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Climate columnist @latimes.com, focused on clean energy. Dodgers fan, hiker, Disneyland aficionado. Trying to be good to people. Sign up for my twice-weekly newsletter, Boiling Point: latimes.com/boilingpoint

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Published: December 9, 2025 18:39

After 15 years leading the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Chuck Bonham will become the Nature Conservancy's California executive director: https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/fish-wildlife-official-retiring-21231178.php via…

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Published: December 9, 2025 18:00

Apparently lack of fly ash from the declining coal industry is one of the reasons the Highway 50 expansion project outside Sacramento is so badly delayed. Fascinating. https://www.abridged.org/news/investigation-delays-on-highway-50/

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Published: December 9, 2025 17:53

L.A.’s Scouting troops lost their camp in the Palisades. Now they’re working to heal the land https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-09/scouting-troops-work-to-restore-their-fire-stricken-camp via @nohaggerty.bsky.social

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Published: December 8, 2025 23:32

Climate advocates spend a lot of time debating the best way to talk about climate. I mostly think it is a waste of time! Lots of different messages resonate with lots of different people. Uhh that's my takeaway from "Train Dreams," streaming on Netflix:…

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Published: December 8, 2025 21:48

A Los Angeles artist has turned salvaged chimneys from homes destroyed in the Palisades fire into public art: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-05/salvaged-chimneys-from-palisades-fire-are-tangible-memorial-to-l-a-s-unspeakable-loss

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Published: December 8, 2025 20:23

Climate-fueled extreme heat is changing soccer. Every World Cup game next year will pause twice, in the middle of each half, for three-minute hydration breaks: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871622/2025/12/08/world-cup-2026-hydration-breaks/

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Published: December 8, 2025 17:17

Wrote about "Train Dreams," a new film about logging in the Pacific Northwest. There's a horrible wildfire and it made me think about climate change, and also how we talk about climate change. Great performances by William H. Macy & Felicity Jones too:…

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Published: December 6, 2025 17:58

L.A. City Council president moves to delay full Olympic wage boost for tourism workers https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-05/la-city-council-president-moves-to-delay-full-olympic-wage-boost via @suhauna.bsky.social

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Published: December 5, 2025 19:07

Epic @propublica.org / @highcountrynews.org series on the many ways Western ranchers run rampant over public lands, degrading ecosystems while the federal government helps them get away with it. Great work by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and company.…

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Published: December 5, 2025 19:04

A high-ranking Interior Department official and her husband own millions of dollars worth of Western ranch land and real estate, newly released financial disclosures show: https://www.publicdomain.media/p/budd-falen-financial-disclosure-interior

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Published: December 5, 2025 18:34

The infamous Ivanpah solar towers were finally going to close. California utility customers would save money, and birds would stop getting fried. Yesterday, it all came crashing down. The solar stupidity is blinding. Here's what happened:…

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Published: December 5, 2025 04:18

“Duffy’s eager to return to the 70s; Bobby Kennedy wants us back in the pre-vaccine 1940s; Trump wants to talk like a 19th century slave-trader.” @billmckibben.bsky.social on Trump’s photo op with the auto executives:…

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Published: December 5, 2025 00:29

It lives, it dies, it lives again. If you are sick of looking at those blinding towers, get used to it. California Public Utilities Commission voted today to reject PG&E's deal to close Ivanpah and lower electric bills. I wrote about what is going on:…

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:29

Al Gore not mincing words on Bill Gates: "I think that there’s some evidence that he is frightened of Donald Trump. As soon as Trump was elected, he fired most of his climate staff, and then began to try and get on Donald Trump’s good side."…

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:26

CA Legislature never ceases to amaze. After passing a major bill to boost housing development by limiting environmental reviews, they quietly approved a provision ensuring a single eight-story apartment tower opposed by Santa Barbara homeowners would face…

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:22

Utility company Southern California Gas is using ratepayer funds to incentivize Los Angeles wildfire survivors to rebuild their homes with gas appliances. And the California Public Utilities Commissions is letting it happen.…

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:07

Big if true: Clean energy start-up Zanskar says it's discovered a huge new conventional geothermal reservoir in Nevada. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/zanskar-claims-geothermal-milestone-nevada via @alexckaufman.bsky.social

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:06

Why did the Colorado River Indian Tribes declare the river a legal person? @ianjames.bsky.social spoke with Chairwoman Amelia Flores: https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-12-04/boiling-point-colorado-river-legal-person

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Published: December 4, 2025 19:55

Colorado doing more to crack down on gas utilities than California. Now requiring them to cut climate pollution 41% below 2015 levels by 2035: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/utilities/colorado-mandates-ambitious-emissions-cuts-gas-utilities via…

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Published: December 4, 2025 00:53

News, Climate & Our Constitution: The Value of Robust Climate Journalism to a Healthy Planet and Strong Democracy Starts in in a few minutes, at 5pm PT! Join me and @billmckibben.bsky.social & @adamlmahoney.bsky.social & @kylepope01.bsky.social:…

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Published: December 3, 2025 03:55

You are not going to find @thewaroncars.bsky.social, Disney's Cars Land and the future of vehicle electrification anywhere else. Read and subscribe, folks: https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/car-culture-disneyland [contains quote post or other…

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Published: December 3, 2025 02:45

Saudi Arabian foreign wealth funds having even partial ownership of CNN would be....something. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-02/paramount-warner-bid-saudi-money-comcast-wants-to-combine-with-nbcu via…

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Published: December 3, 2025 02:40

"As the sun sank low in the sky and my sweaty clothes turned from a consequence of heat exposure to a liability in the midnight cold, I reached a tipping point... Almost everything has a tipping point. If pushed beyond it, the chances of a full recovery…

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Published: December 3, 2025 02:17

Language matters. Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; it's now "National Laboratory of the Rockies." https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/01/national-renewable-energy-laboratory-name-change-trump-colorado/

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Published: December 3, 2025 02:08

I'm with @awalkerinla.bsky.social: Netflix sponsoring CicLAvia to promote "Stranger Things" is awesome, but at the same time: "No one needs to dream up imaginary monsters trying to murder our children, they're parked right there in our driveways."…