EPA plans to roll back GHG reporting—just as we learn US transport emissions have cost the US economy $68B: zenodo.org/records/1708...

The proposal isn't deregulation, it’s a tax on Americans through unchecked pollution.

With the EPA targeting the Endangerment Finding, @ccallahan45.bsky.social, Alex Gottlieb, & I conducted an end-to-end attribution of climate damages from U.S. power sector emissions.

The result: $78 billion in climate losses to the U.S. economy over 1973–2023.

See here: zenodo.org/records/1687...

See below, from the article itself (rather than AI) — you should read it!

I would gently offer that creating human benefit does not absolve you of the harms you also create. One can see that, in say, the pharmaceutical industry being held to account for the opioid crisis.

We are—as a nation—intentionally blinding ourselves at the precise moment we need to see our planetary insult most clearly.

This headline is an astounding (and gross) editorial sleight of hand.

Water memories are short in the American West. Just two years after the 2020–23 drought, the Southwest drifts back to its climatically preferred state: drought.

This 2021 op-ed feels relevant as we approach the 2025 dry season with low snowpack and reservoirs: shorturl.at/Uvsyv

A low-grade pan-continental drought has emerged across the US over the last several months, with 49 states experiencing moderate or worse drought. Global warming makes the exceptional the rule, stressing emergency management practices: shorturl.at/dhVWW

As the governments of the world commit humanity to sailing by 1.5°C, a friendly reminder that our level of societal risk aversion—not science—remains the major uncertainty in setting the carbon budget. From Mathez & Smerdon, 2018, itself adapted from Meinshausen et al., 2009.