Elena Saxonhouse
@elenasax.bsky.social
Sierra Club managing attorney, focused on air, energy, climate, industrial decarb, FOIA. East Bay (CA) mom. Native Michigander.
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Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
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There is an important election opportunity for Georgia voters to have their say on the future of electricity regulation in the state. Turnout is typically incredibly low.
Good break down here. youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
Good break down here. youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video
YouTube video by Hank Green
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October 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
There is an important election opportunity for Georgia voters to have their say on the future of electricity regulation in the state. Turnout is typically incredibly low.
Good break down here. youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
Good break down here. youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...
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LAST CHANCE TO COMMENT! Political appointees at the EPA want to undo federal limits on greenhouse gas pollution, undermining our ability to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. Learn more, then tell the EPA that #ClimateCantWait 👇 ow.ly/ygw450WVupk 🔌💡
Inside the EPA’s Disastrous Proposal to Eliminate the Endangerment Finding - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
The Trump Administration’s EPA political appointees have proposed prohibiting federal limits on greenhouse gas climate pollution
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September 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
LAST CHANCE TO COMMENT! Political appointees at the EPA want to undo federal limits on greenhouse gas pollution, undermining our ability to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. Learn more, then tell the EPA that #ClimateCantWait 👇 ow.ly/ygw450WVupk 🔌💡
New internal docs from Dept of Interior: since January 20, nearly 2,600 job offers have been rescinded, including 479 park ranger positions, 403 financial & clerical positions, and > 150 maintenance mechanic roles. @sierraclub.org press release and link to docs: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Internal Documents Uncovered by Sierra Club: Thousands of Jobs Rescinded, Left Vacant at Interior
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Documents obtained by the Sierra Club provide a glimpse of the scale of the Trump administration’s attacks on federal land management agencies.
www.sierraclub.org
September 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
New internal docs from Dept of Interior: since January 20, nearly 2,600 job offers have been rescinded, including 479 park ranger positions, 403 financial & clerical positions, and > 150 maintenance mechanic roles. @sierraclub.org press release and link to docs: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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New Instagram reel by Chris Mowrey about energy prices in Georgia.
Great to see Gen Z Democrat activists getting so pro-active and passionate about energy regulation and electricity pricing.
Great to see Gen Z Democrat activists getting so pro-active and passionate about energy regulation and electricity pricing.
August 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New Instagram reel by Chris Mowrey about energy prices in Georgia.
Great to see Gen Z Democrat activists getting so pro-active and passionate about energy regulation and electricity pricing.
Great to see Gen Z Democrat activists getting so pro-active and passionate about energy regulation and electricity pricing.
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This is the other side of the renewables story that must be told more. Battery advances have decisively solved the problem of baseload power, they're fully capable of absorbing excess power generation during peak periods for use during slack periods.
#EconSky #ClimateSky #EnergySky
#EconSky #ClimateSky #EnergySky
August 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is the other side of the renewables story that must be told more. Battery advances have decisively solved the problem of baseload power, they're fully capable of absorbing excess power generation during peak periods for use during slack periods.
#EconSky #ClimateSky #EnergySky
#EconSky #ClimateSky #EnergySky
Some #FOIA updates from @sierraclub.org. We recently filed 3 lawsuits targeting communications & calendars of Burgum, Wright, Vought, Musk, and many other political appointees. Also to shed light on funding freezes. Look fwd to sharing the docs once we pry them loose. www.law360.com/articles/236...
Sierra Club Says OMB Ignoring Funding Freeze Info Requests - Law360
The Office of Management and Budget's refusal to produce records concerning the Trump administration's freeze of federal funding programs is impeding the Sierra Club's mission to advocate for and educ...
www.law360.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Some #FOIA updates from @sierraclub.org. We recently filed 3 lawsuits targeting communications & calendars of Burgum, Wright, Vought, Musk, and many other political appointees. Also to shed light on funding freezes. Look fwd to sharing the docs once we pry them loose. www.law360.com/articles/236...
