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

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

We just disrupted a disgusting congressional briefing that tried to greenwash the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA).

BAAJA is the love child of the Trump Administration, Big Tech, the fossil fuel industry, and industrial megadevelopers.

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

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[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

We just disrupted a disgusting congressional briefing that tried to greenwash the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA).

BAAJA is the love child of the Trump Administration, Big Tech, the fossil fuel industry, and industrial megadevelopers.

[Pete Sikora @PeteSikora1]

AGs of CA, NY, MA, WA, CO, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, VT & DC v. #BAAJA: “We ask Senate leadership delay the upcoming vote to allow continued discussion & stakeholder engagement to protect our natural resources, historic & tribal sites, & state regulatory prerogatives.”

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

@SEI_Erickson Then I don’t know what you mean by “fundamental incentives.”

[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 Especially when we’re about to seat an incredibly blue Congress.

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

“Getting more renewable energy online doesn't tackle climate change if you simultaneously open the faucet wide for the burning of more fossil fuels. And unfortunately, this bill does exactly that.”

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

This is why I oppose the BAAJA permitting reform bill.

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

@SEI_Erickson Well, anytime anyone says we must open the taps for much more fossil fuel infrastructure to pour out because that’s what’s feasible? That sounds like doomerism to me.

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

@SEI_Erickson Why are the fundamental incentives for hyperscalers to stay off the grid not dispositive but the incentive of a clean energy price signal will dismantle a $20 trillion global infrastructure?

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

@SEI_Erickson Wait, you believe that fossil fuel infrastructure is just going to dismantle itself because of price signals?

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

@SEI_Erickson Well, I don’t go in for doomerism disguised as pragmatism, sorry.

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

@SEI_Erickson And, of course, if BAAJA is enacted I fully expect Trump’s EPA to issue determinations on all that behind the meter gas, turning them into permits that can never be revoked again except for “immediate” harms, which of course doesn’t include climate change, at least for now.

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

@SEI_Erickson Well, anyway, it’s largely immaterial. Much of the data center build out will have been completed by the time the grid gets built out thanks to BAAJA.

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

@SEI_Erickson Which is to say they are discussions about a fantasy world that doesn’t exist.

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

@SEI_Erickson Anyway, the IPCC said already back in 2023 that we had too much fossil infrastructure to halt global heating at 2C. So discussions of the relative scale of that infrastructure’s expansion are like medieval debates about the amount of God’s body in the bread of the Eucharist.

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

@SEI_Erickson BAAJA doesn’t impose costs on hyperscalers when they connect data centers to the grid? I thought we were talking about prices and how they drive behavior?

[Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ @JasonRylander]

If BAAJA is really bipartisan, why won't Republicans vote for a better version in January?

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

@SenatorAndyKim Hello again, Senator! I should also say that I know you want to do something for your constituents on affordability. But this bill is not it.

[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.

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

@SenatorShaheen Hello again, Senator! I should also say that I know you want to do something for your constituents on affordability. But this bill is not it.

[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.

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

@FrankPallone Hello again! I should also say that I know you want to do something for your constituents on affordability. But this bill is not it.

[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.

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

@SenatorHick Hello again, Senator! I should also say that I know you want to do something for your constituents on affordability. But this bill is not it.

[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.

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