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Arnav Gautam
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PhD student @ CMU in renewable energy grid integration for ambitious and equitable climate action
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Maps of climate change projections, in an open-access paper! Lots of great detail on what scenarios might take place and how the impacts are distributed geographically
March 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Money talks
costasamaras.com Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Feb 16
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”

Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Analysis: I think defying the courts to illegally cancel research to find a cure for children’s cancer, is a bad move
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
arnavgautam.bsky.social
Personally, I'm a big fan of the three branches of the U.S. government each doing their own job. I hope the Congressional Research Service continues its job of providing nonpartisan research and analysis on topics like this
Trump ‘does not have the authority to abolish’ USAID: Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service, a federal agency tasked with legislative research and analysis, published a Monday report declaring President Trump does not have the “authority” to abolish USAI…
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February 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A #Trump administration rollback of current environmental and #energy policies could lead to several thousand premature deaths a year by 2030 - @robbieorvis.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#energysky #climate #greensky
Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is under way
Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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this is right. on our current track the Constitution is done, kaput www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:
Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place. Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM