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To celebrate the 50th year of #EarthDay- this week we are sharing our Top 50 Environmental Campaign victories over the years. We are proud of our legacy of student organizing on protecting the environment and stopping #climatechange.Help us celebrate by retweeting your favorites!
Victory Spotlight #1 goes to @UWashpirg and their campaign to ban single use plastic bags which passed through the legislature this year! 
Victory Spotlight #2 goes to @NJPIRGStudents and their win this year to ban single-use plastics in all @Rutgers_Newark campus stores- including dining halls! #EarthDay
Thought -- and read both tweets in the thread: climate folk are far, far ahead on grid work than they are on tailpipe work with the public. Short thread.
tell the public the electricity produced in the US has to be 100 percent clean by 2050, and they nod and say yeah, sure, or they say "you mean 2030!"
tell the public the cars they drive must be 100 percent clean by 2030, and they Do. Not. Get. It.
tell the public the cars they drive must be 100 percent clean by 2030, and they Do. Not. Get. It.
Ban your coal fired plant? most of 'em don't care.
Ban your F-150? AAAACKKK. Resistance. Oh hell no. Molon labe. All that.
Ban your F-150? AAAACKKK. Resistance. Oh hell no. Molon labe. All that.
#Sb100 Kentucky's rooftop solar bill passed #kyga19 last night.
The house voted to strip protections favored by the state’s rooftop solar industry before adopting it in a 55 to 36 vote. The measure now moves to the governor’s office for a signature.
wfpl.org/kentucky-rooft…
The house voted to strip protections favored by the state’s rooftop solar industry before adopting it in a 55 to 36 vote. The measure now moves to the governor’s office for a signature.
wfpl.org/kentucky-rooft…
Kentucky Solar Industries Association President Matt Partymiller: “Monopolies won today.” Partymiller said. “It is a blow to every Kentuckian who wants to choose solar as his or her energy provider.”
Chris Whelan with Louisville Gas & Electric:
“We’re pleased that’s where it’s headed. We’re pleased for our customers, that [the credit] will be determined in a way that looks at all the benefits and the costs and is distributed fairly.”
“We’re pleased that’s where it’s headed. We’re pleased for our customers, that [the credit] will be determined in a way that looks at all the benefits and the costs and is distributed fairly.”
Kentucky's Senate Bill 100 could determine the future of residential solar in the state. It was introduced Monday, voted out of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday and only hours later passed out of the Senate on a 23-12 vote. wfpl.org/senate-passes-…
Also, The Ky House committee on natural resources is scheduled to take up Senate Bill 100 on 9 a.m. Thursday. #SB100
Important memo to journalists & others reporting on passage of #SB100, California's clean electricity law signed by Gov. Brown yesterday.
What law does: requires 100% of CA electricity sales supplied by "eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources" by 2045.
What law does: requires 100% of CA electricity sales supplied by "eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources" by 2045.
What the law does *not* require:
(a) 100% renewable electricity (it specifies renewables AND "zero-carbon resources")
(b) elimination of fossil fuels from electricity (it requires carbon-free, not no fossil)
(c) 100% clean *energy* (the law is about electricity, not all energy)
(a) 100% renewable electricity (it specifies renewables AND "zero-carbon resources")
(b) elimination of fossil fuels from electricity (it requires carbon-free, not no fossil)
(c) 100% clean *energy* (the law is about electricity, not all energy)
I have read stories making all of the above statements in the past 24 hours, all of which are incorrect. The bill is deliberately focused on achieving 100% "carbon-free" electricity and is intentionally flexible. It will be up to state agencies to define "zero-carbon" further.