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"It’s hard to think of a bigger self-own. We’re effectively raising taxes on the country’s main sources of new power at a time when electricity prices are already rising,” @jessedjenkins.com told Rogé Karma: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 🔌💡
The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
The Republican megabill could be setting America up for the worst energy-affordability crisis since the 1970s.
www.theatlantic.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"It’s hard to think of a bigger self-own. We’re effectively raising taxes on the country’s main sources of new power at a time when electricity prices are already rising,” @jessedjenkins.com told Rogé Karma: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 🔌💡
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Finally. Good news.
Flint finally replaced its lead #water pipes.
Now do the rest of the country.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill had $15 billion for this, with $12 billion more from EPA state revolving loan fund. Trump is cutting billions from this.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Flint finally replaced its lead #water pipes.
Now do the rest of the country.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill had $15 billion for this, with $12 billion more from EPA state revolving loan fund. Trump is cutting billions from this.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Flint finally replaced its lead pipes
The contamination in Flint, Michigan, sparked a national dialogue about the harms of lead pipes and the country’s aging water infrastructure.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Finally. Good news.
Flint finally replaced its lead #water pipes.
Now do the rest of the country.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill had $15 billion for this, with $12 billion more from EPA state revolving loan fund. Trump is cutting billions from this.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Flint finally replaced its lead #water pipes.
Now do the rest of the country.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill had $15 billion for this, with $12 billion more from EPA state revolving loan fund. Trump is cutting billions from this.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Couple of possible reasons:
1. Fossil vs Renewable has become cultural politics, not economic politics
2. Individual billionaires surpassing "corporate" donations
3. Belief that those hurt are mostly blue states and/or Dem voters in red states
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1. Fossil vs Renewable has become cultural politics, not economic politics
2. Individual billionaires surpassing "corporate" donations
3. Belief that those hurt are mostly blue states and/or Dem voters in red states
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Couple of possible reasons:
1. Fossil vs Renewable has become cultural politics, not economic politics
2. Individual billionaires surpassing "corporate" donations
3. Belief that those hurt are mostly blue states and/or Dem voters in red states
1/
1. Fossil vs Renewable has become cultural politics, not economic politics
2. Individual billionaires surpassing "corporate" donations
3. Belief that those hurt are mostly blue states and/or Dem voters in red states
1/
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This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.
If this Senate language on solar passes, I think we’re in a full-blown national energy crisis within 2 years.
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.
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If this Senate language on solar passes, I think we’re in a full-blown national energy crisis within 2 years.
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If this Senate language on solar passes, I think we’re in a full-blown national energy crisis within 2 years.
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
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This is so good - How much higher will your energy bill be if the Trump Budget Bill passes? Find out here (and only accounts for some of the ways that your energy bill will rise as a result of the bill):
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
See how your energy prices could change if the GOP passes Trump’s tax bill | CNN
Republicans’ tax bill would increase Americans’ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.
www.cnn.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is so good - How much higher will your energy bill be if the Trump Budget Bill passes? Find out here (and only accounts for some of the ways that your energy bill will rise as a result of the bill):
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
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@lauraklivans.bsky.social describes the lessons learned from the EcoBlock decarbonization project in Oakland, California: www.kqed.org/science/1997... 🔌💡
This Oakland Block Tried to Quit Fossil Fuels. Here’s What They Learned | KQED
As an innovative project to cut gas out of an entire block comes to a close, residents and researchers share their lessons.
www.kqed.org
June 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@lauraklivans.bsky.social describes the lessons learned from the EcoBlock decarbonization project in Oakland, California: www.kqed.org/science/1997... 🔌💡
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If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.
Research into quantum mechanics, volcanic eruptions and all sorts of other studies already underway canceled for no reason - a waste of resources, loss of innovation and undercutting expertise across multiple fields.
NEW: The National Science Foundation last week terminated 196 grants to Harvard amid the university's feud with Trump.
