Amanda Zerbe

New Paper Analyzes Water Permitting for Confined Animal Facilities in California | Stanford Law School This week, the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, in collaboration with the Climate and Energy Policy Program, released a w

Our intrepid students have a new paper out focused on water permitting for Confined Animal Facilities in CA. They reviewed annual reports for these facilities across regions and found systematic issues with reporting and monitoring. Read their great work here: law.stanford.edu/2026/02/20/n...

Horrifying, must-read post.

Gas stoves nearly double children’s cancer risk, Stanford study finds Stanford study finds gas stoves emit benzene, nearly doubling cancer risk in children — especially in homes with poor ventilation.

We can now add cancer to the harms of gas stoves. Dem leadership that puts protecting children’s health over gas industry lobbying sorely needed. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany. (Published 2019) Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

A seemingly improbable climate lawsuit that I wrote about in 2019 is finally headed to court in Germany tomorrow.

A long read about what it means to hold polluters accountable: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Fantastic new op-ed on factory farming and antibiotic resistance in the Hill by SLS student Zoe Robertson and colleagues at RegLab -- thehill.com/opinion/5156...

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Here's how to cover things that are illegal:

(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not

Truth sandwich, extra mustard

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this article since I read it. A real testament to the power of writing to change hearts and minds.

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

This firsthand account of what it’s like to be homeless in America – by a former Boston Globe art critic – is as good as everyone says it is.
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Got mad enough about this that I turned this thread into a blog.

Kamala Harris did not engage in overt identity politics.

Donald Trump did. It probably helped him.

And yet, pundits like Weiss, Stephens & Dowd treat identity politics *only* as a failed Dem tactic.
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This is a cartogram depicting the share of land associated with various purposes in the United States.

Check out this clever depiction of how land is used in the United States. Cows!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

A picture of a pair of Orca with the legend “No Gods, No Masters”

I understand we’re having another spike of new arrivals from That Other Place, so welcome, here’s a celebratory fruit basket, please be aware that orcas are our national mammal here, they embody the “fuck it, we wreckin’ yachts” revolutionary proletariat spirit we prize so highly

Morale has always been a slippery, ever-morphing factor in climate action. But I hope in time this transforms us into something unstoppable. Quote Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus · Nov 9, 2016 Climate modelers have already factored in the impact of a Trump presidency & it's not pretty. It's more important than ever not to give up. 9:20 PM · Nov 9, 2016 View post engagements I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0 · Nov 9, 2016 I can only find a sliver of hope in knowing how shambolic and inept the worst people are when they're given the chance to rule.

emissions have roughly followed the trajectory of the 'clinton win' scenario rather than the 'trump win' scenario

Decided to go back in time and check out my tweets in the aftermath of Trump's 2016 win.

Found this projection of Trump's effect on US CO2 emissions, so I plugged in actuals up to 2023.

Don't think the projection was 'wrong' so much as people worked bloody hard to make it wrong.

Two of my CEPP team, Kalina Yang and Amanda Zerbe, wrote a great post on the need for and promise of better measurement of dairy methane emissions. We believe that the lack of actual measurement of emissions is a key problem for the LCFS and for compliance with Califronia's CH4 targets.

We wrote some comments on the California Air Resources Board proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Incredible team including Marelda Ahumada-Paras, Anela Arifi, Chelsea Pardini, Will Scott and Amanda Zerbe. Mixed methods applied energy and climate policy at its best! A thread...

Hey recent data science PhDs, we are hiring two postdocs. Come work with us on cutting edge causal inference methods and solve real world problems in insurance and wildfire management:

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We Need Immediate Policy Intervention to Begin Decarbonizing the Industrial Sector | Stanford Law Sc... As the COP28 Climate Summit got underway in Dubai last week, the independent Rhodium Group issued a sobering report on the climate outlook for the rem

My colleague Debbie Sivas' take on emission reductions in the industrial sector: we need to start now.

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