Jay Turner
@jayturner.bsky.social
Environmental Studies Professor at Wellesley College. Author of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (2022). Tracking and analyzing clean energy supply chains at https://www.the-big-green-machine.com
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Trump + 11 months: Investments in US clean energy manufacturing were hit hard last month.
We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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Trump + 11 months: Investments in US clean energy manufacturing were hit hard last month.
We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trump + 11 months: Investments in US clean energy manufacturing were hit hard last month.
We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
🔌💡
We are now tracking 69 projects, $70.5B in investment, and 66,758 jobs that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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The suspension is the latest step by the administration to hobble offshore wind in its push against renewable energy sources. It comes 2 weeks after a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, calling it unlawful. 🔌💡
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast, cites national security concerns
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentag...
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The suspension is the latest step by the administration to hobble offshore wind in its push against renewable energy sources. It comes 2 weeks after a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, calling it unlawful. 🔌💡
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
The immediate impact of Ford's retooling is the loss of a lot of jobs. Ford says it plans to hire 2100 people for the new LFP lines - and current BlueOval employees can apply - but that isn't slated to go into production until 2027.
#energysky
#energysky
The entire workforce at the BlueOval SK electric vehicle battery park in Kentucky is being laid off, as Ford announces it is repurposing the Glendale plant to manufacture battery storage for energy customers. From WKU:
BlueOval SK in Kentucky is out of the EV battery business and will lay off entire workforce as Ford announces restructuring
The entire workforce at the BlueOval SK electric vehicle battery park in Hardin County is being laid off as Ford announces a major restructuring.
www.wkyufm.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The immediate impact of Ford's retooling is the loss of a lot of jobs. Ford says it plans to hire 2100 people for the new LFP lines - and current BlueOval employees can apply - but that isn't slated to go into production until 2027.
#energysky
#energysky
In 2021, SK and Ford joined forces to build 3 BlueOval battery factories. Now they are breaking up.
@electrek.co reports SK is looking for more flexibility to sell to other automakers and for storage applications.
Ford keeps KY plants; SK keeps TN plant. #energysky
electrek.co/2025/12/11/f...
@electrek.co reports SK is looking for more flexibility to sell to other automakers and for storage applications.
Ford keeps KY plants; SK keeps TN plant. #energysky
electrek.co/2025/12/11/f...
Ford and SK On kill massive $11.4B US battery joint venture, split factories between them
In a massive shakeup for the US electric vehicle supply chain, Ford and South Korean battery giant SK On announced...
electrek.co
December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In 2021, SK and Ford joined forces to build 3 BlueOval battery factories. Now they are breaking up.
@electrek.co reports SK is looking for more flexibility to sell to other automakers and for storage applications.
Ford keeps KY plants; SK keeps TN plant. #energysky
electrek.co/2025/12/11/f...
@electrek.co reports SK is looking for more flexibility to sell to other automakers and for storage applications.
Ford keeps KY plants; SK keeps TN plant. #energysky
electrek.co/2025/12/11/f...
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ASEH Launching New Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
ASEH will award up to six $500 grants in 2026 to support early career scholars doing research in environmental history. Apply today by following this link: forms.gle/AQXjPeMw5DBa...
ASEH will award up to six $500 grants in 2026 to support early career scholars doing research in environmental history. Apply today by following this link: forms.gle/AQXjPeMw5DBa...
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
ASEH Launching New Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
ASEH will award up to six $500 grants in 2026 to support early career scholars doing research in environmental history. Apply today by following this link: forms.gle/AQXjPeMw5DBa...
ASEH will award up to six $500 grants in 2026 to support early career scholars doing research in environmental history. Apply today by following this link: forms.gle/AQXjPeMw5DBa...
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HUGE: In a letter to Congress, more than 140 solar companies detail how the Trump permitting freeze on renewables is worse than imagined and hitting copious projects on private lands
They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand
They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand
Solar Industry Group Describes Trump’s ‘Complete Moratorium on Permitting’
A letter from the Solar Energy Industries Association asks for Congress’ help to reverse the administration’s effective permitting ban.
heatmap.news
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
HUGE: In a letter to Congress, more than 140 solar companies detail how the Trump permitting freeze on renewables is worse than imagined and hitting copious projects on private lands
They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand
They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand
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Speaking of sensible things, @volts.wtf new solo pod episode is must-listen! 🔌💡 www.volts.wtf/p/whats-goin...
