What a difference a decade can make...

'No crop is more wasteful or more useless than turf that’s never harvested and never feeds, clothes or fuels anyone or anything, while producing no revenue.' Los Angeles Times editorial board calls for California to ban nonfunctional grass lawns: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Every EV model is cheaper to fill up than any gas car, in every state. energyinnovation.org/publication/ho…

🚨 BREAKING. July 2023 was the hottest month on record for the Earth in the modern era - and likely the hottest month in the last tens or hundreds of thousands of years. It was a whopping 0.33C warmer than the next warmest month. This is a climate crisis. 🔥🔥🔥

' #Siri : please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States'

Yes, that is an actual bike path.
Yes, those are actually 8 protected lanes for driving.
— Lakeshore Drive, #Chicago

Without Amara Strande & her family we wouldn't have a ban on #PFAS in MN.

Without PFAS she wouldn't have needed to fight.

MCEA was included in this powerful The Washington Post story and will continue her fight against these chemicals.

washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Scientists warned about #ClimateChange in 1965. Nothing was done

'A report to the US president sounded an alarm — humankind was ‘conducting a vast geophysical experiment’ by burning fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with an ‘invisible pollutant.’'

knowablemagazine.org/article/food-e…

Important thread with great puns.

Read this. Probably more important than most things you will do today.

#BREAKING : #SCOTUS *stays* Judge Kacsmaryk’s mifepristone ruling in full pending appeal.

This means there will be no change in the access to or availability of the medication anytime soon.

March was the 529th straight month hotter than the 20th century average. If you're younger than 44, you've never seen a cooler-than-normal month
washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…

Please don't use hydrogen for household heating. Please.

And just like that, four years to the day that the original 100% clean energy legislation was introduced, Governor Tim Walz signs it into law.

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'Building more roads to prevent congestion is like an obese man loosening his belt to prevent obesity'

~ Lewis Mumford

In 2022, heat pump sales exceeded gas furnace sales in the U.S. The era of the heat pump has arrived (🧵):

States can now make the best use of resources & focus on the “boulders,” the small number of policies that have the biggest impact on the clean energy transition thanks to guidance from the Energy Policy Simulator 👏🏛️
#energytransition #climatesolutions tinyurl.com/ms4bmn9x

With free and public data, the Energy Policy Simulator allows states to understand which policies will:
🌎 Cut the most emissions
👩‍🔧 Create the most jobs
🧑‍⚕️ Save the most lives
tinyurl.com/yu7t2pn8

Gov. Tim Walz just signed the bill codifying abortion rights into law. It's effective immediately.

'The message that we're sending to Minnesota today is very clear: your rights are protected in this state.'

NEW: Minnesota's DFL-controlled Senate has passed a bill to steer electric utilities toward a carbon-free grid by 2040. After a 34-33 party-line vote, the measure heads to Gov. Tim Walz, who is expected to sign it into law.

Here's what the bill does: minnpost.com/environment/20…

Such a powerful speech by Jen McEwen that really sums up how I am feeling about the #100percentMN Clean Energy Bill passing. #hopeful