Vincent Nolette
@vxnolette.bsky.social
Fellow @ Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Views are my own.
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"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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"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...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
foreignpolicy.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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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...
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
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
It's hard to imagine a more pressing threat to a clean energy transition, education, policy making, and basic email exchanges than the capital bet on data centers that power chatbots in search of the elusive AGI happening in the US right now
August 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's hard to imagine a more pressing threat to a clean energy transition, education, policy making, and basic email exchanges than the capital bet on data centers that power chatbots in search of the elusive AGI happening in the US right now
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A very different future withered in Boulder a decade ago because this company would fight to overturn a democratic decision demanded by the people of Boulder until they won. Now everyone pays.
Xcel Energy’s building boom, search for profits may send Colorado electricity bills soaring
Xcel Energy's building boom, search for profits may send Colorado electricity bills soaring
Electricity rates could double or even triple for Xcel Energy customers as the company launches an unprecedented spending plan.
coloradosun.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A very different future withered in Boulder a decade ago because this company would fight to overturn a democratic decision demanded by the people of Boulder until they won. Now everyone pays.
Seems now is as good a time as any to break the Bluesky seal. My new article "Climate Preemption and Fossil Fuel Entrenchment" is now available on SSRN and forthcoming in Pace Environmental Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments and criticism very much welcome
Comments and criticism very much welcome
Climate Preemption and Fossil Fuel Entrenchment
<p>Mitigating the worst impacts of climate change demands a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a<i> </i>transition to renewable, low-carbon sources
papers.ssrn.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Seems now is as good a time as any to break the Bluesky seal. My new article "Climate Preemption and Fossil Fuel Entrenchment" is now available on SSRN and forthcoming in Pace Environmental Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments and criticism very much welcome
Comments and criticism very much welcome