Climate change social scientist. Collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. Director, @ClimateSSN.bsky.social And @climatedevlab.bsky.social
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu CSSN.org personal account; reskeets NE endorsement
Timmons Roberts
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Nice points Scott.
"Compared to most of our New England neighbors, our state has also under invested in our bike and pedestrian network. This has negative implications for our collective public health, tourism marketability, and talent recruitment/retention."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/12/m...
Big Oil gets hundreds of billions per year in "pollute-for-free subsidies," says @whitehouse.senate.gov.
Now the fossil fuel industry is asking for an even bigger handout: "to operate outside the civil law, free of consequences."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/11/s...
Ceremony today dedicating statue of Ellison "Tarzan" Brown outside the Westerly train station. Brown, a Narragansett Indian from R.I., won the 1936 and 1939 Boston Marathons.
"federal agencies will now have to proceed with permitting wind projects using the existing statutory and regulatory framework.. each developer will be able to make the case for permitting their individual project based on the facts and the law,”
Could be very big
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This is actually quite informative on heat and performance/risk.
And nearly all #WorldCup matches "face the risk of climate-amplified heat"
We gotta solve this problem. Aint gonna be easy.
Anyone who cares about a changing climate needs to plough their way through this to see the machinations of US fossil fuel businessmen to keep their mines etc in operation and keep taking in the cash.
If local anti-offshore wind groups wonder who they have gotten into bed with, here he is.
In our research, he's at the center of anti-wind network
Plus, "SPN’s approach to energy policy contradicts its claim to promote policies based on free market principles"
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"an important next step toward campus decarbonization and energy resiliency: As we move toward our pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, Brown will take a major step forward by creating a modern, sustainable thermal energy system."
Kudos Brown
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One more step.
We need a judge to give SouthCoast Wind back the federal permit they were awarded 18 months ago.
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Scott Wolf is preparing to step down after 27 years as executive director, helping to shape the modern Ocean State.
David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...
energyandpolicy.org
today.brown.edu
With significantly less pushback than prior offshore wind projects, coastal regulators gave their final approvals for the SouthCoast Wind project.