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Speaking of sensible things, @volts.wtf new solo pod episode is must-listen! 🔌💡 www.volts.wtf/p/whats-goin...
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An article I cowrote with Andy Schultz and David McCune providing some highlights from a research project that analyzed various voting systems.
theconversation.com/ranked-choic...
theconversation.com/ranked-choic...
Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician
Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An article I cowrote with Andy Schultz and David McCune providing some highlights from a research project that analyzed various voting systems.
theconversation.com/ranked-choic...
theconversation.com/ranked-choic...
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I’m proud of the work we have done and continue to do. I’m Trying not to hate the name change, but most of us came here for the mission.
Most labs are named after places because they could not or didn’t want to announce their mission. We always got to be proud of ours. I hope we still can be. 🔌💡
Most labs are named after places because they could not or didn’t want to announce their mission. We always got to be proud of ours. I hope we still can be. 🔌💡
The Trump administration says it has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory the "National Laboratory of the Rockies." "The renaming is effective immediately and will be reflected in all public communications and official correspondence." www.nrel.gov/news/detail/... 🔌💡
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’m proud of the work we have done and continue to do. I’m Trying not to hate the name change, but most of us came here for the mission.
Most labs are named after places because they could not or didn’t want to announce their mission. We always got to be proud of ours. I hope we still can be. 🔌💡
Most labs are named after places because they could not or didn’t want to announce their mission. We always got to be proud of ours. I hope we still can be. 🔌💡
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1) The editor of Cell Reports Sustainable, a new open-access journal from Cell Press, graciously invited me to do a short Q&A about our new paper, "Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification." Pasting the Q&A in a short 🧵 if anyone's interested.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification
Replacing fossil-fueled machines with electric alternatives can reduce emissions,
but Priyadarshan et al. find that reinforcing United States distribution grids to
accommodate complete home and vehicl...
www.cell.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1) The editor of Cell Reports Sustainable, a new open-access journal from Cell Press, graciously invited me to do a short Q&A about our new paper, "Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification." Pasting the Q&A in a short 🧵 if anyone's interested.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
In the US, the lead-acid battery industry, led by @batterycouncil.bsky.social (founded in 1924) has been championing the industry as the model for recycling and re-use lead-acid batteries since the 1990s.
Here is what you'll see on their website:
batterycouncil.org/battery-fact...
Here is what you'll see on their website:
batterycouncil.org/battery-fact...
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In the US, the lead-acid battery industry, led by @batterycouncil.bsky.social (founded in 1924) has been championing the industry as the model for recycling and re-use lead-acid batteries since the 1990s.
Here is what you'll see on their website:
batterycouncil.org/battery-fact...
Here is what you'll see on their website:
batterycouncil.org/battery-fact...
Industry rightly claims that 99% of US lead-acid batteries are recycled.
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Industry rightly claims that 99% of US lead-acid batteries are recycled.
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
US clean energy manufacturing investments slowed again last month.
We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
🔌💡
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
US clean energy manufacturing investments slowed again last month.
We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
🔌💡
We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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Wow.
Just to add to the data points below. US coal exports in 2024 were ~$9.4B.
So far this year, China has exported approximately $60 billion in batteries for battery energy storage systems and components.
Just to add to the data points below. US coal exports in 2024 were ~$9.4B.
So far this year, China has exported approximately $60 billion in batteries for battery energy storage systems and components.
Battery export boom: China has exported approximately $60 billion in battery energy storage systems and components in the first three quarters of 2025, up 24% from last year www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
US export comparisons in 2024: Soy, $25b. LNG, $28.9b. Auto exports, $59.2b. 🔌💡
US export comparisons in 2024: Soy, $25b. LNG, $28.9b. Auto exports, $59.2b. 🔌💡
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wow.
Just to add to the data points below. US coal exports in 2024 were ~$9.4B.
So far this year, China has exported approximately $60 billion in batteries for battery energy storage systems and components.
Just to add to the data points below. US coal exports in 2024 were ~$9.4B.
So far this year, China has exported approximately $60 billion in batteries for battery energy storage systems and components.
"There is no playbook for reducing exposure when people’s homes are being sprinkled with lead dust from the sky."
A sobering piece from the NYTimes on the dire consequences of the international trade in recycled lead for front-line communities in Africa. #energysky
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A sobering piece from the NYTimes on the dire consequences of the international trade in recycled lead for front-line communities in Africa. #energysky
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"There is no playbook for reducing exposure when people’s homes are being sprinkled with lead dust from the sky."
A sobering piece from the NYTimes on the dire consequences of the international trade in recycled lead for front-line communities in Africa. #energysky
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A sobering piece from the NYTimes on the dire consequences of the international trade in recycled lead for front-line communities in Africa. #energysky
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Do you teach #envhist?
If so, @aseh.bsky.social's Early Career Caucus has put together a fantastic panel to discuss ideas for planning environmental history courses!
Details below…
If so, @aseh.bsky.social's Early Career Caucus has put together a fantastic panel to discuss ideas for planning environmental history courses!
Details below…
Join the ASEH ECC's first event of this semester! "A Discussion on Environmental History Course Planning" on Monday, November 17th at 12pm EST via Zoom.
See you all there!
stonybrook.zoom.us/j/9422405381...
See you all there!
stonybrook.zoom.us/j/9422405381...
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Do you teach #envhist?
If so, @aseh.bsky.social's Early Career Caucus has put together a fantastic panel to discuss ideas for planning environmental history courses!
Details below…
If so, @aseh.bsky.social's Early Career Caucus has put together a fantastic panel to discuss ideas for planning environmental history courses!
Details below…
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Hey @volts.wtf - remember your "one weird trick" essay about Democratic trifectas for strong renewable energy policy? House Democrats in the MA Legislature are apparently trying to prove you wrong.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
Sweeping energy bill to weaken 2030 climate goals clears key House committee - CommonWealth Beacon
The measure is ushering in an unexpected — and messy — debate over the state’s overall policy push to meet its 2030 climate commitments as Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability package filed earlie...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hey @volts.wtf - remember your "one weird trick" essay about Democratic trifectas for strong renewable energy policy? House Democrats in the MA Legislature are apparently trying to prove you wrong.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
There are dark clouds on the horizon for Massachusetts climate policy. A new House bill proposes major changes to Massachusetts's policy. See thread below.
MA and New England climate folks - Has anyone seen the text of this House bill? Cutting the 2030 climate goal, reducing Mass Save efficiency spending, sounds bad. 🔌💡
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
There are dark clouds on the horizon for Massachusetts climate policy. A new House bill proposes major changes to Massachusetts's policy. See thread below.
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Updated data on renewables and energy storage deployment. The race between California and Texas is... how shall we say... no longer close.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Updated data on renewables and energy storage deployment. The race between California and Texas is... how shall we say... no longer close.
For all you IPA fans out there, here is a reason to drink a Heineken (at least when in Southern Europe). Their Portugal brewer is transitioning from fossil-fuel boilers to zero-carbon steam, made possible by a 100MWh Rondo Heat Battery. #energysky
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For all you IPA fans out there, here is a reason to drink a Heineken (at least when in Southern Europe). Their Portugal brewer is transitioning from fossil-fuel boilers to zero-carbon steam, made possible by a 100MWh Rondo Heat Battery. #energysky
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
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Covering half of parking lots with solar canopies in the USA would generate ~1.4 terawatts. ☀️🇺🇸 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
electrek.co
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Covering half of parking lots with solar canopies in the USA would generate ~1.4 terawatts. ☀️🇺🇸 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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For years, Sarah & Doug have been putting together such a clear-eyed, inclusive, and hopeful vision of mobility alternatives. Now they've distilled it into this great book! And it starts with a mind-boggling early Superman comic that they unearthed.
What more do I need to say? Go get it!
What more do I need to say? Go get it!
October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For years, Sarah & Doug have been putting together such a clear-eyed, inclusive, and hopeful vision of mobility alternatives. Now they've distilled it into this great book! And it starts with a mind-boggling early Superman comic that they unearthed.
What more do I need to say? Go get it!
What more do I need to say? Go get it!
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Apply for an ASEH Travel Grant to the 2026 Conference in Kansas City. Submission deadline is: Nov. 20
aseh.org
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American Society for Environmental History - 2026 ASEH Travel Grants
aseh.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Apply for an ASEH Travel Grant to the 2026 Conference in Kansas City. Submission deadline is: Nov. 20
aseh.org
aseh.org
