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David Pomerantz

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David Pomerantz

@DavidPomerantz

Exposing efforts by utilities and fossil fuel interests to undermine clean energy with @energyandpolicy. Personal account. DM for Signal info to chat securely.

Joined August 2008

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David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Mar 16
I started [gulp] a substack. It’s called Utility Watch, and will feature @EnergyandPolicy's research, with opinions and analysis from me. My first post is on utility profits, and why the politicians increasingly going after them are smart to do so.
Welcome to Utility Watch: Let's Talk Utility Profits
From utilitywatch.substack.com
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David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Aug 9, 2021
Imagine getting to be alive during the vanishingly thin slice of history where we understand the full gravity of the climate crisis and still have time to do something about it. Feeling grateful, fired up and ready to do the damn thing.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Nov 13, 2020
**ARIZONA** will have 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050, with interim targets in '32 and '40, per a bipartisan vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission today. The ACC will need to finalize it next year, but the votes should be there, based on what went down today.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Jun 27, 2022
Whispers: There's a commission in your state of 3 - 5 people who can shut down all the fossil plants and pipelines and replace them with clean electricity, and SCOTUS can't stop them no matter how much money the oil/gas industry gives to the Federalist Society.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Jul 1, 2022
If you’re the kind of person who is concerned about climate change and dismayed by today’s court decision, tomorrow’s a great day to find an organization in your state that’s working at the legislature or Public Utility Commission to speed up the transition to clean energy.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Mar 11, 2020
If only - and hear me out on this, please - if only there were an issue that Biden could place at the very center of his campaign to woo young voters. Something that young voters care about more than anything, because it imperils our future. Hmmm... HMMMMM... HMMMMMMMMMMM...
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Jan 12, 2023
Most people don't understand that if gas stoves turn into weaponized political symbols such that conservatives decide gas stoves are Good, and that reinforces for liberals that gas stoves are Bad... this is like a death blow for the gas industry.
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David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Jan 12, 2022
Was just happily reminded that virtually no one is fully pricing in the generational tsunami that is hitting HR departments as they cope with the fact that very few talented young people want to go work for corporations that are causing climate change.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Aug 24, 2019
Whoa. Dewey Square Group, the lobbyist firm arguing against a #climatedebate at DNC today, was paid over $800,000 to successfully lobby for a coal bailout in Ohio by utility FirstEnergy. WTF? energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-lo… @cleantechfacts @leahstokes @drvox
RL Miller aka RLMiller on BlueSkies
@RL_Miller
Aug 24, 2019
Replying to @RL_Miller @Tinapo and @DNC
first opposition speaker is Maria Cardona, who works at Dewey Square Group, a public affairs group (aka lobbyist). #ClimateDebate
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Dec 9, 2021
What fresh hell is this now? Dearest @HuffPost: Letting Shell use your platform to shift blame for climate change to pet owners for using plastic poop bags made from Shell's product is... not good. And it's not the values you espouse.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Aug 31, 2021
Entergy lied to New Orleans, promising their new gas plants would keep the lights on in a storm. Then they fought community groups who pleaded with officials to instead prioritize more resilient solutions like rooftop solar, batteries and microgrids.
Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses as New Orleans Goes Dark (Published 2021)
From nytimes.com
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Apr 27, 2022
A thread of people all saying Holy Shit at once in response to DeSantis veto of the FPL-written solar attack bill:
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Aug 19, 2022
For a number of reasons that have become increasingly clear in the past few months, I don’t think I’ve ever been so confident in the massive role that customer-owned energy like rooftop solar is going to play in powering this country.
David Pomerantz
@DavidPomerantz
Jun 21, 2023
Antonin Scalia making martinis out of ice from glaciers that will soon be melted due in no small part to his judicial activism, and then throwing 'em back with his conservative benefactors, is just a bit too much for me to take tonight. propublica.org/article/samuel…
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