Dave Reichmuth
@davereichmuth.bsky.social
Transportation policy, electric cars, science, Oakland, baseball & softball; not necessarily in order of importance.
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I already broke the story that Hollywood's top environmental group is poised to cut ties with Toyota, its leading sponsor, after criticism from Jane Fonda over the Japanese automaker's refusal to embrace EVs and funding of climate deniers: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-...
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor, after critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I already broke the story that Hollywood's top environmental group is poised to cut ties with Toyota, its leading sponsor, after criticism from Jane Fonda over the Japanese automaker's refusal to embrace EVs and funding of climate deniers: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-...
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Last week I left the L.A. Times and launched Climate-Colored Goggles, an independent newsletter about climate and culture. Here's my mission statement, please check it out and subscribe! www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...
Why I'm writing about climate and culture
I never expected to leave the Los Angeles Times and start a Substack. Then a story about Disneyland caught me by surprise.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Last week I left the L.A. Times and launched Climate-Colored Goggles, an independent newsletter about climate and culture. Here's my mission statement, please check it out and subscribe! www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...
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My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Today, @ucs.org and @envdefensefund.bsky.social filed suit to challenge the Administration's efforts to use a shoddy DOE report filled with climate disinformation to rollback federal climate action. Their actions are indefensible and we will not let it stand. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...
EDF, UCS File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Secret Convening of Climate Skeptics, Use of Their Hidden “Science” Report in Attempt to Overturn Endangerment Finding
EDF and UCS are going to court to challenge the Trump administration’s use of a secretively convened group of climate skeptics to prepare a now widely disparaged report in its attempt to undo the Enda...
www.ucs.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today, @ucs.org and @envdefensefund.bsky.social filed suit to challenge the Administration's efforts to use a shoddy DOE report filled with climate disinformation to rollback federal climate action. Their actions are indefensible and we will not let it stand. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...
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By design, federal statistical agencies operate independently to guard against politicization of data collection and reporting.
This is an alarming and dangerous move that threatens the scientific integrity of independent statistical agencies across the government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
This is an alarming and dangerous move that threatens the scientific integrity of independent statistical agencies across the government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief After Weak Jobs Report
President Trump said he directed his team to fire the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the bureau issued a weak jobs report on Friday.
Trump in a social media post said Erika McEntarfer, ...
www.wsj.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
By design, federal statistical agencies operate independently to guard against politicization of data collection and reporting.
This is an alarming and dangerous move that threatens the scientific integrity of independent statistical agencies across the government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
This is an alarming and dangerous move that threatens the scientific integrity of independent statistical agencies across the government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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"The Trump administration's intent is clear: They want to undermine or overturn the endangerment finding so as to evade EPA's legal responsibility to address the harms caused by climate change," said UCS's Rachel Cleetus. "This is simply a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry..."
Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people
The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.
www.npr.org
July 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"The Trump administration's intent is clear: They want to undermine or overturn the endangerment finding so as to evade EPA's legal responsibility to address the harms caused by climate change," said UCS's Rachel Cleetus. "This is simply a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry..."
The current changes proposed for the EV tax credit have no logic. The credit is virtually eliminated, punishing US manufacturing. The only current car that keeps the credit in 2026: a Honda made by GM in Mexico. But GM can’t get credits for their EVs, incl 1s made in US blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
Very Few People Will Benefit From the New EV Tax Credit. That is By Design.
Getting rid of EV incentives is a bad policy choice that will hurt drivers and our economy.
blog.ucs.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The current changes proposed for the EV tax credit have no logic. The credit is virtually eliminated, punishing US manufacturing. The only current car that keeps the credit in 2026: a Honda made by GM in Mexico. But GM can’t get credits for their EVs, incl 1s made in US blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
California can’t clean its air or slow climate change without switching from gasoline to electricity. But there’s a roadblock: the biggest car seller in the state is one of the most vocal opponents to a transition away from fossil fuels. blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
Why Does Toyota Oppose Clean Air?
There is no way to protect our health and our climate by simply making better gasoline cars.
blog.ucs.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
California can’t clean its air or slow climate change without switching from gasoline to electricity. But there’s a roadblock: the biggest car seller in the state is one of the most vocal opponents to a transition away from fossil fuels. blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
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We were learning how new technologies could improve mobility for communities. We were gaining insights on what transportation investments work best where. We were asking research questions that hadn't been asked before.
Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."
Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."
US DOT just cancelled $54 million in university research:
—UC Davis: $12m
—NYC City College: $9m
—USC: $9m
—NYU: $6m
—San Jose State: $6m
—U. of NOLA: $6m
—Johns Hopkins: $6m
All had committed the woke sins of studying how to make transportation less polluting and/or less inequitable.
—UC Davis: $12m
—NYC City College: $9m
—USC: $9m
—NYU: $6m
—San Jose State: $6m
—U. of NOLA: $6m
—Johns Hopkins: $6m
All had committed the woke sins of studying how to make transportation less polluting and/or less inequitable.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Defunds Woke University Grants
Grants were funding DEI & Green New Scam agenda that has nothing to do with transportation priorities of the American people
www.transportation.gov
May 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We were learning how new technologies could improve mobility for communities. We were gaining insights on what transportation investments work best where. We were asking research questions that hadn't been asked before.
Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."
Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."
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The last 100 days have been an unprecedented assault American science. Our scientists. Our institutions. And the people around the world who rely on it. We must stand united and speak up. Our collective future depends on it. #ScienceMatters savesciencenow.org
You Need Science. Science Needs You.
Supporters of science across America are uniting with one voice to send this very simple message to our elected officials: You need science. Science needs you. #ScienceMatters
savesciencenow.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The last 100 days have been an unprecedented assault American science. Our scientists. Our institutions. And the people around the world who rely on it. We must stand united and speak up. Our collective future depends on it. #ScienceMatters savesciencenow.org
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There's lots of uncertainty surrounding EV policy right now.
However, it's important to remember what we can be certain of: EVs are a critical technology for reducing pollution from transportation.
blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
However, it's important to remember what we can be certain of: EVs are a critical technology for reducing pollution from transportation.
blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
Electric Vehicles Help Combat Climate Change, Here’s Why.
97 percent of the country lives where the average EV is better than the most efficient gasoline vehicle
blog.ucs.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
There's lots of uncertainty surrounding EV policy right now.
However, it's important to remember what we can be certain of: EVs are a critical technology for reducing pollution from transportation.
blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
However, it's important to remember what we can be certain of: EVs are a critical technology for reducing pollution from transportation.
blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmu...
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"Here, we still want to cut global warming emissions by replacing polluting cars with clean vehicles and ramping up renewable energy to phase out fossil fuel powerplants," writes UCS's Daniel Barad from California.
The California Legislature: Where Global Warming is Real and Science Still Matters
How will the state continue to lead in matters of climate and clean energy?
blog.ucs.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Here, we still want to cut global warming emissions by replacing polluting cars with clean vehicles and ramping up renewable energy to phase out fossil fuel powerplants," writes UCS's Daniel Barad from California.
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President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, @gretchentg.bsky.social:
"Make no mistake, this administration attacks people who tell the truth, people who quietly save lives every day."
"Make no mistake, this administration attacks people who tell the truth, people who quietly save lives every day."
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, @gretchentg.bsky.social:
"Make no mistake, this administration attacks people who tell the truth, people who quietly save lives every day."
"Make no mistake, this administration attacks people who tell the truth, people who quietly save lives every day."
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MON at 9AM:
@weatherwest.bsky.social and terminated NOAA scientists Heather Welch and Kayla Ann Besong join to talk about the layoffs at NOAA and how the cuts are impacting essential work the organization does in CA and nationwide.
🌧️ Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
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@weatherwest.bsky.social and terminated NOAA scientists Heather Welch and Kayla Ann Besong join to talk about the layoffs at NOAA and how the cuts are impacting essential work the organization does in CA and nationwide.
🌧️ Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
buff.ly/qc7eyoN
Trump’s Mass Layoffs at NOAA Cut Into the Bay Area Weather Service | KQED
Hundreds of workers at the climate research agency are being fired, including at least three Bay Area weather service employees, raising concerns about NOAA’s ability to serve the public.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
MON at 9AM:
@weatherwest.bsky.social and terminated NOAA scientists Heather Welch and Kayla Ann Besong join to talk about the layoffs at NOAA and how the cuts are impacting essential work the organization does in CA and nationwide.
