Patrick Grenter
@patrickgrenter.bsky.social
Deputy Chief Energy Officer at Sierra Club.
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
davekarpf.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
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Qiyam Ansari has asthma — an attack nearly killed him — and even his cat suffers from it. Their region is notorious for its air pollution.
Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas.
🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas.
🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Qiyam Ansari has asthma — an attack nearly killed him — and even his cat suffers from it. Their region is notorious for its air pollution.
Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas.
🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas.
🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
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His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
Obama and Bill Gates to Launch Clean Energy Initiative
President Barack Obama and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch a multi-billion-dollar initiative Monday to accelerate clean-energy research and development as part of a global effort to fight ...
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
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a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
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"Hyundai’s internal projections highlight the rapid expected growth in green steel. According to the company, the U.S. green steel market is expected to grow at 8.5% annually through 2034, more than double the growth rate of conventional steel."
Hyundai details $6B steel mill in Louisiana, commitment to ‘hydrogen economy’ | New Orleans CityBusiness
Hyundai aims to lead U.S. hydrogen economy despite policy and cost challenges.
neworleanscitybusiness.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Hyundai’s internal projections highlight the rapid expected growth in green steel. According to the company, the U.S. green steel market is expected to grow at 8.5% annually through 2034, more than double the growth rate of conventional steel."
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Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?
October 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?
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Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.
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Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
steady.page
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
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A long paper trail reveals that Jack Posobiec, MAGA’s leading voice on “voter fraud,” lives in Maryland but votes in Pennsylvania. slate.trib.al/VZCW5jG
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.trib.al
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A long paper trail reveals that Jack Posobiec, MAGA’s leading voice on “voter fraud,” lives in Maryland but votes in Pennsylvania. slate.trib.al/VZCW5jG
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
August 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
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Jeremy is one of the smartest experts working on climate and energy around and this is a critical topic. Check it out!
🔌On Aug 20, I'll be hosting a public webinar exploring the scale of data center buildout, how utilities are reacting, and what policymakers and the public can do to protect health, rates, and our climate targets.
Register here!
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Register here!
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Data Centers: Power Plays - But Who Pays?
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July 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Jeremy is one of the smartest experts working on climate and energy around and this is a critical topic. Check it out!
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Living within 2 km of fracking operations in Pennsylvania greatly increases risk for childhood leukemia.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Living within 2 km of fracking operations in Pennsylvania greatly increases risk for childhood leukemia.
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ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...
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one somewhat surprising thing in the Dallas Fed survey was the multiple comments lamenting the rising cost of wastewater disposal. It's an under-the-radar problem that is growing
“West Texas saltwater disposal costs have rapidly increased to injurious levels putting strong pressure on margins”
“West Texas saltwater disposal costs have rapidly increased to injurious levels putting strong pressure on margins”
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making.
It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.
👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.
👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making.
It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.
👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.
👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
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dolan came out right away and was like “i don’t know this guy, he’s not one of ours” and i was sold on the new pope right away. all it took
if an American pope takes up AI under the seven themes of Catholic social teaching (of which one is “The Dignity of Work & the Rights of Workers” and another is “Care and Stewardship of God’s Creation”) all the worst Catholics in America might just keel over on the spot and save us all some trouble
May 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
dolan came out right away and was like “i don’t know this guy, he’s not one of ours” and i was sold on the new pope right away. all it took
I was thrilled to vote for James Malone today. Even more thrilled he’s my new state Senator.
The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign.
(lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)
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March 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I was thrilled to vote for James Malone today. Even more thrilled he’s my new state Senator.
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Time for a refresh! ☀️🌱
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the @sierraclub.org is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to ✨the Sustainable Finance campaign✨
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the @sierraclub.org is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to ✨the Sustainable Finance campaign✨
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
New Name, Same Mission: The Sierra Club's Sustainable Finance Campaign
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the Sierra Club is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to the Sustainable Finance campaign.
www.sierraclub.org
January 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Time for a refresh! ☀️🌱
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the @sierraclub.org is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to ✨the Sustainable Finance campaign✨
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
To better reflect the broader scope of our work to combat the climate crisis and protect the economy, the @sierraclub.org is renaming the Fossil-Free Finance campaign to ✨the Sustainable Finance campaign✨
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
On repeat.
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
On repeat.