BREAKING: EPA proposes limits to climate pollution from power plants; an urgently needed step toward protecting people from the devastating harms of climate change, from increasingly severe flooding, hurricanes and drought to worsening wildfires (thread)
Coal and gas-fired power plants are one of the largest sources of climate pollution in the U.S. They are responsible for about one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases as well as other smog-forming and toxic pollutants. The good news... /
Jan 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The methane released into the atmosphere this year will have a bigger effect on global temps over the next decade than CO2 from all fossil-fuel use in 2023. Food we eat is a major methane source & solutions can be wins for farmers, people, the planet. @Danone working on it (🧵)
Agriculture and livestock account for more than 40% of annual global methane emissions from human-related activities. Finding ways to reduce these emissions while still providing comprehensive sources of nutrition would be a major climate victory /
Sep 27, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: @NBCNightlyNews reports an extraordinary new @Ford commitment to electric vehicles and the high quality U.S. jobs they can bring. New $11.4 billion investments. 11k jobs expected when today's commitments are realized. The EV revolution is emphatically real (thread)
I thank my friend Bill Ford Jr. and his team for their leadership, making the largest single investments in manufacturing in the 118-year history of @Ford. Today's announcement builds on Ford’s earlier investments of $7 billion+ for 7k new jobs in EV manufacturing
Dec 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Congratulations to @RepDebHaaland for being named to lead @Interior, and for becoming the 1st Native American cabinet member in US history. An excellent choice for the department, which oversees our nation's vast public lands & plays a major role working alongside tribes (thread)
.@RepDebHaaland has been a leading advocate for New Mexicans’ health, climate and wellbeing through her support of rules to #CutMethane waste and pollution from oil and gas
Dec 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Outstanding news: President-elect Biden has selected @Michael_S_Regan to serve as EPA administrator! If you know him, I'm sure you're as thrilled as I am. A few reasons this is so encouraging...(thread)
.@Michael_S_Regan took the helm as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality in North Carolina during a difficult time in the agency’s history, after years of budget cutting and turmoil
Dec 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
McCarthy, Granholm, Buttigieg: These are brilliant choices. All have the stature, experience and vision that America needs. We can call breathe a little easier. Thoughts on each (thread)
It's been reported that President-elect Biden has chosen @GinaNRDC to be America’s domestic climate advisor. The fact that we’ll have a new position overseeing national climate policy demonstrates that the incoming admin will pursue ambitious action...
Feb 12, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The window of opportunity to combat climate change has not closed. A decade of extraordinary innovation has made the greening of the global economy not only feasible but also likely. But we're going to need negative emission technologies, or NETs, to make it happen...(thread)
To stabilize the total atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other GHGs, the world will have to reach net negative emissions, or taking more GHGs out of the atmosphere than are being pumped into it. Achieving that through emission reductions alone will be extremely difficult