🌧️ Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
buff.ly/qc7eyoN
@weatherwest.bsky.social and terminated NOAA scientists Heather Welch and Kayla Ann Besong join to talk about the layoffs at NOAA and how the cuts are impacting essential work the organization does in CA and nationwide.
🌧️ Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
buff.ly/qc7eyoN
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This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social
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NEW: Campaign Legal Center files new lawsuit against Musk and DOGE on behalf of several advocacy groups, including the Sierra Club.
The suit alleges that Musk/DOGE are "lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power across the executive branch." 1/
The suit alleges that Musk/DOGE are "lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power across the executive branch." 1/
March 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
NEW: Campaign Legal Center files new lawsuit against Musk and DOGE on behalf of several advocacy groups, including the Sierra Club.
The suit alleges that Musk/DOGE are "lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power across the executive branch." 1/
The suit alleges that Musk/DOGE are "lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power across the executive branch." 1/
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Join UCS and allies to #StandUpForScience this Friday, March 7 in DC and around the country! We will be demanding funding for life-saving science, an end to censorship & political interference in science, and defense of diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility in science. Find a rally near you:
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
standupforscience2025.org
March 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Join UCS and allies to #StandUpForScience this Friday, March 7 in DC and around the country! We will be demanding funding for life-saving science, an end to censorship & political interference in science, and defense of diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility in science. Find a rally near you:
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"The Trump Administration can’t kill the transition to EVs but moves like this will likely make it harder for car buyers to switch to a cleaner car, hurting drivers’ pocketbooks and everyone’s health."
State-Based Clean Car Rules Save Money and Save Lives
A reversal will hurt drivers’ pocketbooks and everyone’s health.
blog.ucsusa.org
February 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"The Trump Administration can’t kill the transition to EVs but moves like this will likely make it harder for car buyers to switch to a cleaner car, hurting drivers’ pocketbooks and everyone’s health."
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UCS's new President @gretchentg.bsky.social joined @markey.senate.gov and @actonclimateus.bsky.social outside the EPA this afternoon to defend its staff and mission. Sharing that she was a federal scientist herself until a month ago, Gretchen went on to say,
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
UCS's new President @gretchentg.bsky.social joined @markey.senate.gov and @actonclimateus.bsky.social outside the EPA this afternoon to defend its staff and mission. Sharing that she was a federal scientist herself until a month ago, Gretchen went on to say,
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1/ Duffy’s first act at DOT is to transfer billions of dollars from driver’s wallets to oil companies. Clean car standards save drivers money at the pump, period.
➡️https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/sean-duffy-sworn-secretary-us-department-transportation-and-takes-immediate-action
➡️https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/sean-duffy-sworn-secretary-us-department-transportation-and-takes-immediate-action
January 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
1/ Duffy’s first act at DOT is to transfer billions of dollars from driver’s wallets to oil companies. Clean car standards save drivers money at the pump, period.
➡️https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/sean-duffy-sworn-secretary-us-department-transportation-and-takes-immediate-action
➡️https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/sean-duffy-sworn-secretary-us-department-transportation-and-takes-immediate-action
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We're not naming adults now because they're so young as to make their appointments embarrassing?
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We're not naming adults now because they're so young as to make their appointments embarrassing?
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And this one! (Which I promise is not 50% Greenpeace but rather nearly 150 different accounts. It’s just the weird algorithm Bluesky uses to make the graphic.) go.bsky.app/47xY8T8
January 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And this one! (Which I promise is not 50% Greenpeace but rather nearly 150 different accounts. It’s just the weird algorithm Bluesky uses to make the graphic.) go.bsky.app/47xY8T8
California just got approval to implement its Zero Emission Vehicle rules, but as @lauraklivans.bsky.social points out, CA setting car rules to reduce smog isn’t new, it has been working on this for 50+ years. www.kqed.org/science/1995...
Federal Government Approves California’s Ban on the Sale of New Gas Cars by 2035 | KQED
The regulations tackle the most polluting sector in California and the nation, and the Trump administration will likely challenge them.
www.kqed.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
California just got approval to implement its Zero Emission Vehicle rules, but as @lauraklivans.bsky.social points out, CA setting car rules to reduce smog isn’t new, it has been working on this for 50+ years. www.kqed.org/science/1995...