Stefanie Ritoper

No More Reacting: An Argument for a Clean Industrial Policy—and Against Competitiveness as an Organizing Economic Principle Moving beyond the failures of the Trump administration, the United States will need to embrace a strategy for fighting the climate crisis that prioritizes values such as support for working people and...

For decades, "competitiveness" has been a foundation of U.S. policymaking—a zero-sum race to dominate others.
What if "beating China" isn't the point? What if the goal is… supporting American workers and protecting the environment? Our report, but first a 🧵

www.americanprogress.org/article/no-m...

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

An AI-generated flood of comments killed clean air rules in SoCal that would have expanded pollution-free heat pumps. This manipulation of the public process is "deeply disturbing" and undermines legitimate democratic participation as the region considers 1146/1146.1. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Explore the Industrial Equity Mapper. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. We’re currently witnessing growing efforts to suppress information about how industrial pollution affects real people and real communities. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

Join us to explore the Industrial Equity Mapper! 📊

🗓 2/19
⏰ 1pm PT / 4pm ET

Learn how to leverage rigorous data + powerful community stories that document the health and economic realities that people living near industrial facilities face. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

How to clean up beer brewing and other low-temperature industries Teresa Cheng and Richard Hart join me to discuss how to decarbonize industries that run on industrial boilers, like beer and paper.

California's INDIGO program was created to both help decarbonize industrial facilities and benefit the grid. @industriouslabs.bsky.social's Teresa Cheng details to @volts.wtf how Gov. Newsom can sign AB1280 today to expand this program, benefiting biz & consumers

www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-cle...

‼️ A former #aluminum smelter worker's voice, front and center: Dalton Ezell’s op-ed in @thehill.com spotlights the human side of plant closures and what a reinvested, modern aluminum industry could mean for local communities: Check out this must-read piece: thehill.com/opinion/5524...

Report: Cleveland can't meet climate goals without changes at Cleveland Works The City of Cleveland will not be able to reach its stated carbon emissions reduction goals due to emissions from just one facility—Cleveland-Cliffs’ Cleveland Works steel mill—according to a new repo...

Thank you to @tkovach.bsky.social from Mayor @justinmbibb.bsky.social's @sustainablecle.bsky.social for his kind words about @industriouslabs.bsky.social's report on Cleveland's Climate Action Plan.

The city's *bold & achievable* plan requires action at the Cleveland Works coal-based steel mill 🧵

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

The Industrial Demonstrations Program may be cut by DOGE.

The IDP granted $6 billion to manufacturing projects to deploy energy efficient tech estimated to create tens of thousands of new jobs.

If tariffs are supposed to jumpstart American manufacturing, why are we defunding the IDP?

There’s something about being on here that’s feels kinda … nostalgic?

And that number includes us! 👋