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12 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
More great coverage of the new Howarth-Jacobson "blue hydrogen" paper in the NYT.

A problem cosplaying as a solution.

nytimes.com/2021/08/12/cli…
Fun thought exercise: Read the subhead, swap out "natural gas" for "hydrogen" and you are essentially in a time machine to 2009.

How about we not ask Big Oil to promote climate solutions and then retail their press releases and then announce oh snap actually that makes it worse
"Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought"
Should have tagged @howarth_cornell and @mzjacobson

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14 Aug
COLONOSCOPY PSA for everyone age 40 and over*

*(with special message for #adoptees)

So I spent the last two weeks waiting for results from the pathology lab after my colonoscopy on 7/29 and I’m now here to tell you why you need to follow me into that procedure room, friends.
I got the results yesterday. One of the two polyps found and removed from my body was almost certainly NOT going to turn into my assassin. But the other one was of the kind that can and do.

But it’s out now. And that means that mf-er is not going to be the cause of my death.
Here are the three great things about colon cancer. (All the other things about it are wretched and miserable.)

1) Unlike almost all other cancers, colon tumors go through predictable, progressive stages of growth and development before becoming deranged psychopaths.
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12 Aug
New long-anticipated paper on the mirage of “blue hydrogen” by ⁦@howarth_cornell⁩ and ⁦@mzjacobson⁩ dropped this morning. Here’s a good plain English summary:

UK plan to replace fossil gas with blue hydrogen ‘may backfire’ theguardian.com/environment/20…
And here is press release from Cornell and link to original paper. Which is a fantastic piece of science:
Key point: By “may backfire,” the Guardian means “will make climate change worse instead of better-just like fracking before it” and not “it’s stupid so it won’t happen,” which is the kind of backfire I’m working for.
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12 Jul
Here's an explainer thread on today's bombshell exposé from our partner @PSRenvironment on the secretive approval and use of highly toxic PFAS chemicals as ingredients in #fracking fluid.

Let's start with @HirokoTabuchi's story in NYT, which is fantastic

nytimes.com/2021/07/12/cli…
As @HirokoTabuchi notes, @EPA approved the use of these chemicals for fracking 10 years ago, over the grave concerns of its scientists. We are just finding out about it now bc fracking ingredients are trade secrets. The oil/gas industry enjoys exemptions from federal...
environmental laws that otherwise mandate disclosure of any inherently toxic chemicals entering the shared environment.

But my friend, crackerjack investigator @DustyHorwitt, ferreted out 1000s of pages of heavily redacted documents via FOIA requests filed in 2014 and...
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11 Jul
Big news for @FERC watchers and pipeline fighters 👀

US Court of Appeals just revoked approval of an in-service gas pipeline in MO and IL, ruling that the gas utility had failed to prove need.

Case could mark tipping point for future pipeline approvals.

stltoday.com/business/local…
This is the 65-mile, two-year-old Spire pipeline that runs north into IL farm country from St Louis and was built over the objections of farmers/landowners whose land (and drainage) was wrecked.
Spire had effectively stalled formal challenges to the pipeline’s 2018 approval via the FERC rehearing process until the construction was all done in 2019.

So now what?
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10 Jul
ICYMI: good news from our Appalachian friends:

⁦@EPA⁩ recommends that Army Corps of Engineers not grant Mountain Valley Pipeline stream crossing permit

Unrelenting activism did this.

And it took a FOIA request to unearth the EPA communique. virginiamercury.com/blog-va/epa-re…
This does not cancel the MVP project but is a huge setback.

It takes a village to kill a pipeline.

Thank you to all the Virginia and W Virginia pipeline fighters! @JonSokolow @geoyapti @clean_virginia @stopthemvp @AppVoices (reply with any groups or citizen heroes I missed)
It’s really worth reading the EPA letter to the Art Corps:

“EPA has identified a number of substantial concerns with the project as currently proposed, including whether all feasible avoidance and minimization measures have been undertaken, deficient characterization…”
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9 Jul
I admit: this news—long-predicted by @IthacaCollege faculty—has been retraumatizing for me. When I realized last summer that my workplace had become dehumanizing, I did so as a single mom…
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…putting two kids through college by myself. As a cancer survivor whose academic job provides health insurance for us all.

I did land in a better place, but so many of my colleagues—who lost jobs and insurance policies in the middle of a pandemic—have not.
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