“Pure retribution,” one NSF employee told me of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
“Pure retribution,” one NSF employee told me of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.
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This chart shows where the clean-energy spending from the Inflation Reduction Act was spent. It mostly went to Republican-controlled districts.
The big question now is whether those Republican lawmakers step up to save the law, which their party’s majority in Congress is seeking to repeal.
The big question now is whether those Republican lawmakers step up to save the law, which their party’s majority in Congress is seeking to repeal.
May 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This chart shows where the clean-energy spending from the Inflation Reduction Act was spent. It mostly went to Republican-controlled districts.
The big question now is whether those Republican lawmakers step up to save the law, which their party’s majority in Congress is seeking to repeal.
The big question now is whether those Republican lawmakers step up to save the law, which their party’s majority in Congress is seeking to repeal.
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Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.
The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
May 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.
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I've read through the text from House Energy and Commerce and now Ways and Means. I'm here to tell you this is as bad as it gets for clean energy. We are working to analyze the impact of the actual bill language, but it will be pretty close to our assessment of full repeal we did about a month ago.
May 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've read through the text from House Energy and Commerce and now Ways and Means. I'm here to tell you this is as bad as it gets for clean energy. We are working to analyze the impact of the actual bill language, but it will be pretty close to our assessment of full repeal we did about a month ago.
In addition to blocking the RIF and reorg plans at 21 agencies Judge Illston orders that the plans themselves - kept secret to date - must be produced in discovery.
FLASH: Federal judge blocks RIFs/Trump administration reorganization plans for 20 federal agencies. SF-based Judge Susan Illston (Clinton) says they appear to exceed executive branch authority to implement without Congressional approval. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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May 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
In addition to blocking the RIF and reorg plans at 21 agencies Judge Illston orders that the plans themselves - kept secret to date - must be produced in discovery.
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Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants
If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
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Happy Earth Day!
Today I’m loving this cute new web tool from @braitsch.bsky.social that identifies all the San Francisco trees that were planted on your birthday.
transpomaps.org/projects/san...
Today I’m loving this cute new web tool from @braitsch.bsky.social that identifies all the San Francisco trees that were planted on your birthday.
transpomaps.org/projects/san...
San Francisco Birthday Trees
Discover street trees in San Francisco that were planted on the day you were born.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Happy Earth Day!
Today I’m loving this cute new web tool from @braitsch.bsky.social that identifies all the San Francisco trees that were planted on your birthday.
transpomaps.org/projects/san...
Today I’m loving this cute new web tool from @braitsch.bsky.social that identifies all the San Francisco trees that were planted on your birthday.
transpomaps.org/projects/san...
👋 Sierra Club @sierraclub.org just brought a new lawsuit against the Trump Administration to restore EJ Screen and the Climate & Environmental Justice Screening Tool. With @publiccitizen.bsky.social @envirointegrity.bsky.social @ucsusa.bsky.social CA Communities Against Toxics #greensky #energysky
Sierra Club, Allies Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice Websites and Data
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club and a group of environmental and science organizations, represented by Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program and Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a fede...
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April 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
👋 Sierra Club @sierraclub.org just brought a new lawsuit against the Trump Administration to restore EJ Screen and the Climate & Environmental Justice Screening Tool. With @publiccitizen.bsky.social @envirointegrity.bsky.social @ucsusa.bsky.social CA Communities Against Toxics #greensky #energysky
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Hey #FOIA fans want to do your part to make it easier to get DOGE records?
Easy peasy. Send a short (polite!) email to National.FOIAPortal@usdoj.gov and say, please make it possible to submit electronic FOIA requests to the U.S. DOGE Service through FOIA.gov.
That's all. I'll take it from there.
Easy peasy. Send a short (polite!) email to National.FOIAPortal@usdoj.gov and say, please make it possible to submit electronic FOIA requests to the U.S. DOGE Service through FOIA.gov.
That's all. I'll take it from there.
FOIA.gov - Freedom of Information ActLock
FOIA.gov
April 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM