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Tony Dutzik
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Tony Dutzik
@FrontierTony
Assoc. Director and Sr. Policy Analyst, Frontier Group, part of @TPINNetwork. Transport, energy and climate policy, mostly.
Boston, MA Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Spend four years alienating the only groups that have ever done successful public education/mobilization around clean energy (enviro & grassroots climate orgs). Deemphasize their concerns in public. Then lament your lack of field strength. Brilliant.
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"People walk or bike to work every day in Boston. The city should put the pedal to the metal to keep them safe on our streets."
- The @bostonherald Editorial Board
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Scoop: Last night Microsoft confirmed it bought thousands of acres from a sitting U.S. senator’s family to build a data center complex
Heatmap News@heatmap_news
Q: Which tech-boosting U.S. senator’s family just sold 3,500 acres to Microsoft for a data center in Wyoming? A: Read @jaeporeon’s latest for The Fight: heatmap.news/plus/the-fight…
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@SamEBEnergy Agreed. But also the coalitions around building good/stopping bad are not overlapping circles. And many people want to build good so that they can have less of the bad. I'm less inclined to think of it as zero-sum and look for opportunities to build resources, energy, commitment.
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@FrontierTony Because advocate time and energy, as well as financial resources for non-profits, are in fact quite limited
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I'm not sure how many share my view, but I believe environmentalists (and i consider myself one) need to fundamentally shift their advocacy to be pushing building the things we want, instead of blocking the things we don't want
Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal
Environmental power was built around blocking (divestment campaigns, pipeline fights, litigation). That built real machinery: money, volunteers, primary challengers who could punish a wrong vote. The pivot to "build clean things" hasn't built an equivalent machine yet.
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Years ago, we covered a slag processing facility in Pittsburgh that did this. Routinely coated neighbors' cars, toys and houses with dust and handed out $50 car wash vouchers around the neighborhood afterwards. Got away with it for a long time.
Ari Peskoe@AriPeskoe
On Feb 5, the Ozaukee Press (Wisc.) ran a cover story about dust from construction of a Vantage data center. Three weeks later, Vantage responds by offering free car washes. This anecdote brought to you by a new Sierra Club lawsuit about inadequate environmental review.
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“To hear that they just decided to continue burning coal indefinitely was kind of a slap in the face,” said Angie Mummaw, a Montgomery County resident & organizer for AppVoices. ✍️ Katie Myers for @grist
grist.org/energy/the-nat…
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@dwallacewells This analysis only covers the power sector, though. The OBBBA (and other administration actions) laid waste to transportation electrification, which is our biggest source of emissions.
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Maybe climate people should spend a little less time arguing about who sold out who and what sandbagged climate progress and which was the original sin of the IRA if a deeply skeptical and vengeful president did everything to destroy the bill and left 3/4 of its effects intact.
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One bit of conventional climate wisdom over the last year has been that Biden’s I.R.A. approach to decarbonization failed politically. But if Trump went on a war path against it and was barely able to cut a quarter of its impact…are we sure that’s a failure?
Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal
New @MIT_CEEPR analysis by Lily Bermel: OBBBA preserves 67-74% of clean energy & emissions benefits the IRA would have delivered thru 2035. Greater ambition on climate means *removing barriers to building (including tx)* not just restoring credits. ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper/g…
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@SimonMahan How much of the ramping down was matched by ramping up of on-site diesel generators?
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Lots of hot takes on the grid emergency and heat wave. Here are the data. Virginia (likely) ramped down massive data centers to provide power elsewhere. We need more renewables and transmission.
That's a July 4th Independence Day I'm absolutely celebrating.
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Your periodic reminder that we'd be getting crushed by higher demand and prices right now, and we would have had to build out dramatically more infrastructure to meet that demand, if not for all the distributed solar on the grid right now
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It's extremely telling that the same people championing Abundance are also bemoaning the so-called solar crisis in Spain.
Billy Fleming@JooBilly
I'm still not clear on what the energy crisis is in Spain. They have so much solar power that it can't be exploited by private equity firms or investor-owned utilities? People are getting paid to use solar at peak production times? This is bad now?
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Yes. Pushing all the chips (money, natural resources, etc.) to the middle of the table.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
In the newsletter, I wrote about one worrying, plausible path. One in which the AI buildout continues to be seen as a quasi- nuclear arms race against China, and policymakers feel compelled to impose austerity on the non-AI economy to free up real resources for the buildout.
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In the newsletter, I wrote about one worrying, plausible path.
One in which the AI buildout continues to be seen as a quasi- nuclear arms race against China, and policymakers feel compelled to impose austerity on the non-AI economy to free up real resources for the buildout.
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Nauseating how much discourse about the Euro heat wave here is ppl in the US smugly blaming cultural preferences, climate concerns etc. about AC for Europeans sweltering. Whipped-up culture war sociopathy seemingly designed to blame a whole continent for its own suffering
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New polling from Blue Rose on behalf of Inclusive Abundance: To the extent there is a tradeoff between conservation and new energy projects, voters prefer protecting the environment by a +32 margin. (This holds for all demographics and income levels.)
theabundantfuture.substack.com/p/new-polling-…
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I'd like you to meet to the Boston Boundless Trail
- 90.9 miles, passing through every city/town that borders Boston
- Over 100 green spaces along the way
- Public transit connections
- Food and drink at many points
Grab maps and directions and WALK HARD
bostontrails.org/bostonboundles…
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Amazing chart. Energy *importers* have invested about 5x as much in renewables and nuclear as in fossil fuels since 2022. Energy *exporters* have invested about twice as much in fossil fuels as in renewables and nuclear.
Dave Jones@CleanPowerDave
Fantastic graphic... The world's energy importers are investing at MASSIVE scale into cleantech. No one wants to be dependent on imported fossil fuels.
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i don’t think people realize how insane the produced water situation has become out in the permian
Carlos Nogueras@carlosnogueras_
New: Oil companies, running out of space to store brine that bursts free with other fossil fuels, are using AI to scour the surrounding geology — hoping they can get to suitable underground formations faster than the competition as production skyrockets texastribune.org/2026/05/21/tex…
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@jaeporeon I’m curious what you mean - like, an example?
Difficult issues sometimes clarify what people think is really important. Makes you have to decide.
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so many ppl’s stances on data centers are contradictory to their other beliefs. it’s like a Rorschach test for whether u rly care about what u care about
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btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
molly taft@mollytaft
NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators
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