A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
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If someone ever questions if technologies can be the fundamental driver of climate action, please share this story with them. www.linkedin.com/posts/akshat...

Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday

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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

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Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

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New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵

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Today marks a major development in U.S. climate policy.

Gov. Newsom, the CA Assembly & Senate just released the final cap-and-trade—now called cap-and-invest—reauthorization bill: AB 1207. 1/

#climatesky #energysky

There are so many lessons here that could shrink the time to get renewables built with big community benefits from decades to years.

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A long Cato white paper reviews the history of pollution regulation and what we know about the health effects of fine particulate matter
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This is a nice summary of the Spanish grid operator's reports on the May Iberian blackout. As with any big event like this, there were many interdependent causes, but the TL;DR is that 3 nuclear and 7 gas plants failed to provide the voltage control that the grid operator contracted them to provide.

Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air

Holy forking shirt balls

"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Serious question: what’s to blame here? Is it mainstream media? Social media? Partisan polarization? Something else? Because something changed here and we need to understand the cause.

Examining the impact of industrial policies on innovation in a global automobile industry, from Panle Jia Barwick, Hyuk-Soo Kwon, Shanjun Li, Yucheng Wang, and Nahim B. Zahur https://www.nber.org/papers/w33138

Teaching Econ 101 just got harder.

Landlords of identical rental units pass through idiosyncratic cost increases (due to property tax variation) to renters thereby violating the law of one price.

Uber and Lyft got away with denying NYC drivers millions in payouts by locking them out of their apps