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29 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This article is spot on. FERC has the potential to be one of the most impactful climate agencies in the Biden administration. Look forward to working with them. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
That's in part because so many of the barriers to deploying cleaner, cheaper energy sit at the nexus between state and federal policy. @FERChatterjee is exactly right that FERC uniquely has the ability to free up (some) of those barriers. Image
But it's also because historically, FERC has done more to green our electric grid than any other agency. Order 888 (coupled with the '92 EPACT) is the primary reason why our grid emits 900 lb CO2/MWh today instead of 1300 it did then.
Because in the power sector, pro-market = pro-low marginal cost generators = pro-clean energy. FERC's mandate to ensure affordable, reliable energy is inseparable from a push to cleaner low & zero-GHG generation. And @RichGlickFERC understands that.

Watch this space. /fin

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28 Jan
Expect to see a lot more stories like this. But let's also use this to have a more sophisticated conversation about why the rising tide of cheaper, cleaner energy - like all prior energy transitions - doesn't necessarily lift all boats. Brief thread: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
1/ First to state the obvious: the domestic fossil fuel industry in the US wouldn't exist without massive subsidies. $650B/year according to the IMF. imf.org/en/Publication…
2/ That in turn means that the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy is delayed by those market distortions. Taking away the subsidies is smart economic and environmental policy. It is FANTASTIC that @POTUS is doing so.
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26 Jan
@RepJasonSmith. Your staffer didn't get this email from @RepCindyAxne's staffer because you're a Republican. It came to you because you earned your power through a democratic election and then used that power to try and overturn our democracy. Not once, but three times.
First, when you signed onto the Amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking them to throw out the certified results of free and fair elections in GA, MI, PA and WI. projects.propublica.org/represent/memb…
Second, when you voted to reject the will of the voters in Arizona in the late hours on January 6th, AFTER terrorists had attacked the Capitol seeking to accomplish the same anti-democratic ends. clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll0…
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25 Jan
When Trump won in 2016, lots of Americans knew who he was. They listened to what he said and understood the stakes. So they peacefully protested, marched and organized. @GOPLeader didn't.

That is a judgement on him, not us.
@GOPLeader is descended from a long strain in American history who excuses violence from the privileged as the result of non-violent protest from the less fortunate. Equating an attack on the Capitol to Women's Marchers with #resist signs is only the latest incarnation.
Take this, for example. Do you read this as a righteous call for good trouble, or as cancel culture? @GOPLeader argues the latter.
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21 Jan
@GOPLeader's utter lack of a moral or factual north star will be his legacy.

400K dead of COVID. Massive WH criminality. Surging white supremacy. Record-breaking deficits. Frayed international alliances. January 6.

And a man with the gall to call himself a leader says this.
Look: unity is important right now, and some may see this as provocative. But we cannot move forward if we just sweep everything that got here under the rug. We tried that after the Civil War. It didn't work.
A commitment to unity and accountability shouldn't be partisan. But as long as it is, we have to be call out those fanned the flames of insurrection and now call for bipartisan unity to avoid personal accountability.
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21 Jan
A few thoughts and some reflection on the day while memories are fresh. In electing @JoeBiden, we just elected a very good man to be our President.

We just might have elected a great one. Thread:
1/ I woke up this morning reflecting on a fascinating and thoughtful interfaith conversation we had last night with @edstetzer (and others), focused on how we heal from January 6. For the full discussion, see here. facebook.com/RepSeanCasten/…
2/ My opening comments focused on the fact that America has only twice been attacked from within. At Fort Sumter in 1861 and earlier this month.
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18 Jan
Since you asked, here is peer reviewed research of large scale epidemiological data showing that COVID-19 spread significantly slowed down in states that mandated mask wearing vs those that didn't. healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
In other words, people are alive today because other people paid attention to science and wore a mask. That is nothing to be angry about.
Here is a similar study looking at international data that found slower spread in countries with more cultural receptivity to mask wearing. researchgate.net/publication/34…
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