It looks like nature's engineers might finally catch a dam break!
Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter to introduce a first-of-its-kind bill to protect #beavers on #PublicLands 🦫🦫
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rrmycJ
'The answer is clear: reduce demand through electric vehicles & better public transit... we need to open up California’s gasoline market & break apart the political stranglehold of the state’s oil industry. We don’t need half-baked answers that ignore the research and the data.'
According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...
MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.
MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton.
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Dow is down, gas is way up (up 50 cents here from yesterday). Gulf allies are under attack. This was clearly foreseeable by any student in any Introduction to International Relations class but somehow a huge surprise to the people running this country.
More like someone who thinks this doesn't belong in American society.
War in Iran exposed that Europe failed to stand up to a business lobby that slowed decarbonisation
It committed a "strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security & independence....truth is that rearguard action on fossil dependence is bad for business"
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Sounds high on his own supply and filled with delusions of grandeur and inflated self-importance like the others. The tech bro crowd has clearly demonstrated it has no idea what's really good for society.
BREAKING:
A federal judge dismissed Trump’s challenge to New York’s congestion pricing program, writing, “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.”
Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the backstory:
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"Oil dependence creates incentives for regime change, military occupation & erosion of international law. #PetroStates don't just extract energy. They export volatility resulting in a global system where climate & geopolitical breakdowns reinforce one another. #ElectroStates are the exact opposite."
Kind of impressive how poorly timed the big-ass truck abundance thing was. Pretty soon after that, it became obvious that, for a number of reasons, expensive big vehicles in the US are gonna be a problem and there’s no real way to fix it while keeping them big!
Great graphic, albeit expectedly disappointing. Can you share how this has changed over last decade or so for US, especially how it coincides with Tramp/GOP's rampant spread of lies and division and GOP's/billionaires' efforts to control media and attack real journalism?
Post by @joycekaram.bsky.social: "Video of a shepherd in #Lebanon evacuating with his herd from Naqoura on Israel’s border to western Beqaa. They’ve already been walking for 2 days and expect 3 more to go. War doesn’t spare anyone…"
Trump administration lawyers told Supreme Court justices that they should rule in favor of the chemical company Bayer in an upcoming case that could prevent individuals from suing pesticide companies over claims their products cause cancer and other illnesses.
Oleksiy Brecht is a 'Hero of Ukraine' for his pivotal role keeping the power on. What's saddest to me about Brecht's tragic death: While responding to Russia's grid attacks he had to simultaneously do battle with corrupt power brokers within Ukraine.
My latest for @spectrum.ieee.org:
@billmckibben.bsky.social: "We have a few humble but powerful tools — the solar panel, the windmill, the battery — that make it easier to imagine something other than our current nightmare." billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-...
Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Trump’s war means that the global oil shock has sent prices past $80.
The sharp rise in prices helps Russia fund its war machine.
Dmytro, forced from Luhansk and Kharkiv, sees how the Iran war is Putin’s saving grace.
The world is getting a reminder, once again, of the enormous economic and geopolitical risks associated with dependable on fossil fuels. And a reminder of the incredible independence that renewable energy provides from those risks.
#fossilfuels
#renewableenergy
#iran
Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...
"The projects are sparking alarm from El Paso to Davis, West Virginia, from residents unhappy to learn that gas plants large enough to fuel major cities are set to sprout in places they were never expected."
Way to go, tech barons! Make enemies of EVERYONE with this garbage.
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A couple of years ago commodities traders fucked over the people of Pakistan by reselling LNG that was contracted to Pakistan to Europe because they could make more money.
The people of Pakistan responded by building out solar power fast. Themselves.
Fossil fuels losing political power.
"Around the world, powerful men are facing consequences for their actions."
"They’re all unfortunate not to be American. Otherwise they probably would have gotten away scot-free."
Thanks to "a decades-long backlash among the American leadership class to the idea of accountability."
Great pics and selection. Fun to see from someone who lived in Japan ages ago. Thanks for sharing!
As Americans eat ever more seafood for our health, global fish stocks are being depleted. Even “good” wild fisheries management rarely considers habitat impacts and interactions between species. Could a more holistic, ecosystem-based approach move us toward more sustainable seafood harvests?
My story on big new @ipbes.net (the "IPCC for nature") report laying out steps business and policy makers can - and must - take to reverse #biodiversity loss/avert #risks. Timely for #Canada: @mark-carney.bsky.social says 2030 Nature Strategy coming soon. #GBF corporateknights.com/finance/a-la...
Of the total global finance flows with direct negative impacts on nature, private finance accounts for around two-thirds ($4.9 trillion).
Read more in the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Join us for this talk that will examine the financial interests opposing decarbonization with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social
📅 3 March, 6.30pm
📍In-person and online
Register at: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
