Climate Cabinet Action

13 days left until Election Day - I chatted with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social & @heatmap.news on Monday about what I'm watching. heatmap.news/shift-key-15...

We're < 2 weeks away from Election Night, when the biggest climate opportunity is on the ballot since the Inflation Reduction Act passed. The latest @heatmap.news podcast w/ @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social & @spears.bsky.social offers insights on races to watch & what's at stake tinyurl.com/3mp7y48z

We're just a few short weeks away from Election Night, when we have the biggest opportunity for climate since the Inflation Reduction Act passed. Our @spears.bsky.social joined the Energy Central team to walk through what's at stake, what to watch, and what we're hearing from candidates.

"Fewer than 25 races out of more than 7,000 legislative seats could determine whether Democrats gain five new trifectas, or none at all," @climatecabinet.org's @spears.bsky.social told @dangearino.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/1709202... 🔌💡

What should state policymakers do when data centers come calling? I talk to someone with a clear plan for ensuring that data centers benefits the grids & communities where they locate: www.volts.wtf/p/what-shoul...

I find it mind-numbingly boring to talk about large language models and the air-conditioned warehouses full of computers that big tech companies use to develop them, but even I thought this was a well-grounded conversation on pragmatic ways that state policymakers can deal with data centers.

Today on Volts: What should local officials do when a data center comes calling? With Saleem Chapman, I walk through @climatecabinet.org's comprehensive blueprint: what to require of them before they're built and when they are running, so that they benefit communities, not just investors.

Michigan primary: We are watching AP estimates that have Dems with a 46% higher turnout than R voters.

Want to run for elected office as a climate champion? Join Junior Ezeonu from our team and @lcv.org for training to prep for a campaign! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On Thursday, I'm recording a podcast with Saleem Chapman of @climatecabinet.org about their work on data centers, specifically, what states ought to be doing about data centers -- what policies they ought to have in place, and why. Got questions?

Arizona's AI data center boom is cauasing rates to go up. APS (and TEP has the same number) wants regulators to approve a 45% rate hike for data centers and ~14.5% for households with a ruling expected right around Election Day, locking in rates for years. 🧵

Our @spears.bsky.social was on @cnbc.com talking data centers! The speed & scale of their development is overwhelming our regulatory system, the public is angry & elected officials are stuck between a rock & a hard place. We need systemic reforms to protect consumers & climate tinyurl.com/3cuawvwp

You can't talk about energy w/o talking about data centers-- they're wreaking havoc across the US. Today we have a new resource to help tame that turmoil. Check out our report on how lawmakers can regulate data centers in a way that actually protects consumers & the environment tinyurl.com/4npnrnmy

Are you coming to Chicago for Climate Week? Here’s where we’ll be - come say hi! 1/3: Aspen Ideas, Wednesday 7/22 @ 3:15: The Home Economics Case for Electrification. RSVP here: www.aspenideas.org/pages/aspen-...

Our Exec Director @spears.bsky.social joins Molly Wood on the Everybody in the Pool podcast to explain why some of the most important climate decisions are happening far below Congress—in mayor’s offices, PUCs, land commissioner races, county commissions & state legislatures tinyurl.com/3h2z5vby

Here's the next paper in our Taming Data Center Turmoil series! It examines how hyperscalers break our regulatory framework. A system designed for slow, predictable growth is facing a huge wave & it's overwhelmed. We need systemic reforms to protect consumers & the climate from the coming tsunami

Congratulations to Climate Cabinet-endorsed candidate, Anita Gonzales, for winning her primary! With this win, Anita has shown that voters will back clean energy champions who fight to lower families’ bills.

We’re hiring a Michigan State Lead! This is a high-impact role for someone who knows Michigan politics, understands how climate progress gets made in state legislatures & can build trust with lawmakers, coalition partners, advocates & funders job-boards.greenhouse.io/climatecabin...

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@spears.bsky.social in @thehill.com: Don't sleep on the power of state & local officials to get constituents off the fossil fuel roller coaster. They largely determine our electricity mix, public transit access & housing options. Smart policy in these 3 areas shields ppl from insecure fossil fuels.

A big win last night in Oregon - congrats, Jamie!

Congratulations Climate Cabinet-endorsed candidate, Jamie Collins, for winning his election to become a county commissioner in Deschutes County, Oregon!

Congratulations to Climate Cabinet-endorsed candidate, Brittany Bloam, for winning her primary!

And we have our first win of the night! Congrats Brittany in PA HD 45 - winning with 60% of the vote & counting.

Want to run for office? It can be helpful to be endorsed by prominent organizations in your area, especially if those endorsements come with assistance for your campaign. Check out this @lcv.org webinar to learn how to make it happen! lcv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Climate disasters continue to destabilize insurance markets & raise costs for families. The climate crisis is an affordability crisis. Thankfully, CO lawmakers funded a new roof fortification program that builds off other successful models. This bill will promote climate resilience & lower premiums.

In June, @leadlocally.bsky.social is hosting a free, online candidate training for climate leaders that want to take the next step towards running for office. Whether you are just considering, or already announced, the Run for Climate training is for you: runforclimate.org

“We literally don’t have a full and comprehensive system for monitoring insurance market data. There’s so much salience on this issue that [insurance] departments of various ideological leanings are at least finding data collection to be in their interests.” @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social

What if you signed up for our Run for Climate training series during Earth Week?? Talk about synergy! https://actionnetwork.org/forms/run-for-climate-interest-form-spring-2026/

"If a company wants to build a data center in NC they can. They must simply pay their own way & stop shifting the cost onto you me & families like ours. North Carolinians can end up footing the bill 2x thru incentives & subsidies that never contemplated projects like these" @pratherfornc.bsky.social

Hello from Climate Week! Today is Transportation Day. Highlights from today’s panel with @dave.bzky.team, Darwin Moosavi & Jeff Tumlin. 1. Policy solutions to move billions into zero carbon transportation (via state budgets). 2. Use dollars better: simplify gov’t priorities to deliver services.

“The subway is operating better today than it did when it opened in the 1970s” - Jeff

This is great news from Virginia! State-supported intercity bus routes are a critical component of any comprehensive state-wide transit system. This is particularly critical for keeping small towns and rural communities connected to each other and neighboring urban communities.

The Salt River Project elections this week were historic. Let’s keep going in Arizona: donate here to win the next “weird utility race” against TPUSA - the Arizona Corporation Commission in November secure.actblue.com/donate/lower...

donate here to win the next “weird utility race” against TPUSA - the Arizona Corporation Commission in November secure.actblue.com/donate/lower...

Shoutout to www.azpowerpac.org

Arizona results are in: OUR CLEAN ENERGY CANDIDATES WON AT THE SALT RIVER PROJECT

Trifecta control in Wisconsin is absolutely on the table in November.