EPA’s deregulatory claim doesn’t survive its own cost-benefit analysis - Niskanen Center The impact analysis defending the decision as economically sound is based on best-case scenarios rather than regulatory best practices.

EPA's own baseline shows rescinding vehicle emissions standards costs society $180B.

To flip that to a "saving," the agency assumed $47/barrel oil.

Brent crude is now $106.

Trump's EPA is a sham.

www.niskanencenter.org/epas-deregul...

"The most striking thing about the memos is indeed nobody citing the dangers of climate change as a factor to even consider. ...The executive action would impose costs on business, and that’s all we need to know."

The future opportunity of our children being thrown away. Without a thought or a care. And Congress is allowing this.

Distributed batteries get legislative, utility lift in California SB 913 would designate residential batteries as resource adequacy capacity. Ava Community Energy’s SmartHome Battery program creates incentives for residential battery-sharing.

SB 913 is a no-brainer in California:
www.utilitydive.com/news/distrib...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.

I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.

Out in October with Random House.

The Paris transformation continues, unhindered by the culture of excuses, and self-sabotaging election results, that we’ve seen in too many other cities.

Six inspiring women. Blanco’s speech was poetic and intense.

Yuvelis Morales Blanco - 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Yuvelis Morales Blanco helped mobilize her community to prevent fracking from gaining a foothold in Colombia and defend the Magdalena River.

All of the Goldman prize winners are amazing. Six amazing women. Having heard her speech tonight, I have a feeling that Blanco’s waves are going far and wide. www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/yu...

Jim McGovern continues to go off:

"This farm bill is a disaster. It's awful. It's terrible. It's beyond words. It's a giveaway to Big Ag and chemical companies. There's actually liability protection in this bill for people who make pesticides. Like, who thinks like that?!"

Keep cooking, Jim!

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221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

For lawyers, this is the day's essential reading. Steve Vladeck: "In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

The golden arches d'Triomphe

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A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.

"It's actually enraging how the World Bank can suddenly change its mind about industrial policy like "Oops, for the past 45 years we systematically prevented you from using the most obvious tool for sovereign development, keeping you stuck in poverty and dependency, lol".- @jasonhickel.bsky.social

Huge kudos to @huisinglab.bsky.social for leading this through to approval. Gives us something to celebrate!

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

It will be interesting to see who applies for the Flat Earth Professorship in Earth and Planetary Science
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Inside the surreal anti-science conference where Trump’s EPA chief gave the keynote address "Essentially, the climate deniers are in charge now."

Unfortunately, this is very real and not from @theonion.com.

How many people will it take to treat 1.5 million acres a year in California with beneficial fire by 2045? CEPP releases a new study projecting an increase in the burn boss workforce of three to eight times as many as are currently qualified in order to accomplish the state’s wildfire resilience goals.

Blog post is here: cepp.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
Underlying paper is here: drive.google.com/file/d/141aG...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Guardian article on the new paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

This is the only thing musk will be remembered for.

He used to be so sweet. If it were not for that awful Kennedy, daisies would be sprouting all over.

Families across the U.S. are getting college acceptance letters — and tuition bills NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with economist Judith Scott-Clayton about the cost of college in the U.S. They discuss the difference between sticker and net price and the opaqueness of tuition costs.

To give a concrete example: California paid for 70% of the UC budget and 90% of the CSU budget until the 1980s; now it’s down to roughly 10% and 40% rsp. Students pay most of the difference.

One has to get paid a lot of money, as an ed economist, to not know this

www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

Jesus was crucified with two thieves, and remarked to one of them “Today you will be with me in paradise.” Which also might be soft on crime.

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Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme

DONT BE WEAK ON CRIME

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux

"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

NYT: "Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will 'Blockade' Straight of Hormuz After No Peace Deal Reached"

Short-term winner: US and Russian oligarchs.

Long-term winner: China and renewables.

Loser: US economy, households

He’s saying break up the monopolies, and then saying he does not mean municipalization. 🤷‍♂️ I won’t fault him for being a little random where there really aren’t a lot of easy options, but let’s just say deregulation has not always gone well.

Maybe you would like their likely predecessor La Poexe better.