Mark Olalde

I report: @ProPublica.

I teach: @Cronkite_ASU.

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

I returned to Cima Dome yesterday to pay my respects for the first time since I watched its famous Joshua tree forest burn in 2020. @NatlParkService estimates 1.3 million Joshua trees died in the 43,273-acre wildfire.

Walking in the scorched forest, it felt like a graveyard.

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

🚨 zombie wells alert 🚨

“In sampling 2,573 wells in the Greater Wattenberg…the study found natural gas outside the protective barrier in 96% of the wells and benzene and other chemicals…The likely causes…are compromised steel casings or cement seals.”
https://t.co/fzp2Eb8hix

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

Salton Sea news: Samantha Arthur of Audubon California will be the state’s next Salton Sea czar👇🏼

[Wade Crowfoot @WadeCrowfoot]

On #WorldWaterDay2023, great news🗞��� as @CAgovernor appoints Samantha Arthur to lead our efforts to stabilize the #SaltonSea. She has delivered complex env restoration projects across California & has served our Water Commission. A seasoned leader for this critical priority! 1/2

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

"Building codes can either accelerate local carbon emission reductions or lock in fossil fuel infrastructure...When code changes nibble at utilities’ market share, however, the corporations bite back."

@npbowlin/@highcountrynews chews on the meaning of @atmosenergy's opposition.

[Nick Bowlin @npbowlin]

My town in Colorado tried to electrify its building codes. A large natural gas utility thought otherwise, fighting the proposal in public and behind the scenes at city hall. Other towns in the West have run into similar opposition. For @highcountrynews

https://t.co/dUHDQJn8XS

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

"The answers the company did give raise concerns that its YieldStar software may play a role in driving rent inflation in some of the country’s biggest markets."

an update to incredibly important reporting on @RealPage by @hvogell/@propublica 👇
https://t.co/eA3xl9BxL6

[El Paso Times @elpasotimes]

#BREAKING: President Joe Biden will set Castner Range in El Paso as national monument https://t.co/vKhXbDdJzB

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

No lies detected.

[Kylie Mohr @thatsMohrlikeit]

*this kicker tho* “I think a lot the allure of this type of program is it’s easier to talk about how do we get more than to talk about who has to use less." https://t.co/G8sxesPuxP

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

Although, with Gorsuch's understanding of federal law in Indian Country, and with Coney Barrett trying to stick to the actual question at hand, perhaps the all-important Winters Doctrine will emerge unscathed, which would be a huge relief to Native American tribes.

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

"Justice Amy Coney Barrett could be the decisive vote in a US Supreme Court dispute about what steps, if any, the federal government must take to help the Navajo Nation deal with a southwest water crisis."

Meanwhile, Kavanaugh is commenting on water issues not before the court.

[Kimberly Robinson @KimberlyRobinsn]

Individuals on the Navajo reservation use seven gallons of water a day compared to an average individual use of 88 to 100 gallons nationwide, the tribe’s lawyer told the justices. https://t.co/sWqQXjpjx6

[Janet Wilson @janetwilson66]

Chatted #lithium and other renewables with @CAGovernor Newsom today, who's unfazed by bank collapses, rural blowback. "We're as dumb as we want to be."
https://t.co/mDNyZWddVW

[Elyssa Cherney @ElyssaCherney]

🧵1/ NEW with @smmills1960: The Art Institute of Chicago is slow to address concerns that religious artifacts from South & Southeast Asia -- given to the collection by influential museum donors -- may have been looted from their countries of origin https://t.co/prTwDJbpxP

[Inside Climate News @insideclimate]

The first full @IPCC_CH update since 2014 shows that the 1.5 degree Celsius goal established in the Paris agreement is still achievable, but will require a "quantum leap in climate action."

https://t.co/UYteDYqDRV

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Earth is likely to cross a critical global warming threshold within the next decade unless drastic changes are made, a major UN report said.
https://t.co/Mkb8l3Ry24

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

@kimondegreef Maaaybe

[Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley]

NEW: In Navajo Nation, many don't have access to piped water, just one difficulty facing the tribe in a quest for water access that's now before the Supreme Court.

Exclusive reporting from Navajo Nation/photos by @schischillyy
https://t.co/llm2hMb5Xe via @nbcnews

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

Now THAT is one way to spend taxpayer dollars…

[Mark Olalde @MarkOlalde]

@kimondegreef Is your phone background a gold tailings pile…?

[The Continent @thecontinent_]

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 120 of The Continent

[Ryan Randazzo @utilityreporter]

Utility @SRPconnect is proposing a pumped storage reservoir near Apache Lake to work like a giant electric battery on the power grid
https://t.co/LI10YsUkWW