@ClimateHawkVote is running a survey asking our folk, among other things, their climate bill wish list. Listed 12 things including carbon price/ tax/ fee and dividend.
this AM I went on a ranty thread on The Atlantic's latest bit of California-bashing, called "The California Dream is Dying," based on 1960s-70s tropes and whines. And I learned way too much about compounding pharmacies!
A compounding pharmacy is someone who makes their own Rx from raw ingredients. Turns out it's useful for things Big Pharma won't touch.
and in my thread I used the example of a grower of artisanal opium poppies making making morphine... turns out that DEA is OF COURSE going to regulate/ ban that.
Let's analyze the latest entry in the Eastern Publications Trash California sweepstakes, shall we? This one, in a place called "The Atlantic," called "The California Dream is Dying." bit.ly/3wTaHYv
Apparently there is no magazine called "The Pacific," but readers of "The Atlantic" CRAVE California-bashing just like NYT readers do. In fact this piece is currently the most-read piece on "The Atlantic."
And to reach this conclusion that "The California Dream is dying," the writer cites: 1. LA NIMBY homeowners 2. Central Valley Repubs 3. The owner of something called a compounding pharmacy
hey. Y'all in Cal (or #energytwitter generally) listening? I want to talk a moment about #AB1139, an anti-solar bill. And some other stuff. Thread, beginning.
Years ago Cal passed laws to allow solar owners to sell their excess sunshine back to the grid, aka Net Energy Metering. And it worked. #AB1139
In fact, NEM worked so well that the investor owned utilities - Cal PG&E, Sempra/ San Diego Gas & Elecric, SoCal Edison -- got cranky because it was cutting into their profits.
So NEM was revised to be somewhat less generous to homeowners, and that's called NEM 2.0. #AB1139
short thread on #SB467. If you follow California folk, you are seeing lots of tweets on it. What is it? Simply THE MOST GROUNDBREAKING CLIMATE BILL EVER.
#sb467 will do 3 things: create 2500' setbacks from oil wells to people's homes; ban fracking and manage the decline of California's powerful oil industry; and provide for a just transition for oil workers.
That's a lot to unpack, so let's talk about each one.
1st, public health. It's simple: when you live next to an oil well, you get sick. Many states including Texas have setback requirements. California has none.
gonna do a thread on the @DNC removal of fossil fuel subsidy language, and why it's, ah, sorta suspect. Sit down. #EndFossilFuelSubsidies
@DNC and if you read my tweets yest., you know that it's politically popular, both Biden and Harris campaigned on it, and removal of #EndFossilFuelSubsidies language is just mystifying. But let's look carefully at the DNC stated reason.
@DNC as quoted in @blkahn excellent piece yest. bit.ly/3hpmDdX the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies language was included in a manager's mark "by mistake" and removed later by agreement of the Biden/Bernie campaigns. I'm gonna go into some process deets, bear with me.