Authority post by me

goodauthority.org/news/china-u...

China updates its climate commitments, in disappointing fashion

But China remains a key player in climate politics, unlike the U.S.

goodauthority.org

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 13d

(I tried to take Josh there a year or two ago but it was closed unexpectedly that night)

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 13d

It is so so good. My personal favorite in a city with many incredible options.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 13d

Oooooh that does look good … we used to go to the amazing pizza guy who was in that spot a few years back.

Remind me, did I ever get you into Mama Maris down in the excelsior?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24d

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 26d

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 26d

That's a really nice summary.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 29d

Reading old Bloom County comics while growing up really did prepare me for this moment.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 29d

Happy “well actually we don’t technically know the end of California’s legislative session yet” day to all who celebrate

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.

This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

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Matthew Gidden @gidden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

www.nature.com

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · Aug 29

but it's true

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · Aug 25

I sent a reporter to you!

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · Aug 24

I'll take "Studying under participants in which historical energy policy debates accidentally turned you into a climate economist?" for $400, isaac

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · Aug 24

we are not living in the best of all possible worlds, isaac

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