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Wyatt Sassman
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Building democracy through the energy transition. Law professor at University of Denver, where I teach the Environmental Law Clinic.

Papers here: https://ssrn.com/author=2711298
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BRICS are greening. Our report is out
netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...
-New wave of pro-active green industrial policies to develop potential
-Surge of major green industrial assets & electricity shift
-study cases of co-development of green industries within BRICS
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 7
NEW: BRICS in Brazil,&under Brazil's leadership is going green
-Sovereignty now includes green energy
-Energy transition investment surge in China, Brazil, India,UAE,S Africa,Indonesia(none in Russia)
-First joint statement on climate finance in road to COP30
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
wyattsassman.bsky.social
Great write up, thank you Justin!
June 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
wyattsassman.bsky.social
🎉🎉🎉
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
wyattsassman.bsky.social
Thanks for highlighting, can’t wait to read it!
June 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
wyattsassman.bsky.social
One thing I’ll be reading closely for is whether we should also be thinking about political-economic justifications for community benefits — such as democratizing control over electricity production — and whether than impacts the study’s analysis.

But that’s for after family vacation!
June 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
wyattsassman.bsky.social
I’ve only been able to skim it, but I appreciate that the study appears to take seriously communities’ civic obligations around development and role as stewards of their environment.
Screenshot of text from the article: Do the parties in question—the community members or the community as a whole—possess a special moral obligation that they are being influenced to ignore or violate? It is plausible to think that they do. In a democracy, citizens are morally obliged to take their civic obligations seriously [36]. Alongside activities such as voting, being informed and thinking conscientiously [37], pp. 86–87, and as part of their civic obligations of political participation [38], citizens should try to make judicious decisions about local issues, including major industrial developments, weighing up the public goods and costs they involve. They should then act on the basis of these judgments as they undertake civic activities like voting, protesting, writing submissions and deliberating publicly with other citizens. They may also have an informal role as custodians or stewards of their locale, its environment and its traditions—caring for their community, its culture and values, and the ecology it shares with other living creatures [39,40].
June 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM