Kendall Dix
@kendalldix.bsky.social
Climate policy at @taprootearth.bsky.social. Former cook. Former fisheries and EJ organizer. KC born. LLM in food and ag policy.🌹🌱
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Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...
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"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household."
Public power is inevitable.
Public power is inevitable.
Democrats flip two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission • Georgia Recorder
Democrats have flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, which is currently an all-GOP panel. The PSC regulates Georgia utilities.
georgiarecorder.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household."
Public power is inevitable.
Public power is inevitable.
Real shame to see radical centrists like spanberger being so divisive the day before an election. As a swing voter, I find it incredibly alienating that she puts purity politics over reaching out and making compromise.
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Real shame to see radical centrists like spanberger being so divisive the day before an election. As a swing voter, I find it incredibly alienating that she puts purity politics over reaching out and making compromise.
So excited for this report to come out. We are going to need a massive reboot of the offshore industry if/when this country wants to tackle the climate crisis in the future. And it’s going to have to be led by the public sector.
The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
climateandcommunity.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
So excited for this report to come out. We are going to need a massive reboot of the offshore industry if/when this country wants to tackle the climate crisis in the future. And it’s going to have to be led by the public sector.
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Important legal victory for climate and for disadvantaged communities in Louisiana. #ClimateInTheCourts
www.eenews.net/articles/lou...
www.eenews.net/articles/lou...
Louisiana court scraps Commonwealth LNG permit
The ruling effectively blocks construction while state officials study the project's climate and community impacts.
www.eenews.net
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Important legal victory for climate and for disadvantaged communities in Louisiana. #ClimateInTheCourts
www.eenews.net/articles/lou...
www.eenews.net/articles/lou...
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This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
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CCI’s newest report analyzes the limits and possibilities of CBAs to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, deliver environmental justice, and build labor power across the supply chain in the energy transition. climateandcommunity.org/research/cbas/
Community Benefits Agreements
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements to exert control over their futures.
climateandcommunity.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
CCI’s newest report analyzes the limits and possibilities of CBAs to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, deliver environmental justice, and build labor power across the supply chain in the energy transition. climateandcommunity.org/research/cbas/
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In every country green energy projects are bringing cheap electricity, growth and jobs.
By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.
Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.
Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In every country green energy projects are bringing cheap electricity, growth and jobs.
By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.
Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.
Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, officials said reut.rs/46JB5cL
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, officials said reut.rs/46JB5cL
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apnews.com/article/trum...
AP: Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
AP: Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.
apnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
apnews.com/article/trum...
AP: Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
AP: Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade
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Read my analysis here www.ft.com/content/6ff9... and reporting on Trilogy here www.ft.com/content/8951...
Trump’s resource nationalism is the worst of all worlds
Demand for rare earths is greatest in the clean energy sector that the US president is intent on dismantling
www.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Read my analysis here www.ft.com/content/6ff9... and reporting on Trilogy here www.ft.com/content/8951...
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Nope, Energy Sec'y Wright, offshore winds in fact blow in winter. 1st year of operational data from NY's South Fork Wind project shows a 47% capacity factor in the year ending June 2025, with performance highest in the winter. Coal's avg capacity factor: 42%.
Wright says it’s not windy in winter. Data says otherwise.
Stats from South Fork Wind's first year undermine the Energy secretary's assertions that offshore turbines don't operate well in the winter.
www.eenews.net
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Nope, Energy Sec'y Wright, offshore winds in fact blow in winter. 1st year of operational data from NY's South Fork Wind project shows a 47% capacity factor in the year ending June 2025, with performance highest in the winter. Coal's avg capacity factor: 42%.
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Working as designed. The grid has more or less been made into an engineering and financial system designed by salesmen to ensure they could use us to subsidize the costs of factories and businesses. Always one-way, never the other.
“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”
I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?
www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?
www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers
New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.
www.eenews.net
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Working as designed. The grid has more or less been made into an engineering and financial system designed by salesmen to ensure they could use us to subsidize the costs of factories and businesses. Always one-way, never the other.
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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
October 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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NEW INVESTIGATION
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California
By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.
capitalandmain.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW INVESTIGATION
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
This is really good.
In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.
Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition
thebaffler.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is really good.
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It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"
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Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats
Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
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Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
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Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
My overly simplistic reading of this is that our constant exposure to industrial chemicals is giving us all cancer.
Breast, thyroid, and colon cancer rates are skyrocketing in young adults. Some of my colleagues break down the reasons why:
www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My overly simplistic reading of this is that our constant exposure to industrial chemicals is giving us all cancer.
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In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g