#EarthDay is an opportunity to take part in collective action to heal our planet.

It's also a chance to celebrate the work that communities have done to push our leaders to build climate solutions that do more to protect our health, writes our Dr. Tonya Calhoun. fierceforblackwomen.com/2024/04/21/thi…

Well, this sounds suboptimal

New study finds climate change likely to do $38 trillion in economic damage a year by 2050.

(Total current world gdp is $101 trillion)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

So often, people think it’s a choice between eg mining rare earth minerals for clean energy or … nothing. Piling up unrecyclable solar panels or … nothing.

In reality it’s a choice between the most costly impacts we’ve ever experienced or something measurably better.

HERE WE GO! California joins the fight to #MakePollutersPay for climate impacts.

CA, NY, VT, MD and MA now all have “climate superfund” bills and more are in the way.

Time to bold Big Oil accountable for the damage they’ve done.

Love seeing Jigar Shah on TIME's list of 100 most influential people of 2024. Jigar has been such an important force in the growth of clean energy over the last 20 years, and he's getting due recognition. bit.ly/49ImSen

Highly toxic chemicals like lead, mercury, PFAS, TCE and BPA do not belong in food. We shouldn't be exposed to toxic chemicals at any level, especially these toxic chemicals that are common in the food supply chain. #WhereIsFDA

NEW blog⬇️ blogs.edf.org/health/2024/04…

One of Sweden's big steel mills will replace its blast furnace with two electric arc furnaces ... and by doing so reduce the *country's* greenhouse gas emissions by 7%. Wild. ssab.com/en/news/2024/0…

I wrote about Houston 100 years from now maybe

houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…

While I'm cleaning out my tabs, an IEEFA.org analysis finds that fossil fuel stocks have underperformed the market over the past 10 years, even taking the war bump of the last two years into account. ieefa.org/sites/default/…

Good morning with good news: Sales of zero emission heavy duty vehicles skyrocket 120% in EU in 2023.

43% of city buses sold in the EU in 2023 were electric.

5% of light and medium trucks & 1% of heavy trucks were electric.

EV buses & trucks coming!
theicct.org/publication/ra…

The wait is almost over! EPA is releasing its final clean car standards soon. Stricter limits on tailpipe pollution are a win-win-win...cleaner air, a safer climate *and* hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs created.
bit.ly/3VmvvHJ

So stoked for the Festival of Books! I'll be moderating a discussion with Rosanna Xia, Dan Egan, Jeff Goodell & Edward Humes about their climate change books, and also answering your questions about my climate reporting. Buy a ticket here: latimes.com/fob

NEW: International Energy Agency's latest Global Methane Tracker update shows that fully implementing existing pledges to #CutMethane would deliver the majority of cuts needed to align with 1.5°C.

We've come a long way on methane action. Now, there's more momentum than ever🧵 iea.org/news/after-sli…

HUGE NEWS on the American Climate Corps: Clean energy jobs are officially coming to a community near you ⚡️
grist.org/politics/jobs-…

Join EDF’s Economics team and leading economists at our virtual Economic Seminar series to explore the economics research and insights significant to U.S. domestic and global climate policy! Sign up to receive invites to our upcoming seminars: mailchi.mp/edf/edf-econom…

As I tell Alan Murray here the o&g methane agreement is the most important action announced at any COP in terms of the near-term effect it will have on temperatures. MethaneSAT will provide the data needed to track follow-through. fortune.com/2024/03/11/spa…

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

Read my column on the role of utility companies in the clean energy transition in the last print edition of Los Angeles Times printed at the paper’s classic Olympic printing plant: latimes.com/environment/ne…

6 years ago EDF’s President Fred Krupp presented his The Audacious Project idea to launch MethaneSat: A satellite that would map, measure + track methane emissions from space.

Today, that idea becomes a reality. Watch the livestream here: vitalsigns.edf.org/methane-sat-up…