@RobKleeTweets

Former Commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Energy & Environmental Protection. Now Lecturer @YaleFES and @YaleLawSch. Tweets are all mine.

 New Haven, CT
Joined February 2014
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Wind, solar, and battery storage dominate new resource proposals in the ISO New England Interconnection Request Queue. Resources proposed as of January totaled 31,840 MW. Learn more: iso-ne.com/static-assets/doc…
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Today @POTUS and @VP announced the American Climate Corps — an initiative to train young people for careers that help tackle climate change. This is an important step forward, and wouldn't be possible without the organizing efforts of young people across the country.
President Biden Archived
@POTUS46Archive20 Sep 2023
Today, we are mobilizing the next generation of clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience workers. Join us at whitehouse.gov/ClimateCorps
Biden-Harris Administration Launches American Climate Corps A workforce initiative that will train young people for careers in the growing fields of clean energy and climate resilience whitehouse.gov/ClimateCorps

ALT Biden-Harris Administration Launches American Climate Corps A workforce initiative that will train young people for careers in the growing fields of clean energy and climate resilience whitehouse.gov/ClimateCorps

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Every "but what about...?" argument against human-caused climate change is already covered by @skepticscience's handy list; so why won't it convince people? Because it's never been about science or facts. It's solution aversion so any excuse that justifies that position will do.
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Indeed. We are not as addicted to fossil fuels as some might want you to think. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Numbers Show We’re Not as Addicted to Fossil Fuels as You Think

Much of the energy from burning coal, oil and gas is simply lost as waste heat, meaning a switch to renewables isn’t that big a leap

bloomberg.com
Hannah Ritchie
@_HannahRitchie31 Jul 2023
A common confusion is that to decarbonise, the world will need to produce the equivalent of coal, oil & gas in the form of low-carbon energy. That's not true. Most fossil energy gets wasted. In the US, just one-third gets turned into useful services. The rest is wasted as heat.
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FEMA and Corps of Engineers are focusing on centralized fossil rather than distributed solar + batteries in rebuilding Puerto Rico's fragile grid -- wrong move from climate and environmental justice perspectives, writes @RuthSantiagopr in Sabin Center guest blog.
Sabin Center@SabinCenter2 Aug 2023
🇵🇷 Guest Blog: USACE & #FEMA promote #fossilfuel dependence & a centralized grid in #PuertoRico. Ruth Santiago explains how this approach will cost lives: buff.ly/3OD0ETA
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Best quote in government goes to Commissioner Clements in her statement on interconnection: "Staff has been working nights and weekends for months, their families and friends have been subjected to interconnection policy discussions at the dinner table, their toddlers know...
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Here's the best, accessable, review of AMOC science you're likely to see this week:
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣@rahmstorf28 Jul 2023
Here's a thread in pictures about the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC which is making headlines this week. I've studied this topic since 1991 and will show key data and models & some video. Let's go: observed temperature trend since 1901 from nature.com/articles/nclimate… 🧵1/x
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FERC Chevron doctrine fight arrives at Supreme Court ift.tt/Hd8nqW3

FERC Chevron doctrine fight arrives at Supreme Court

Utilities are wading into a high court slugfest over the power of federal agencies to legally defend rigorous environmental rules.

eenews.net
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🎺🎺🎺 FERC will release new standards for utility and RTO generator interconnection processes. A tiny bit of background:
@FERC
@FERC20 Jul 2023
Sunshine Notice | July 2023 Commission Meeting ferc.gov/news-events/news/su…
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What are the key findings of the 2023 #GlobalCommons Stewardship Index? 1) Rich countries bear major responsibilities for domestic and international spillover impacts on the Global Commons.  gcsi.unsdsn.org

Global Commons Stewardship Index 2024

The Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index provides the latest information on countries’ domestic and spillover impacts on the Global Commons.

gcsi.unsdsn.org
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Reminder: the whole anti-ESG campaign has been created and pushed by fossil fuel interest groups such as the American Petroleum Institute thehill.com/policy/equilibri…
Thomas Marois@Thomas_Marois16 Jul 2023
In the US, ... 'Evidence suggests that the hearing was being pushed by companies opposed to ESG because it might hurt their businesses.' Follow the money on ESG attacks - on.ft.com/3OgM2Js
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A great thread on work led by @MadedduSilvia that we reference A LOT about the electrification potential in the industry sector. Spoiler alert: nearly all industrial heat demand can be electrified.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow5 Jul 2023
"Electrification is for buildings and cars but not for industry" we sometimes hear. Not so fast: Research by @PIK_Climate suggests that 78% of Europe's industrial energy demand (excl. feedstocks) is electrifiable with existing tech and up to 99% with tech under development. 🧵
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so many of the policy-relevant journal articles by economists on climate are not in econ journals
John Bistline@JEBistline29 Jun 2023
New in Science: Our multi-model comparison of the Inflation Reduction Act looks at its emissions and energy system impacts, showing that economy-wide emissions may drop 43-48% below 2005 levels by 2035 with accelerated clean energy deployment. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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.@T4America's analysis of last year’s awards found that the amount of funding being sought for zero-emissions bus projects well exceeded the amount of funding available, with only 33 percent of applications receiving grants. bit.ly/44iBUVI
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Time for a bit of climate hope. Solar power is the fastest growing energy technology in history, and wind is not far behind. This graph shows how rapidly different energy technologies expanded after reaching their first exajoule of energy production, on a logarithmic scale.
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This report from New Orleans is consistent with my recent article about the inadequacies of US laws in protecting chemical and waste management facilities from extreme weather events worsened by climate change. bit.ly/3HLEIRA

Waste and Chemical Management in a 4°C World

Many chemicals and hazardous substances are kept in places that can withstand ordinary rain, but not severe storms or floods. If these events occur and the chemicals are released, people and the...

scholarship.law.columbia.edu
Tristan Baurick@tristanbaurick23 Jun 2023
A hurricane could spark a chemical disaster so massive that no corner of New Orleans would be safe. According to the Chalmette Refinery’s Risk Management Plan, an accident could unleash a fast-moving and potentially lethal gas that could reach anywhere in the metro area. (🧵1/7)
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Is the impact of wildfire smoke persistent enough to affect agricultural yields too? Have we seen data on that yet from, say, California Central Valley?
Aaron Binkley@agbinkley9 Jun 2023
This is solar. This is solar on Canadian wildfire smoke. Any questions?
Solar production curve on a sunny day in May.

ALT Solar production curve on a sunny day in May.

Solar production curve degraded by Canadian wildfire smoke.

ALT Solar production curve degraded by Canadian wildfire smoke.

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Hey media - every single article you write about the wildfire smoke should mention the role of climate change in making the fires worse and causing this. See @capitalweather for how to appropriately discuss this.
Capital Weather
@capitalweather6 Jun 2023
Replying to @capitalweather
Does climate change have something to with this? Yes. Record heat in Canada has helped fuel the fires. And the fire situation in Canada is unprecedented. 6/ xitter.cf/JimTeskeNC9/status/166…
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