Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they)

Founding Director @EndClimtSilence | Author "The Language of Climate Politics"

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

I am very happy to announce that "The Language of Climate Politics" has been shortlisted for the @upennlib Book Prize in Sustainability.

I'm honored to be in the company of @AkshatRathi, Rob Jackson, and @edwardhumes!

#ClimateChange

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

The conflicts of interest are completely out of control. We shouldn’t need to wonder whether a Cabinet Secretary did something because it profited his own family, because the family should be completely divested so there’s no conceivable way self-interest impacts policy.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SEI_Erickson I think I had two tweets after the one you answered. Here they are

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SEI_Erickson Also the capital expenditures involved in switching from ICE cars to EVs complicate the role of electricity prices, no?

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

I'm not sure I've seen @SEI_Erickson explain how #BAAJA's Disparate Treatment standard (let alone its permitting certainty provisions) don't lock in the permitting of fossil fuels in the same proportion as they've been permitted in the past 10 years?

https://t.co/ryy2bVZExY

[Peter Erickson @SEI_Erickson]

@JaneAFlegal The idea that BAAJA would be the end, that it "would lock in doing nothing" as Bill McKibben said, is so wildly off-base that it has finally caused me to start writing a letter to him.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SEI_Erickson Did you hear that Anthropic said outright in their S-1 that they wanted to use gas, not clean energy, and that they just made a $3.4 billion deal for behind the meter generators?

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SenCortezMasto https://t.co/ryy2bW0cnw

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SenCortezMasto @SenCortezMasto please vote NO on BAAJA. The bill will prevent future administrations from reversing whatever damage Trump and Miller do to our public lands and enshrine pollution in our energy mix for generations. Thank you in advance for your courage and leadership!

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@amyklobuchar @amyklobuchar please vote no on BAAJA! The bill doesn't level the playing field for clean energy; ironically it enshrines pollution in the US energy mix for generations. And we cannot trust Trump and Miller with the disparate treatment standard!

https://t.co/ryy2bW0cnw

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@brianschatz please ultimately vote no on BAAJA. The bill does not level the playing field for clean energy; it enshrines pollution in the US energy mix for generations. And we cannot trust Trump with the disparate treatment standard!

https://t.co/xFYx8AYQzI

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SenatorHick @SenatorHick please vote NO on BAAJA. It would allow the Trump ghouls to build on public lands and enshrine pollution in the US energy mix for generations to come. Thank you in advance for your courage and leadership!

https://t.co/xFYx8AYiKa

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@FrankPallone More here:

https://t.co/xFYx8AYQzI

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@FrankPallone @FrankPallone please vote NO on BAAJA. The bill would ironically help data centers procure gas for behind the meter power generation (there's no mandate that data centers connect to the grid but an exemption for expanding gas pipelines). Thank you for your courage and leadership!

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SenatorShaheen @SenatorShaheen, please vote no on BAAJA. It is a Stephen Miller endorsed bill that will ironically enshrine pollution in our energy mix for generations to come. Thank you in advance for your courage and leadership!

https://t.co/xFYx8AYiKa

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SenatorAndyKim @SenatorAndyKim please vote NO on #BAAJA. It is a bad bill that will lock in pollution for generations to come. Thank you in advance for your courage and leadership!

https://t.co/xFYx8AYiKa

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

"The result of making these energy permitting policies permanent is that future administrations will be
unable to effectively reduce GHG emissions."

So agencies hands will be tied EVEN IF Congress passes #climate legislation.

#BAAJA is a terrible bill that must be stopped.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

"BloombergNEF warned data center gas plants could raise U.S. power emissions 10%"

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@SiegelScribe @RepMikeLevin Thank you, @RepMikeLevin! You are 100% correct that the permitting certainty language presents a real problem for climate rulemaking moving forward.

The "disparate treatment" standard needs your attention too. 👇

https://t.co/sD6QlxoMFS

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

Despite the Manager’s Amendment, #BAAJA is still a terrible bill for the climate.

If it passes it will become illegal for agencies to amend or revoke energy permits, or update their rules, to deal with #ClimateChange, even if Congress enacts future climate legislation.

🧵

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

Caught up w/@RepMikeLevin, a closely watched House Dem and clean energy and climate leader who remains "genuinely undecided" on BAAJA after managers' changes. He told me transmission provisions have "improved" but certainty language, while better, "still needs to be tightened."

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

This is why I oppose the BAAJA permitting reform bill.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) @DoctorVive]

@JasonRylander GOOD QUESTION

[Aru Shiney-Ajay ☀️ @aru_shineyajay]

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