Jamie Henn

Director, Fossil Free Media. Co-founder, @350 and @cleancreatives. You can’t blockade the sun.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

The sunlight never stopped flowing and the wind never stopped blowing

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Love that even the Houston Chronicle's obituary headline for Lee Raymond identifies him as a climate denier above all else

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Take that, you filthy rock

[Bloomberg @business]

Solar overtook coal in US power generation in May, the first time the renewable source bested the fossil fuel in a calendar month https://t.co/akKKHTz7oj

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Back when Energy Secretary Chris Wright was a fracking CEO, he was involved in a massive and ongoing effort to "educate" federal judges about the need to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate damages. https://t.co/nUO23NkRVJ

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

At this point, Chevron is basically on the ballot.

Vote accordingly.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Chevron is literally demonic, and if they choose the governor of the largest Democratic state in the country, we’re just actually fully fucked.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

There is wild disinformation being pushed by accounts like these about solar and farmland.

Solar uses roughly 0.1% of US farmland. USDA estimates even a large solar buildout would at most use around 1% of available land. And much of that could be dual use agrivoltaics.

Compare that with ethanol, which already uses 3-4% of US farmland and 40-45% of all corn production.

If anything, solar is helping keep family farms afloat by providing another source of revenue.

Influencers like these are just spreading disinformation for clicks.

(And of course, let’s prioritize solar development on rooftops, parking lots and brown fields, but don’t pretend this is some serious threat to American farming).

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

The land under these panels will never be farmed again.

Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites.

Why?

The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them.

In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides.

The fertile farmland is gone forever.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Another day of the Trump Admin finding every possible way to destroy the climate. https://t.co/mypM7sIE9d

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Here’s how Democrats should talk about climate: ground it in people’s lived experience, point out the clear villains, and describe the tangible benefits of action.

This ain’t rocket science. And it’s a hell if a lot better than staying silent.

Piece from @AaronRegunberg and me in Jacobin:
https://t.co/50jTJ7mPXx

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Solar panels don’t do this

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is repealing a rule that prevents power plants from releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic mercury and arsenic into drinking water.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Photo and reporting is from @Sammy_Roth’s great newsletter, quote from the indomitable @RL_Miller https://t.co/mvONFoIlyI

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

“I think Big Oil is choosing its governor.”

California’s largest oil driller just gave $500,000 to an independent expenditure campaign supporting Xavier Becerra.

California can’t afford a governor that’s in the pocket of Big Oil. They’ll push him to weaken environmental protections, slow walk clean energy, and look the other way when they gouge consumers at the pump.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Magaziner: Trump says wind and solar is the most expensive form of energy ever. Is that true or false?

Burgum: That’s true—

Magaziner: Not according to the Department of Energy under the Trump administration.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

The oil and gas industry has made $2.8 billion in *daily* profits for the last 50 years...I'd love to have a "tough couple decades" like that.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Suspending the gas tax ought to be combined with a big oil windfall profits tax. As you well know, big oil is raking in bonanza profits. Shell just announced a $7b profit last quarter. Would you support that?

CHRIS WRIGHT: Ah. The oil and gas industry has had a rough couple decades.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity

HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants.

I've opened an investigation. These companies need to pay their costs.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

If you're just catching up, in the past couple weeks Xavier Becerra has:

-Called for more oil drilling after taxing the max from Chevron

-Flipped on single payer after meeting with an industry lobbying group

-Had a campaign finance complaint filed against him

And now this:

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Africa holds 60% of the world's best solar potential & receives only 2% of global clean energy investment.

With the right finance, the continent could generate 10 times more electricity than it needs by 2040 – entirely from renewables.

Africa must be at the centre of climate justice.