What policies could help California lower its electricity rates? A new @cleeberkeley.bsky.social report released today has actionable solutions: www.law.berkeley.edu/research/cle... Some recommendations for the legislature & public utilities commission include: 🧵👇

Got my #CoyoteLand copy & cookie at a @vanessahua.bsky.social local book talk today. Excited to read it and interview her for @stateofthebay.bsky.social on Monday 6/29!

Many thanks to @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @ @spears.bsky.social for coming to @kalwradio.bsky.social downtown SF space for @climatebreak.bsky.social today! We covered much ground on state/local climate elections & CA litigation against the Trump administration. Stay tuned for the episodes!

KALW asked me to write about what I stand for at this moment in our history. Read my response below, which informs the shows I host for @kalwradio.bsky.social: - @stateofthebay.bsky.social - Your Call - @climatebreak.bsky.social w/@cleeberkeley.bsky.social Link here: www.kalw.org/kalw-speaks/...

🧵 California issued a first-of-its-kind mandate for clean trucks with its Advanced Clean Trucks rule. A new @cleeberkeley.bsky.social report details the rule's development, via exclusive interviews w/officials, industry & stakeholders. Read the report here: www.law.berkeley.edu/research/cle...

It’s worth noting that the Obama environmental policy that so frightened the chief justice into launching the “shadow docket” was actually so weak that the power sector ended up exceeding the clean energy targets even with the regulation on hold. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Come out to the Roxie in SF this afternoon for a 3:10pm showing of the BART documentary “Tunnel Vision,” followed by a panel with me, filmmaker @vwoo.bsky.social and BART director @edwardwright.bsky.social

Getting ready to host science (climate change) trivia night at the Exploratorium! Representing @kalwradio.bsky.social

"In 2025, the world sold 20.7 million EVs – 3.6 million more EVs than it did in the previous year, according to a new report by Rho Motion. That’s a larger increase than last year’s 3.5 million increase, which was also higher than the previous year" Peak gas car global sales was 2017:

LA County has 150 transit stops that #SB79 will now upzone. Here’s the map from @latimes.com:

High-income cities in Contra Costa County got a carve out so #SB79 (statewide transit-oriented upzoning) wouldn’t apply to their BART and Amtrak stations:

After the Hawaiians killed & bbq’d Captain Cook in 1779, one local appeared to relish taunting the British sailors still on their boats, from Hampton Sides’ The Wide Wide Sea:

A common criticism of EVs is "what do you do during a power outage?" But rather than making us dependent on the electricity grid, EVs can actually help liberate us from it.

The first It’s Electric curbside EV charging debuts in San Francisco. This tech will really help apartment dwellers who need cars but don’t have a garage to go electric.

On Your Call 10am PT, we discuss Pope Francis' environmental legacy w/Mark Hertsgaard @thenation.com. + A new doc on how diet can improve ocean health w/Malaury Morin + Scientists respond to Trump w/ @emmalovesscience.bsky.social Stream live @kalwradio.bsky.social: www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

Great chart from @nytimes.com. US political instability is downstream of this decades-in-the-making economic inequality, which doesn’t even include our rising cost of living over the time period. We need a credible plan to fix this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Good data here on how this tax affects and discourages badly needed non-mansions in our infill areas, including commercial development and apartments: