Justin Gerdes
I publish the Quitting Carbon newsletter. Subscribe: https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/. Former Managing Editor, Energy Monitor. Send story ideas or tips: justingerdes@gmail.com or Signal: JustinGerdes.85
- @americancleanpower.bsky.social California's Wes Venteicher writes about a proposal in Senate Bill 254 in which "California wants to use public-private partnerships to cut financing costs for new transmission." www.cleanpowercalifornia.org/californias-... 🔌💡
- California state Sen. @joshbecker.bsky.social just introduced SB 943, which "proposes making changes to electricity rates to help manufacturers and large commercial companies switch to electricity for industrial heat," reports @mariagallucci.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... 🔌💡
- "The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told me, part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs," reports @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington... #ClimateSky
- "If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?" writes @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...
- "State lawmakers want gas companies to give New Yorkers more notice when they’re planning to dig up a gas line — and a chance to consider cheaper or cleaner alternatives," reports @colinreports.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/l... 🔌💡
- New @aceee.org report: "Utility energy efficiency programs ... save energy for a median cost of only $21 per megawatt-hour, the report found. That’s less than half the cost of generating electricity with even the least expensive new gas-fired power plants." www.aceee.org/press-releas... 🔌💡
- The California High-Speed Rail Authority completed its Southern Railhead Facility: "a major milestone that allows California to begin receiving and staging materials needed to install high-speed rail track and systems along the California high-speed rail corridor." www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/03/g...
- "Australia has emerged as a 'global proof point' of a major structural change in electricity grids around the world, with grid scale batteries overtaking peaking gas plant output in its three biggest state grids." reneweconomy.com.au/global-proof... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
- "One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door ... kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check." www.eenews.net/articles/sta... by Pamela King
- Legislation to be introduced in the House today "seeks to curb the executive branch’s power to claw back previously-granted permits, protecting energy projects of all kinds from whiplash every time the political winds change," reports @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/fre... 🔌💡
