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@jtemple.bsky.social

Climate and energy editor, MIT Technology Review.

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"The campaign to dismantle the pillars has gotten both more forceful and more threatening." It’s game over for a strong clean hydrogen tax credit, @emilypont.bsky.social reports:
The Hydrogen Tax Credit Rules Are Effectively Deadheatmap.news The “three pillars” are crumbling.
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I dunno how folks are summoning up the energy to post anything clever, I'm utterly terrified.
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Agency staff: oh hey this statute that asks us to do something contains an ambiguity. Can someone sue me real quick so a judge who knows fuck all about the issue can decide how I should interpret it?
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The Supreme Court just blew up four decades of precedent today, in a decision that will make it harder for executive agencies to protect the environment, public health, worker safety and more. www.axios.com/2024/06/28/s...
Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron rulingwww.axios.com The ruling on the doctrine will weaken the impact of statues for a wide array policy areas.
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Well, the Bear remains extraordinary.
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Idea: be nice to each other on here and stand up for each other and also don’t be weird, good weird is fine but not bad weird
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1/ Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. The cup was made via pyrolysis — a kind of chemical recycling I'd heard a lot about. The plastics industry made pyrolysis sound magical. It was a way to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into new plastic. So I tried to buy the cup…
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The Theranos model seems bound to repeat itself as long as powerful enablers are given a pass on accountability. @jtemple.bsky.social flagged concerns about Running Tide two years ago. www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/16/1...
What I will say about this story is that it is riveting, detailed, and very much worth your time to read. You need to register with the website (for free), which is easiest in Chrome (which will automatically detect and translate from Icelandic).
Running Tide is facing scientist departures and growing concerns over seaweed sinking for carbon removalwww.technologyreview.com The venture-backed startup believes kelp could be a powerful tool to combat climate change. But some scientists fear the ecological risks on large scales.
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Oh I have another band that’s looking for a trumpet/trombone player. We’re in the Bay Area It’s for beastie boys and beck songs We practice on Thursdays
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What are some of the most interesting, promising companies focused on climate resilience/adaptation? (Do not pitch me your client.)
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Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.
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Exclu!: Foundations are sharply increasing funding for solar geoengineering research, including the UK's Quadrature Climate Foundation & Mike Schroepfer's new nonprofit, Outlier Projects (which will also support work on glacier resilience & carbon removal)
This London non-profit is now one of the biggest backers of geoengineering researchwww.technologyreview.com Plus, Simons, EDF and a new venture backed by Meta’s former CTO are poised to pour tens of millions more into the controversial field.
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The IRA's boosted tax credits have triggered a carbon storage boom that should ensure more & more CO2 winds up back underground. But the projects, which could cost the US hundreds of billions, raise thorny questions about net benefits & community risks. www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/12/1...
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boomwww.technologyreview.com Hundreds of looming projects will force communities to weigh the climate claims and environmental risks of capturing, moving, and storing carbon dioxide.
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Asking your parent or grandparent or elderly neighbor if they are okay during a heat wave isn't the right question to ask. They may say "yes" and think its true when the answer is actually "no." Read why in my latest Bloomberg News story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Everyone You Know Will Eventually Be Highly Vulnerable to Extreme Heatwww.bloomberg.com As we get older, our bodies become less adept at responding to high temperatures. On a warming planet with an aging population, that’s a problem.
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On this week's episode of SHIFT KEY, @jessejenkins.bsky.social and @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social chat with @severinborenstein.bsky.social about the economics of rooftop solar — and why California presents an interesting case study. Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts:
How California Broke Its Electricity Billsheatmap.news Inside episode 18 of Shift Key.
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I just moved to Reno and Moxie loves her new desert playground.
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I'm really counting on you next interview subject! 🤞
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"But speaking as a climate reporter, expecting a product to ease global warming, taste like a juicy burger, and also be low in salt, fat, and calories is absurd. You may as well ask a startup to conduct sorcery." -- from @jtemple.bsky.social today 🐄 www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/07/1...
How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meatwww.technologyreview.com Let’s stop inventing reasons to reject cultured meat and other protein alternatives that could dramatically cut climate emissions.
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In the latest Heat Exchange, Cornell's Dan Visioni weighs in on recent proposals to restrict geoengineering, noting such policies are tricky to define & may not produce the outcomes that proponents hope.
Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguidedwww.technologyreview.com We need more research, including outdoor experiments, to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions.
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Once again I have waded (ha) into the duck curve and solar in California. Solar "duck curves" are getting deeper and deeper in California as more solar power gets added onto the grid - with consequences for transmission, batteries, and rooftop PV. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.t.co As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.
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Lotta comms folks still mixing up exclusive in the journalism sense (just for me), with exclusive in the club sense (just for me and ~3-4 dozen people who dress much better than me).
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The press should cover self-immolation the same way we cover Golden Gate Bridge suicides: Not at all.
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🚨SBTi insider: Corporate interests are “trying to water down climate targets in order to scale the carbon market. It's almost as if they think that setting targets is an end in itself, as if how we achieve those targets doesn’t matter.”
📢NEW: In the wild west of carbon offsetting, insiders have revealed to me how corporate interests are attempting to weaken the SBTi in order to scale the carbon market. It's The Climate Laundry #5!
In The Wild West Of Carbon Offsets, Who Plays The Sheriff?climatelaundry.substack.com The apparent endorsement of carbon offsets by a leading standards watchdog was welcomed with jubilation by those who sell them. Everyone else is steaming mad about it. Here's why.