julia dionne
@juliadionne.bsky.social
climate pr person 🌎 I like biking, earrings, books, and the celtics 🍀
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i have a newsletter about books: https://juliadionne.substack.com/
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i have a newsletter about books: https://juliadionne.substack.com/
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The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
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NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances - Inside Climate News
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
insideclimatenews.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
On point as always
Electricity prices are soaring while utilities rake in billions in profit. Here's three ideas to bring bills down:
1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day
2) Stop utility profiteering
3) Keep climate impacts off bills
My latest in @theatlantic.com.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day
2) Stop utility profiteering
3) Keep climate impacts off bills
My latest in @theatlantic.com.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs
For starters, recognize that clean energy is cheap energy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
On point as always
California appreciation post
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
California appreciation post
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.
Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.
Opinion | America’s Caregivers Are in Crisis
Caregivers are at the brink of despair.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.
Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.
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GOOD NEWS ALERT: The California Public Utilities Commission just approved two programs to help get window heat pumps and 120 volt induction stoves onto store shelves across the state 🎉
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
California To Launch Window Heat Pump and 120 Volt Induction Pilot Programs
California Market Transformation Administrator to launch two programs helping more homes electrify appliances
earthjustice.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
GOOD NEWS ALERT: The California Public Utilities Commission just approved two programs to help get window heat pumps and 120 volt induction stoves onto store shelves across the state 🎉
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
One of the best books I've read all year!
After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
One of the best books I've read all year!
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This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
$32 Million Commitment Announced to Electrify Cooking Appliances in NYCHA Buildings Through Induction Stove Challenge - NYSERDA
The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) today announced that the next phase of the ...
www.nyserda.ny.gov
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
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What you don't talk about still can hurt you.
The big issue Democrats have stopped talking about
A Washington Post analysis of Democratic lawmakers’ appearances and social media posts show they are going quiet on climate.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What you don't talk about still can hurt you.
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To the Democratic pollster and data pundit, “moral claims and exercises of imagination, claims about what is possible come with glaring asterisks. New tactics and strategies are by definition unvalidated, and in that sense they are admittedly a risk. But there are risks the other way, too.”
How to Lie with (Political) Statistics - Boston Review
Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.
www.bostonreview.net
September 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
To the Democratic pollster and data pundit, “moral claims and exercises of imagination, claims about what is possible come with glaring asterisks. New tactics and strategies are by definition unvalidated, and in that sense they are admittedly a risk. But there are risks the other way, too.”
Great reporting as always
Electricity prices are rising everywhere, with some experts referring to them as the "new eggs" in the cost of living crisis.
For older people on fixed incomes, it's yet another strain on their finances. Women in particular are worried.
19thnews.org/2025/11/olde...
For older people on fixed incomes, it's yet another strain on their finances. Women in particular are worried.
19thnews.org/2025/11/olde...
‘Everything goes up except income’: Older women are struggling to keep up with rising electricity costs
As rates spike across the nation, penny-pinching isn’t feeling like enough for people on fixed incomes.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Great reporting as always
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Huge deal!
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
OH MY GOD, DDHQ CALLS IT AND DEMS FLIP BOTH STATEWIDE ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Huge deal!
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
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I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
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Protesters gathered on the road leading from Oakland to Coast Guard Island, opposing the deployment of CBP and other federal agents sent to crack down immigration enforcement in the Bay Area.
🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors
🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Protesters gathered on the road leading from Oakland to Coast Guard Island, opposing the deployment of CBP and other federal agents sent to crack down immigration enforcement in the Bay Area.
🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors
🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors
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Can we trust the courts to uphold climate laws? Really good analysis: atmos.earth/political-la...
Can the Courtroom Save the Climate? | Atmos
Injunctions and other legal wins are just the start.
atmos.earth
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Can we trust the courts to uphold climate laws? Really good analysis: atmos.earth/political-la...
Cannot wait for the new lily king
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Cannot wait for the new lily king
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Thank you @governor.ca.gov for vetoing #SB34, which would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to our air
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
October 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thank you @governor.ca.gov for vetoing #SB34, which would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to our air
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
Incredible news.
Gov. Newsom should sign AB 1167 to keep costs down for utility ratepayers by ensuring they are not forced to subsidize utilities’ political lobbying and PR, our @denisegrab.bsky.social writes at @legal-planet.org.
legal-planet.org/2025/10/08/s...
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Signing AB 1167 Would be a Win for Energy Affordability - Legal Planet
AB 1167, which seeks to protect ratepayers from subsidizing utility lobbying, still awaits Governor Newsom’s signature.
legal-planet.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Incredible news.
Carbon Bros is amazing
The sheer amount of content coming out of @drilledmedia.bsky.social is incredible. A whole bunch of great interviews partic on climate obstruction and tactics. Haven't even finished the great 'carbon bros' series yet, too much good stuff damn it
pca.st/podcast/35c7...
pca.st/podcast/35c7...
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Carbon Bros is amazing
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"She has hosted a weekly food pantry from her garage since 2021, stocking it with donations from local food banks, grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, and anywhere else she can get free food for her community."
civileats.com/2025/03/24/t...
civileats.com/2025/03/24/t...
This San Francisco Food Pantry Is a Labor of Love
A food pantry in the city's Outer Richmond district continues to serve its community years after its pandemic origins.
civileats.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"She has hosted a weekly food pantry from her garage since 2021, stocking it with donations from local food banks, grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, and anywhere else she can get free food for her community."
civileats.com/2025/03/24/t...
civileats.com/2025/03/24/t...
....... it's so dumb ............
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid
If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
www.canarymedia.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
....... it's so dumb ............
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
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President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of domestic violence crimes, saying that were it not for “things that take place in the home they call crime,” the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., would have resulted in a bigger statistical reduction in crime.
Trump downplays domestic violence in speech about religious freedom
In a speech about religious freedom, Trump talks about domestic violence and crime stats in Washington, D.C.,
bit.ly
September 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of domestic violence crimes, saying that were it not for “things that take place in the home they call crime,” the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., would have resulted in a bigger statistical reduction in crime.
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I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
September 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.